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Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint

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Venue
  
Rio Olympic Velodrome

Competitors
  
27 from 16 nations

Date
  
12–14 August 2016

Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint

The men's cycling sprint at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro took place on 12–14 August 2016.

Contents

The medals were presented by Barry Maister, IOC member, New Zealand and David Lappartient, Vice President of the UCI.

Competition format

The event was a single-elimination tournament after the qualifying phase via time trial. Each match pitted two cyclists against each other in the best-of-three races base on their seeding in the qualifying phase. Each race was three laps of the track with side-by-side starts.

Schedule

All times are Brasília Time (UTC-03:00)

Qualification

  • A Was also an Olympic record until superseded by Jason Kenny
  • Finals

    Bronze medal match
    Gold medal match

    References

    Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint Wikipedia