Cycling at the 1998 Commonwealth Games

Cycling at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
VenueTrack: Cheras Velodrome
Road: Shah Alam Circuit
LocationKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dates11 to 21 September 1998

Cycling at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was the 15th appearance of Cycling at the Commonwealth Games. The events were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 11 to 21 September 1998.[1] Changes in events saw the road team time trial replaced by the individual time trial.

The track events were held at the Cheras Velodrome[2] (built in 1986)[3] and the road events were held at the Shah Alam Circuit.[4]

Australia topped the cycling medal table, by virtue of winning eight gold medals.[5]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Malaysia)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Australia85316
2 Canada3137
3 New Zealand2237
4 England0426
5 Malaysia*0101
6 Barbados0011
 South Africa0011
Totals (7 entries)13131339

Medallists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men
Road time trial Eric Wohlberg
 Canada 		Stuart O'Grady
 Australia 		David George
 South Africa
Road race Jay Sweet
 Australia 		Nor Effandy Rosli
 Malaysia 		Eric Wohlberg
 Canada
1000m individual sprint Darryn Hill
 Australia 		Sean Eadie
 Australia 		Barry Forde
 Barbados
1,000m time trial Shane Kelly
 Australia 		Jason Queally
 England 		Joshua Kersten
 Australia
4000m individual pursuit Brad McGee
 Australia 		Luke Roberts
 Australia 		Matt Illingworth
 England
4000m team pursuit  Australia
Brad McGee
Brett Lancaster
Luke Roberts
Michael Rogers
Timothy Lyons 		 England
Bradley Wiggins
Colin Sturgess
Jon Clay
Matt Illingworth
Robert Hayles 		 New Zealand
Brendon Cameron
Greg Henderson
Lee Vertongen
Timothy Carswell
Scratch race Michael Rogers
 Australia 		Shaun Wallace
 England 		Timothy Carswell
 New Zealand
Points race Glen Thomson
 New Zealand 		Rob Hayles
 England 		Greg Henderson
 New Zealand
Women
Road time trial Anna Wilson
 Australia 		Linda Jackson
 Canada 		Kathy Watt
 Australia
Road race Lyne Bessette
 Canada 		Susy Pryde
 New Zealand 		Anna Wilson
 Australia
1,000m individual sprint Tanya Dubnicoff
 Canada 		Michelle Ferris
 Australia 		Lori-Ann Muenzer
 Canada
3000m individual pursuit Sarah Ulmer
 New Zealand 		Alayna Burns
 Australia 		Yvonne McGregor
 England
Points race Alayna Burns
 Australia 		Sarah Ulmer
 New Zealand 		Annie Gariepy
 Canada

Results

[6][7]

Men's individual 184km road race

Pos Athlete Time
1 Jay Sweet 4:31:56
2 Nor Effandy Rosli 4:31:56
3 Eric Wohlberg 4:31:56
4 David George 4:31:57
5 Paul Esposti 4:31:59
6 Brian Walton 4:32:16
7 Chris Lillywhite 4:32:19
8 Scott McGrory 4:32:19
9 Czeslaw Lukaszewicz 4:32:19
10 Mohd Mahazir Hamad 4:32:19
11 Robert Holden 4:32:19
12 Conor Henry 4:32:19
13 Chris Walker 4:32:27
14 Gordon Fraser 4:32:27
15 Stuart O'Grady 4:32:27
16 Neil Teggart 4:32:27
17 Brendon Vesty 4:32:27
18 Jacques Fullard 4:32:27
19 Elliott Hubbard 4:32:27
20 Chris Newton 4:32:27
21 Julian Winn 4:32:27
22 John Tanner 4:32:27
23 Sylvain Beauchamp 4:32:27
24 Denis Easton 4:33:46
25 Scott Guyton 4:33:46
26 Malcolm Lange 4:34:01
27 Tommy Evans 4:34:40
28 Samuel Firby 4:34:46
29 Matt White 4:37:32
30 Kumaresan Murugayan 4:40:55

Men's road 42 km individual time trial

Pos Athlete Time
1 Eric Wohlberg 53:15
2 Stuart O'Grady 53:30
3 David George 53:56
4 Matt White 54:05
5 James Perry 54:09
6 Stuart Dangerfield 54:13
7 Chris Newton 54:16
8 Matthew Anand 55:08
9 Peter Rogers 55:17
10 Robbie Hunter 55:23
11 James Gladwell 55:37
12 David McCann 55:52
13 Lee Vertongen 56:17
14 Patrick Haberland 56:24
15 Samuel Firby 56:32
16 Johannes Heymans 56:46
17 Matt Postle 57.02
18 Elliott Hubbard 57:13
19 Robert Holden 57:30
20 Shahrul Neeza Mohd Razali 57:36
21 David Kinja Njau 57:59
22 Richard Moore 58:30
23 Duke Perrigoff Merren 58:55
24 Mohd Mahazir Hamad 58:58
25 Frank Bombosch 59:44
26 Scott Hamilton 59:56
27 Jacques Celliers 1:00:22
28 John Boone 1:01:08
29 Crispine Omondi 1:01:26

Men's One kilometre time trial

Pos Athlete Time
1 Shane Kelly 1:04.018
2 Jason Queally 1:04.427
3 Joshua Kersten 1:04.618
4 Daniel Day 1:05.442
5 Craig MacLean 1:06.020
6 Matt Sinton 1:06.211
7 Darren McKenzie-Potter 1:06.309
8 Michael Phillips 1:06.525
9 Chris Hoy 1:06.541
10 Douglas Baron 1:07.259
11 Hayden Godfrey 1:07.284
12 Alwyn McMath 1:08.246
13 John Cumberbatch 1:09.422
14 Shawn Kelly 1:09.476
15 Clinton Grant 1:09.601
16 Kadiron Jamil 1:10.112
17 Stefan Baraud 1:11.305
18 Ah Thiam Wong 1:13.145
19 Michael Vernon 1:13.188
20 Neil Teggart 1:13.795

Men's 1,000m match sprint

Pos Athlete
1 Darryn Hill
2 Sean Eadie
3 Barry Forde
4 Peter Jacques
5 Craig MacLean
6 Daniel Day
7 Jean-Pierre van Zyl
8 Stephen Alfred

Quarter finals

  • Hill bt MacLean 2-0 (11.186, 10.954)
  • Eadie bt Van Zyl 2-0 (10.987, 11.019)
  • Forde bt Alfred 2-1 (11.464, 11.068, 11.100)
  • Jacques bt Day 2-1 (11.283, 10.981 11.260)

Semi finals

  • Hill bt
  • Eadie bt

Bronze

  • Forde bt Jacques 2-1 (12.334, 12.055 11.499)

Final

  • Hill bt Eadie 2-0 (10.533, 10.618

Men's 4,000m individual pursuit

Pos Athlete
1 Bradley McGee
2 Luke Roberts
3 Matt Illingworth
4 Bradley Wiggins
5 Lee Vertongen
6 Fraser Macmaster
7 Brendon Cameron
8 James Perry

Qualifying (top 8)

  • McGee 4.33.138, Illingworth 4.38.764, Roberts 4.39.59, Wiggins 4.43.095, Vertongen 4.43.124, Macmaster 4.45.550, Cameron 4.47.291, Perry 4.47.586 (top 4 to semi-final)

Semi finals

  • McGee bt Wiggins
  • Roberts bt Illingworth

Bronze

  • Illingworth bt Wiggins 3.03.950

Final

  • McGee bt Roberts 4.30.594 / overtaken

Men's team pursuit

Pos Team
1 McGee, Lancaster, Roberts, Rogers, Lyons
2 Wiggins, Sturgess, Clay, Illingworth, Hayles
3 Cameron, Henderson, Vertongen, Carswell
4 Owen, Williams, Pritchard, Sheppard, Jones
5 Perry, Lange, Welgemoed, Dale
6 Faizal Izuan, Fadzillah, Razli Hardi, Lee

Semi finals

  • England bt New Zealand 4.14.189 / 4.15.536
  • Australia bt Wales 4.19.905 /4.27.930

Bronze

  • New Zealand bt Wales 4.17.933 / 4.28.644

Final

  • Australia bt England 4.13.405 / 4.14.298

Men's points race

Pos Athlete Points
1 Glen Thomson 35
2 Rob Hayles 29
3 Greg Henderson 24
4 Brian Walton 18
5 Michael Rogers 17
6 James Perry 12
7 Tim Carswell 10
8 Luke Roberts 8
9 Malcolm Lange 8
10 Paul Sheppard 5
11 Huw Pritchard 4
12 Kumaresan Murugayan 1
13 Shaun Wallace 17 -1
14 Stephen Pate 15 -1
15 Colin Sturgess 13 -1
16 Richard Dickie 8 -1
17 Moolman Welgemoed 3 -1
18 Alun Owen 3 -1
19 Mark Richard Kelly 1 -1

Men's 20km scratch race

Pos Athlete Time
1 Michael Rodgers 25:18.340
2 Shaun Wallace 25:18.340
3 Tim Carswell 25:18.340

Women's 92 km road race

Pos Athlete Time
1 Lyne Bessette 2:24:59
2 Susy Pryde 2:24:59
3 Anna Wilson 2:24:59
4 Louise Jones 2:26:35
5 Kathy Watt 2:26:38
6 Linda Jackson 2:26:39
7 Tracey Gaudry 2:29:41
8 Juanita Feldhahn 2:29:47
9 Joanna Lawn 2:29:47
10 Jacinta Coleman 2:29:48
11 Elizabeth Tadich 2:33:14
12 Andrea Hannos 2:33:14
13 Annie Gariepy 2:33:14
14 Sally Boyden 2:33:14
15 Kimberly Langton 2:33:14
16 Anriette Schoeman 2:33:14
17 Melanie Szubrycht 2:33:14
18 Ruth Ellway 2:33:14
19 Ronel Van Wyk 2:33:14
20 Rebecca Bailey 2:33:14
21 Bianca Netzler 2:33:14
22 Angela Hunter 2:33:14
23 Anne Samplonius 2:33:14
24 Maria Hassan 2:37:47
25 Karin Avenant 2:48:41

Women's 28 km individual time trial

Pos Athlete Time
1 Anna Wilson 37:34
2 Linda Jackson 38:34
3 Kathy Watt 38:39
4 Yvonne McGregor 39.45
5 Megan Hughes 39.49
6 Anne Samplonius 39.54
7 Juanita Feldhahn 39.55
8 Maria Lawrence 40.48
9 Andrea Hannos 41.56
10 Louise Jones 41.58
11 Claire Greenwood 42.39
12 Ceris Gilfillan 42.41
13 Bianca Netzler 42.50
14 Ronel Van Wyk 43.10
15 Zoe Anderson 43.43
16 Susanne Munns 45.12
17 Conny Kleynhans 45.13
18 Noor Asrina Sulaiman 46.30
19 Sisilia Gravelle 52.47
20 Claire Thoms 54.55

Women's 3,000m individual pursuit

Pos Athlete
1 Sarah Ulmer
2 Alayna Burns
3 Yvonne McGregor
4 Lucy Tyler-Sharman
5 Karen Barrow
6 Rawea Greenwood
7 Megan Hughes
8 Andrea Hannos

Qualifying (top 8)

  • Burns 3.40.389, Tyler-Sharman 3.41.015, Ulmer 3.42.063, McGregor 3.43.885, Barrow 3.45.824, Greenwood 3.50.723, Hughes 3.54.300, Hannos 3.54.864 (top 4 to semi-final)

Semi finals

  • Burns bt McGregor
  • Ulmer bt Tyler-Sharman

Bronze

  • McGregor bt Tyler-Sharman 3.53.977 / walkover

Final

  • Ulmer bt Burns 3.41.667 / 3.42.968

Women's 1,000m match sprint

Pos Athlete
1 Tanya Dubnicoff
2 Michelle Ferris
3 Lori-Ann Muenzer
4 Lyndelle Higginson
5 Fiona Ramage
6 Mohd Janis Halimah
7 Melanie Szubrycht
8 Tracey van Niekerk

Quarter finals

  • Dubnicoff bt Janis 2-0 (12.840, 12.704)
  • Ferris bt Szubrycht 2-0 (12.866, 13.023)
  • Muenzer bt Van Niekerk 2-0 (12.549, 12.110)
  • Higginson bt Ramage 2-0 (12.192, 13.133)

Semi finals

  • Dubnicoff bt
  • Ferris bt

Bronze

  • Muenzer bt Higginson 2-0 (12.086, 12.157)

Final

  • Dubnicoff bt Ferris 2-0 (12.061, 12.053)

Women's points race

Pos Athlete Points
1 Alayna Burns 34
2 Sarah Ulmer 31
3 Annie Gariepy 19
4 Karen Barrow 13
5 Megan Hughes 13
6 Andrea Hannos 13
7 Sally Boyden 8
8 Melanie Szubrycht 4
9 Louise Jones 3
10 Michelle Ward 3
11 Fiona Ramage 0

References

  1. ^ "Medal Standings Kuala Lumpur 1998". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
  2. ^ "In Cycling". Birmingham Mail. 18 September 1998. p. 85. Retrieved 28 February 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "Goodbye to Cheras Velodrome". Malay Mail. 23 March 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
  4. ^ "Hughes misses out". South Wales Echo. 15 September 1998. p. 35. Retrieved 28 February 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Cycling". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
  6. ^ "Commonwealth Games Results". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 14 September 1998. p. 28. Retrieved 27 February 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ "Commonwealth Games Track Competition". Cyclin News. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
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