Kristin Armstrong won the gold medal in the women’s cycling individual time trial, covering the 29km in 37:34.82. The silver medal went to Germany’s Judith Arndt, whose 37:50.29 was 15.47 off Armstrong’s pace. The bronze medal was won by Olga Zabelinskaya of Russia in a time of 37:57.35.
Amber Neben (Irvine, Calif.) finished seventh in 38:45.17.
Armstrong becomes the first American female cyclist to successfully defend an Olympic gold medal, and only the fifth female cyclist to do it in Olympic history. It is the third Olympic gold in women’s cycling by the USA, following Armstrong’s own gold in 2008 and Connie Carpenter-Phinney’s dramatic win over teammate Rebecca Twigg in 1984.
