Olympic record progression track cycling – Men's team sprint

♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of the end of the 2016 Summer Olympics.

During the Qualification session there were several teams who rode a new best time and so had temporary the Olympic Record. They are not listed as Olympic Record holders because they did not win the qualification session. These countries who had temporary the Olympic record are:

• Heat 1:  Venezuela: Hersony Canelón, César Marcano, Angel Polgar in a time of 44.654
• Heat 2:  China: Cheng Changsong, Zhang Lei, Zhang Miao in a time of 43.751
• Heat 3:  Russia: Sergey Borisov, Denis Dmitriev, Sergey Kucherov in a time of 43.681
• Heat 4:  France: Grégory Baugé, Michaël D'Almeida, Kévin Sireau in a time of 43.097

Time	Cyclists	Location	Track	Date	Meet	Ref
43"065	Great Britain Philip Hindes Jason Kenny Chris Hoy	London - London Velopark	Indoor track	2 August 2012	2012 Summer Olympics Qualification
42"747	Great Britain Philip Hindes Jason Kenny Chris Hoy	London - London Velopark	Indoor track	2 August 2012	2012 Summer Olympics First round
42"600	Great Britain Philip Hindes Jason Kenny Chris Hoy	London - London Velopark	Indoor track	2 August 2012	2012 Summer Olympics Gold medal final
42"562	Great Britain Philip Hindes Jason Kenny Callum Skinner	Rio de Janeiro - Rio Olympic Velodrome	Indoor track	11 August 2016	2016 Summer Olympics Qualifying	[2]
42"535	New Zealand Eddie Dawkins Ethan Mitchell Sam Webster	Rio de Janeiro - Rio Olympic Velodrome	Indoor track	11 August 2016	2016 Summer Olympics First round	[3]
42"440	Great Britain Philip Hindes Jason Kenny Callum Skinner	Rio de Janeiro - Rio Olympic Velodrome	Indoor track	11 August 2016	2016 Summer Olympics Gold medal final	[4]