Hot, muggy and smoggy conditions greeted riders in the mountainbike olympic test event, with riders collecting information about the course which is classed as very challenging with short steep climbs and semi technical descents.

Kashi Leuchs rode well to finish 4th in the mens event.

Results

Elite men, 40 km

1 Christoph Sauser (Switzerland)                                  2.11.53 (18.197 km/h)
2 Bart Brentjens (Netherlands)                                       2.13
3 Nicolas Carlos Coloma (Spain)                         3.56

4 Kashi Leuchs (New Zealand)                                         5.34

5 Kenji Takeya (Japan)                                               6.36
6 Cedric Ravanel (France)                                            7.26
7 Bas Peters (Netherlands)                                          10.13
8 Todd Wells (United States Of America)                             16.40
9 Chun Hing Chan (Hong Kong, China)
10 Zhiqiang Duan (People's Republic of China)

Elite women, 28 km

1 Ying Liu (People's Republic of China)                           1.45.54 (15.864 km/h)
2 Sabine Spitz (Germany)                                             1.24
3 Lene Byberg (Norway)                                               1.34
4 Georgia Gould (United States Of America)                           2.38
5 Jingjing Wang (People's Republic of China)                         3.36
6 Maja Wloszczowska (Poland)                                         5.07
7 Catharine Pendrel (Canada)                                         5.26
8 Anna Szafraniec (Poland)                                           5.44
9 Magdalena Sadlecka (Poland)                                        6.21
10 Chengyuan Ren (People's Republic of China)                        9.29
DNF Rosara Joseph (New Zealand)