Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's tandem

Men's tandem
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue White City Stadium
Dates July 13–15
Competitors 34 from 7 nations
Medalists
   France (FRA)
André Auffray, Maurice Schilles
   Great Britain (GBR)
Frederick Hamlin, Horace Johnson
   Great Britain (GBR)
Colin Brooks, Walter Isaacs
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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 2000 metre tandem was one of seven track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. The time limit for the race was 4 minutes.

Contents

Results

First round

The fastest team in each of the seven heats and the fastest second-place team overall advanced to the semifinals.

The competition was held on Monday, July 13, 1908 starting at 4.15 p.m. (first four heats) and at 5.15 p.m. (remaining three heats).

Heat 1
Place Cyclists Nation Time
1 Colin Brooks
Walter Isaacs		  Great Britain (GBR) 3:09.4
2 Alwin Boldt
Hermann Martens		  Germany (GER) 5 lengths
behind
Heat 2
Place Cyclists Nation Time
1 Frederick Hamlin
Horace Johnson		  Great Britain (GBR) 3:14.8
2 Maurice Texier
Pierre Texier		  France (FRA) 4 lengths
behind
Heat 3
Place Cyclists Nation Time
1 Max Götze
Otto Götze[1]		  Germany (GER) 2:55.6[2]
2 Charles Avrillon
Joseph Guyader		  France (FRA) bare wheel
3 C. McKaig
E. C. Piercy		  Great Britain (GBR) 2 lengths
behind 2nd
Heat 4
Place Cyclists Nation Time
1 Léon Coeckelberg
Jean Patou		  Belgium (BEL) 2:25.0
2 John L. Barnard
Arthur Rushen		  Great Britain (GBR) 1.2 lengths
behind
3 Andrew Hansson
Gustaf Westerberg		  Sweden (SWE) beaten off
Heat 5
Place Cyclists Nation Time
1 André Auffray
Maurice Schilles		  France (FRA) 3:11.4
2 Philipus Frylink
Floris Venter		  South Africa (RSA) 1 length
behind
Heat 6
Place Cyclists Nation Time
1 François Bonnet
Octave Lapize		  France (FRA) 3:06.8
2 R. Jolly
J. Norman		  Great Britain (GBR) 6 lengths
behind
Heat 7
Place Cyclists Nation Time
1 John Matthews
Leonard Meredith		  Great Britain (GBR) 2:43.2
2 Gaston Dreyfus
André Poulain		  France (FRA) 2 lengths
behind
3 Frederick McCarthy
William Morton		  Canada (CAN) beaten off

Semifinals

The fastest team in each heat as well as the fastest second-place team overall advanced to the final.

The competition was held on Wednesday, July 15, 1908 starting at 5 p.m.

Semifinal 1
Place Cyclists Nation Time
1 Frederick Hamlin
Horace Johnson		  Great Britain (GBR) 2:42.2
2 Colin Brooks
Walter Isaacs		  Great Britain (GBR) 6 lengths
behind
3 Max Götze
Otto Götze[1]		  Germany (GER) Unknown
4 Léon Coeckelberg
Jean Patou		  Belgium (BEL) Unknown
Semifinal 2
Place Cyclists Nation Time
1 André Auffray
Maurice Schilles		  France (FRA) 2:46.2
2 John Matthews
Leonard Meredith		  Great Britain (GBR) 1 length
behind
3 John L. Barnard
Arthur Rushen		  Great Britain (GBR) Unknown
4 François Bonnet
Octave Lapize		  France (FRA) Unknown

Final

The final was held on Wednesday, July 15, 1908 at 5.45 p.m.

Final
Place Cyclists Nation Time
1 André Auffray
Maurice Schilles		  France (FRA) 3:07.6
2 Frederick Hamlin
Horace Johnson		  Great Britain (GBR) Unknown
3 Colin Brooks
Walter Isaacs		  Great Britain (GBR) Unknown

Notes

  1. ^ a b The official report shows as second team member Karl Neumer.
  2. ^ Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich". http://olympic.w.interia.pl/. Retrieved 10 January 2007.  (Polish) The Official Report gives a time of 2:05.6; however, from its descriptions of second place finishes that time would have resulted in Avrillon and Guyader advancing to the semifinals as the fastest losers. Wudarski gives a time of 2:55.6, which fits with other results and may indicate a transcription or typographical error in the Official Report.

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