Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's team sprint

The men's team sprint event in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics was contested by twelve teams. The competition took place on 21 August at the Olympic Velodrome at the Athens Olympic Sports Complex.[1]

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
 Germany (GER)
Jens Fiedler
Stefan Nimke
René Wolff
 Japan (JPN)
Toshiaki Fushimi
Masaki Inoue
Tomohiro Nagatsuka
 France (FRA)
Mickaël Bourgain
Laurent Gané
Arnaud Tournant

Results

Qualifying round

The twelve teams of three riders raced the course without competition in the qualifying round. The top eight qualified for the first round, while the bottom four received final rankings based on their times in the qualifying round.

Rank Team Riders Time
1 France Mickaël Bourgain, Laurent Gané, Arnaud Tournant  44.179 Q 
2 Germany Jens Fiedler, Stefan Nimke, René Wolff  44.251 Q
3 Japan Toshiaki Fushimi, Masaki Inoue, Tomohiro Nagatsuka  44.355 Q
4 Spain José Antonio Escuredo, Salvador Melia, José Antonio Villanueva  44.452 Q
5 Australia Ryan Bayley, Sean Eadie, Shane Kelly  44.512 Q
6 Netherlands Jan Bos, Theo Bos, Teun Mulder  44.539 Q
7 Great Britain Chris Hoy, Craig MacLean, Jamie Staff  44.693 Q
8 Greece Georgios Cheimonetos, Dimitrios Georgalis, Labros Vasilopoulos  44.986 Q
9 Poland Rafał Furman, Łukasz Kwiatkowski, Damian Zieliński  45.093
10 Cuba Reinier Cartaya, Julio César Herrera, Ahmed López  45.548
11 United States Adam Duvendeck, Giddeon Massie, Christian Stahl  45.742
12 Slovakia Peter Bazálik, Jaroslav Jeřábek, Ján Lepka  45.978

First round

In the first round of match competition, teams raced head-to-head. The two fastest winners advanced to the finals, the other two winners competed for the bronze medal and fourth place, and losers received final rankings (fifth through eight places) based on their times in the round. In this round, Great Britain had the second fastest time overall, but lost their match to Germany and therefore did not advance to the medal round.

Heat Team Time Rank
1 Australia 44.320 4
 Spain 44.6877
2 Japan 44.0812
 Netherlands 44.3706
3 Germany 43.9551
 Great Britain 44.0755
4 France 44.1283
 Greece 45.7088

Medal round

Match Team Time Rank
Bronze France 44.359 
 Australia 44.4044
Gold Germany 43.980
 Japan 44.246

Final classification

The final classification was[1]

  1.  Germany (GER)
  2.  Japan (JPN)
  3.  France (FRA)
  4.  Australia (AUS)
  5.  Great Britain (GBR)
  6.  Netherlands (NED)
  7.  Spain (ESP)
  8.  Greece (GRE)
  9.  Poland (POL)
  10.  Cuba (CUB)
  11.  United States (USA)
  12.  Slovakia (SVK)

References

General
  • Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad (PDF). Volume 2: The Games. Athens 2004 Organising Committee for the Olympic Games S.A. November 2005. p. 307. ISBN 960-88101-8-3. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
  • "Cycling Track" (PDF) (Press release). Organising Committee for the Olympic Games Athens 2004. 21 August 2004. Retrieved 20 March 2008. Men's Team Sprint: Communiqués 7, 31, 35, 39, and 40.
  • "Athens 2004 Olympics, Cycling - Cycling Results". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
  • "Olympics 2004 | Cycling | Results | Men's team sprint cycling results". BBC Sport. 12 August 2004. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
  • "Olympics - Schedule & Results". SI.com. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
Specific
  1. "Cycling at the 2004 Athens Summer Games: Men's Team Sprint". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
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