Cycling Mountain Bike at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Weald Country Park, originally intended as the location for the mountain bike races, was replaced by Hadleigh Farm, a 700 acre property owned by the Salvation Army, after the Union Cycliste Internationale deemed that the former would not provide competitors with enough of a challenge. Men and women again contested a cross-country mountain bike event, with the men racing 34.08 km and the women 29.26 km. The men’s course was the shortest mountain bike Olympic course to date. Jaroslav Kulhavý of the Czech Republic won the men’s gold medal while the women’s race went to France’s Julie Bresset.