Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint
The men's sprint at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 19 at the Laoshan Velodrome.
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Venue | Laoshan Velodrome | ||||||||||||
Dates | August 17 (preliminaries—2nd round) August 18 (quarterfinals—final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 21 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 10.228/10.216 | ||||||||||||
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This track cycling event consisted of numerous rounds. The competition began with a time trial over 200 metres. The top 18 cyclists in that qualifying round were seeded into the 1/16 finals. There, they raced one-on-one. The nine winners advanced to the 1/8 finals, while the nine losers were sent to the first repechage. In the repechage, the cyclists were placed in heats of three cyclists apiece; winners moved back into the main competition by advancing into the 1/8 finals.
The twelve cyclists in the 1/8 finals again competed one-on-one. The six winners advanced to the quarterfinals, with the six losers getting another chance at the second repechage. This repechage also consisted of three-cyclist heats, with the two winners moving on to the quarterfinals.
Beginning with the quarterfinals, the head-to-head competitions switched to a best-of-three format. That format was also used for the semifinals and final. In addition, the bronze medal competition was a best-of-three match between the semifinal losers. The classification race for 5th to 8th places was a single race with all four cyclists competing.[1]
Preliminaries
Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics | ||
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Road cycling | ||
Road race | men | women |
Time trial | men | women |
Track cycling | ||
Individual pursuit | men | women |
Team pursuit | men | |
Sprint | men | women |
Team sprint | men | |
Points race | men | women |
Keirin | men | |
Madison | men | |
Mountain biking | ||
Cross-country | men | women |
BMX | ||
BMX | men | women |
[2] 200 metre time trial, with the top 18 riders advancing.
Rank | Rider | Country | Time | Average Speed (km/h) |
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1 | Chris Hoy | 9.815 OR | 73.357 | |
2 | Jason Kenny | 9.857 | 73.044 | |
3 | Stefan Nimke | 10.064 | 71.542 | |
4 | Kévin Sireau | 10.098 | 71.301 | |
5 | Mickaël Bourgain | 10.123 | 71.125 | |
6 | Maximilian Levy | 10.199 | 70.595 | |
7 | Azizulhasni Awang | 10.272 | 70.093 | |
8 | Roberto Chiappa | 10.314 | 69.808 | |
9 | Theo Bos | 10.318 | 69.780 | |
10 | Mark French | 10.337 | 69.652 | |
11 | Kazunari Watanabe | 10.346 | 69.592 | |
12 | Ryan Bayley | 10.362 | 69.484 | |
13 | Teun Mulder | 10.373 | 69.410 | |
14 | Tsubasa Kitatsuru | 10.391 | 69.290 | |
15 | Michael Blatchford | 10.470 | 68.767 | |
16 | Zhang Lei | 10.497 | 68.591 | |
17 | Łukasz Kwiatkowski | 10.504 | 68.545 | |
18 | Denis Dmitriev | 10.565 | 68.149 | |
19 | Adam Ptáčník | 10.569 | 68.123 | |
20 | Vasileios Reppas | 10.966 | 65.657 | |
21 | Daniel Novikov | 11.187 | 64.360 |
First round
[3] The eighteen qualifying cyclists from the preliminary round were paired, 1 vs. 18, 2 vs. 17, and so on, in head-to-head 200 metre matches, with the winners advancing to the second round and the losers to the first round repechage.
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Name | Time | Average speed (km/h) |
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First round repechage
[4] The nine losers from the first round were put into three three-man 200 metre matches, with the winner of each advancing to the next round.
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Second round
[5] The twelve cyclists who qualified this far were paired off again in head-to-head sprint matches,
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Second round repechage
[6] The six cyclists who lost in the second round were matched into two three-man 200 metre races, with the winner of each advancing to the next round.
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Quarterfinals
[7] The eight cyclists qualified this far were paired for a best two-out-of-three series of 200 metre races. None of the pairings required a third race.
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Semifinals
[8] The four cyclists qualified this far were paired again for a best two-out-of-three series of 200 metre races.
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9th—12th place classification race
[9] During the same session as the semifinals, the four cyclists who were eliminated in the second round repechage were put into a single four-man 200 metre race to determine exact placings from ninth to twelfth.
- Classification race
Name | Time | Average speed (km/h) | Rank |
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11.051 | 65.152 | 9 | |
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Finals
[10] The winners from the semifinals were paired to race for gold and silver, and the losers from that round raced for bronze. Each match was again the best two-out-of-three 200 metre races.
- Bronze medal match
Name | Time (Race 1) | Time (Race 2) | Time (Race 3) | Rank |
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11.047 | 10.560 | |||
10.666 | 4 |
- Gold medal match
Name | Time (Race 1) | Time (Race 2) | Rank |
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10.228 | 10.216 | ||
5th—8th place classification race
[11] In the same session as the finals, the four cyclists who lost in the quarterfinals were put into one four-man 200 metre race to determine exact placings from fifth to eighth.
- Classification race
Name | Time | Average speed (km/h) | Rank |
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10.719 | 67.170 | 5 | |
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