Cycling at the 1998 Commonwealth Games

Cycling at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Cycling at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Track: Cheras Velodrome; Road: Shah Alam Circuit
Location	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dates	11 to 21 September 1998
	← 1994 2002 →

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)

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

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

[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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