Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's sprint

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The men's 200m Sprint at the 2004 Summer Olympics (Cycling) was an event that consisted of cyclists making three laps around the track. Only the time for the last 200 metres of the 750 metres covered was counted as official time.

1 Records
2 Results
3 Final classfication

[edit] Records

World Record	Theo Bos (NED)	Moscow Russia	9.772 s	December 16, 2006
Olympic Record	Gary Neiwand (AUS)	Atlanta United States	10.129 s	July 24, 1996

[edit] Results

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Ryan Bayley Australia	Theo Bos Netherlands	Rene Wolff Germany

Australian Ryan Bayley defeated current world champion, Theo Bos from the Netherlands, when the sprinting gold medal was taken to a third decider race. In the race for the bronze Rene Wolff from Germany defeated Laurent Gane from France.

[edit] Qualifying round

Times and average speeds are listed. Q denotes qualification for the next round.

After Tomohiro Nagatsuka dropped out of competition following the round, all of the cyclists following him advanced one position. This allowed Stefan Nimke to compete in the 1/16 final despite having originally placed 19th.

Pos.	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed	Qualify
1.	Ryan Bayley	Australia	10.177 s	70.747 km/h	Q
2.	Theo Bos	Netherlands	10.214 s	70.491 km/h	Q
3.	Rene Wolff	Germany	10.230 s	70.381 km/h	Q
4.	Mickael Bourgain	France	10.264 s	70.148 km/h	Q
5.	Laurent Gane	France	10.271 s	70.100 km/h	Q
6.	Ross Edgar	United Kingdom	10.381 s	69.357 km/h	Q
7.	Damian Zielinski	Poland	10.441 s	68.958 km/h	Q
8.	Jose Villanueva	Spain	10.446 s	68.925 km/h	Q
9.	Sean Eadie	Australia	10.454 s	68.873 km/h	Q
10.	Lukasz Kwiatkowski	Poland	10.462 s	68.820 km/h	Q
11.	Josiah Ng	Malaysia	10.515 s	68.473 km/h	Q
12.	Teun Mulder	Netherlands	10.565 s	68.149 km/h	Q
13.	Barry Forde	Barbados	10.597 s	67.943 km/h	Q
14.	Tomohiro Nagatsuka	Japan	10.646 s	67.631 km/h	Q
15.	Kim Chi-Bum	Republic of Korea	10.673 s	67.459 km/h	Q
16.	Jaroslav Jerabek	Slovakia	10.758 s	66.926 km/h	Q
17.	Yang Hee-Chun	Republic of Korea	10.955 s	65.723 km/h	Q
18.	Alois Kankovsky	Czech Republic	10.956 s	65.717 km/h	Q
19.	Stefan Nimke	Germany	11.338 s	63.503 km/h

[edit] 1/16 final

The 1/16 round consisted of nine heats of two riders each. Winners advanced to the next round, losers competed in the 1/16 repechage.

Heat	Time	Pos	Rider
Heat 1	10.510 s
		1	Ryan Bayley	Australia
		2	Stefan Nimke	Germany
Heat 2	10.799 s
		1	Theo Bos	Netherlands
		2	Alois Kankovsky	Czech Republic
Heat 3	11.104 s
		1	Rene Wolff	Germany
		2	Yang Hee-Chun	Korea
Heat 4	10.988 s
		1	Mickael Bourgain	France
		2	Jaroslav Jerbek	Slovakia
Heat 5	11.166 s
		1	Laurent Gane	France
		2	Kim Chi-Bum	Korea
Heat 6	10.768 s
		1	Ross Edgar	Great Britain
		2	Barry Forde	Barbados
Heat 7	10.833 s
		1	Damian Zielinski	Poland
		2	Teun Mulder	Netherlands
Heat 8	11.234 s
		1	Jose Villanueva	Spain
		2	Josiah Ng	Malaysia
Heat 9	11.025 s
		1	Sean Eadie	Australia
		2	Lukasz Kwiatkowski	Poland

[edit] 1/16 repechage

The nine defeated cyclists from the 1/16 round took part in the 1/16 repechage. They raced in three heats of three riders each. The winner of each heat rejoined the nine victors of the 1/16 round in advancing to the 1/8 round

Heat	Time	Speed	Pos	Rider
Heat 1	10.731 s	67.095 km/h
			1	Barry Forde	Barbados
			2	Lukasz Kwiatkowski	Poland
			3	Stefan Nimke	Germany
Heat 2	10.740 s	67.039 km/h
			1	Teun Mulder	Netherlands
			2	Kim Chi-Bum	South Korea
			3	Alois Kankovsky	Czech Republic
Heat 3	11.006 s	65.418 km/h
			1	Josiah Ng	Malaysia
			2	Yang Hee-Chun	South Korea
			3	Jaroslav Jerabek	Slovakia

[edit] 1/8 final

The 1/8 round consisted of six matches, each pitting two of the twelve remaining cyclists against each other. The winners advanced to the quarterfinals, with the losers getting another chance in the 1/8 repechage.

Heat	Time	Pos	Rider
Heat 1	10.520 s
		1	Ryan Bayley	Australia
		2	Josiah Ng	Malaysia
Heat 2	11.164 s
		1	Theo Bos	Netherlands
		2	Teun Mulder	Netherlands
Heat 3	10.548 s
		1	Rene Wolff	Germany
		2	Barry Forde	Barbados
Heat 4	10.936 s
		1	Mickael Bourgain	France
		2	Sean Eadie	Australia
Heat 5	10.772 s
		1	Laurent Gane	France
		2	Jose Villanueva	Spain
Heat 6	10.848 s
		1	Damian Zielinski	Poland
		2	Ross Edgar	Great Britain

[edit] 1/8 repechage

The six cyclists defeated in the 1/8 round competed in the 1/8 repechage. Two heats of three riders were held. Winners rejoined the victors from the 1/8 round and advanced to the quarterfinals. The four other riders competed in the 9th through 12th place classification.

Heat	Time	Speed	Pos	Rider
Heat 1	10.906 s	66.018 km/h
			1	Ross Edgar	Great Britain
			2	Josiah Ng	Malaysia
			3	Sean Eadie	Australia
Heat 2	11.294 s	63.750 km/h
			1	Barry Forde	Barbados
			2	Teun Mulder	Netherlands
			REL	Jose Villanueva	Spain

[edit] Classification 9-12

The 9-12 classification was a single race with all four riders that had lost in the 1/8 repechage taking place. The winner of the race received 9th place, with the others taking the three following places in order.

Pos.	Rider	Country	Time
1	Jose Villanueva	Spain	11.063 s
2	Teun Mulder	Netherlands
3	Josiah Ng	Malaysia
4	Sean Eadie	Australia

[edit] Quarterfinals

The eight riders that had advanced to the quarterfinals competed pairwise in four matches. Each match consisted of two races, with a potential third race being used as a tie-breaker if each cyclist won one of the first two races. All four quarterfinals matches were decided without a third race. Winners advanced to the semifinals, losers competed in a 5th to 8th place classification.

Quarterfinal	Time	Pos	Rider
QF 1	1st race: 10.733 s 2nd race: 10.807 s
		1	Ryan Bayley	Australia
		2	Barry Forde	Barbados
QF 2	1st race: 11.024 s 2nd race: 10.905 s
		1	Theo Bos	Netherlands
		2	Ross Edgar	Great Britain
QF 3	1st race: 10.556 s 2nd race: 10.749 s
		1	Rene Wolff	Germany
		2	Damian Zielinski	Poland
QF 4	1st: 11.018 s 2nd race: 10.876 s
		1	Laurent Gane	France
		2	Mickael Bourgain	France

[edit] Classification 5-8

The 5-8 classification was a single race with all four riders that had lost in the quarterfinals taking place. The winner of the race received 5th place, with the others taking the three following places in order.

Pos.	Rider	Country	Time
1	Ross Edgar	Great Britain	11.214 s
2	Barry Forde	Barbados
3	Damian Zielinski	Poland
4	Mickael Bourgain	France

[edit] Semifinals

The four riders that had advanced to the semifinals competed pairwise in two matches. Each match consisted of two races, with a potential third race being used as a tie-breaker if each cyclist won one of the first two races. Both semifinals matches were decided without a third race. Winners advanced to the finals, losers competed in the bronze medal match.

Semi	Time	Pos	Rider
SF 1	1st race: 10.546 s 2nd race: 10.638 s
		1	Ryan Bayley	Australia
		2	Laurent Gane	France
SF 2	1st race: 10.502 s 2nd race: 10.639 s
		1	Theo Bos	Netherlands
		2	Rene Wolff	Germany

[edit] Bronze medal match

The bronze medal match was contested in a set of three races, with the winner of two races declared the winner. Since Rene Wolff won both of the first two races, the third was not run.

Pos.	Rider	Country	Time
1	Rene Wolff	Germany	1st: 10.677 s 2nd: 10.612 s
2	Laurent Gane	France

[edit] Final

The final was a best-of-three match. Bos took a lead in the series when he won the first race, but Bayley defeated him in the second race. The third race was decisive and Bayley came out on top again.

Pos.	Rider	Country	Time
1	Ryan Bayley	Australia	2nd: 10.661 s 3rd: 10.743 s
2	Theo Bos	Netherlands	1st: 10.710 s

[edit] Final classfication

Pos.	Athlete	NOC
1.	Ryan Bayley	Australia
2.	Theo Bos	Netherlands
3.	Rene Wolff	Germany
4.	Laurent Gane	France
5.	Ross Edgar	United Kingdom
6.	Barry Forde	Barbados
7.	Damian Zielinski	Poland
8.	Mickael Bourgain	France
9.	Jose Villanueva	Spain
10.	Teun Mulder	Netherlands
11.	Josiah Ng	Malaysia
12.	Sean Eadie	Australia
	Lukasz Kwiatkowski	Poland
	Stefan Nimke	Germany
	Kim Chi-Bum	Republic of Korea
	Alois Kankovsky	Czech Republic
	Yang Hee-Chun	Republic of Korea
	Jaroslav Jerabek	Slovakia
withdrew	Tomohiro Nagatsuka	Japan

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