Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint
Rank Rider Country Time Average Speed ( km/h )
1 Chris Hoy Great Britain 9.815 OR 73.357
2 Jason Kenny Great Britain 9.857 73.044
3 Stefan Nimke Germany 10.064 71.542
4 Kévin Sireau France 10.098 71.301
5 Mickaël Bourgain France 10.123 71.125
6 Maximilian Levy Germany 10.199 70.595
7 Azizulhasni Awang Malaysia 10.272 70.093
8 Roberto Chiappa Italy 10.314 69.808
9 Theo Bos Netherlands 10.318 69.780
10 Mark French Australia 10.337 69.652
11 Kazunari Watanabe Japan 10.346 69.592
12 Ryan Bayley Australia 10.362 69.484
13 Teun Mulder Netherlands 10.373 69.410
14 Tsubasa Kitatsuru Japan 10.391 69.290
15 Michael Blatchford United States 10.470 68.767
16 Zhang Lei China 10.497 68.591
17 Łukasz Kwiatkowski Poland 10.504 68.545
18 Denis Dmitriev Russia 10.565 68.149
19 Adam Ptáčník Czech Republic 10.569 68.123
20 Vasileios Reppas Greece 10.966 65.657
Preliminaries
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The men's sprint at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 19 at the Laoshan Velodrome. 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.