Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 660 yards

Men's 660 yards at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	White City Stadium
Dates	July 14–15
Competitors	48 from 9 nations
Medalists
Victor Johnson  Great Britain Émile Demangel  France Karl Neumer  Germany

Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Track cycling
660 yards	men
5000 metres	men
20 kilometres	men
100 kilometres	men
Sprint	men
Tandem	men
Team pursuit	men

The men's 660 yards was one of seven track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. It was the shortest of the events, comprising a single lap of the track. The time limit for the race was 1 minute, 10 seconds. The 1908 Games was the only time when the 660 yards event was part of the Olympic cycling program.^[1]

Results

First round

One cyclist from each of the 16 heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat 1

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Benjamin Jones	Great Britain	59 seconds
2	Dorus Nijland	Netherlands	Unknown

Heat 2

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	William Bailey	Great Britain	50.8 seconds
2	Frederick McCarthy	Canada	Unknown
3	Pierre Seginaud	France	Unknown

Heat 3

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Clarence Kingsbury	Great Britain	57.4 seconds
2	Rudolf Katzer	Germany	Unknown
3	Georgius Damen	Netherlands	Unknown

Heat 4

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Victor Johnson	Great Britain	56.2 seconds
2	Jean Patou	Belgium	Unknown
3	Richard Villepontoux	France	Unknown

Heat 5

The fifth heat was voided due to the two cyclists both exceeding the time limit of 70 seconds.

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
—	Maurice Schilles	France	No time
	Frank Shore	South Africa	No time

Heat 6

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Émile Demangel	France	59.8 seconds
2	George Summers	Great Britain	Unknown
3	Andrew Hansson	Sweden	Unknown

Heat 7

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Johannes van Spengen	Netherlands	58.2 seconds
2	Hermann Martens	Germany	Unknown
3	Joe Lavery	Great Britain	Unknown

Heat 8

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Walter Andrews	Canada	55.8 seconds
2	Joseph Werbrouck	Belgium	Unknown
3	Gaston Delaplane	France	Unknown

Heat 9

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Paul Texier	France	1:01.6
2	Thomas Passmore	South Africa	Unknown

Heat 10

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Floris Venter	South Africa	1:03.2
2	Georges Perrin	France	Unknown
3	Bruno Götze	Germany	Unknown

Heat 11

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Karl Neumer	Germany	54.2 seconds
2	W. F. Magee	Great Britain	Unknown
3	Émile Maréchal	France	Unknown
4	Antonie Gerrits	Netherlands	Unknown

Heat 12

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Ernest Payne	Great Britain	57.2 seconds
2	André Poulain	France	Unknown
3	Jean Van Benthem	Belgium	Unknown

Heat 13

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Daniel Flynn	Great Britain	55.0 seconds
2	Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein	Netherlands	Unknown
3	Paul Schulze	Germany	Unknown

Heat 14

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Lucien Renard	Belgium	55.2 seconds
2	Gaston Dreyfus	France	Unknown
3	William Morton	Canada	Unknown
4	Gerald Anderson	Great Britain	Unknown

Heat 15

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	George Cameron	United States	1:05.2
2	Léon Coeckelberg	Belgium	Unknown

Heat 16

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	André Auffray	France	58.4 seconds
2	Arthur J. Denny	Great Britain	Unknown
3	Philipus Freylinck	South Africa	Unknown

Semifinals

The fastest cyclist in each of the 4 semifinals advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Victor Johnson	Great Britain	59.2 seconds
2	Johannes van Spengen	Netherlands	Unknown
3	Paul Texier	France	Unknown
4	Walter Andrews	Canada	Unknown

Semifinal 2

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Émile Demangel	France	51.6 seconds
2	Clarence Kingsbury	Great Britain	Unknown
3	William Bailey	Great Britain	Unknown
4	Floris Venter	South Africa	Unknown

Semifinal 3

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Daniel Flynn	Great Britain	54.8 seconds
2	André Auffray	France	Unknown
3	George Cameron	United States	Unknown
4	Ernest Payne	Great Britain	Unknown

Semifinal 4

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Karl Neumer	Germany	1:05.6
2	Lucien Renard	Belgium	Unknown
3	Benjamin Jones	Great Britain	Unknown

Final

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Victor Johnson	Great Britain	51.2 seconds
2	Émile Demangel	France	Unknown
3	Karl Neumer	Germany	Unknown
4	Daniel Flynn	Great Britain	Unknown

References

Sources

• Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
• De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Cycling 1908". Accessed 7 April 2006. Available electronically at .