Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's tandem

The men's 2000 metre tandem was one of seven track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Each nation could enter up to 6 teams of 2.[1]

Men's tandem
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
VenueWhite City Stadium
DatesJuly 13–15
Competitors34 from 7 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  France (FRA)
André Auffray, Maurice Schilles
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Great Britain (GBR)
Frederick Hamlin, Horace Johnson
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Great Britain (GBR)
Charlie Brooks, William Isaacs
1920 →

Competition format edit

The tandem race was a sprint-style race with teams of 2 on tandem bicycles. The distance was 2000 metres, or approximately 3.3 laps of the 660-yard track. The time limit for the race was 4 minutes. The competition was held over three rounds (heats, semifinals, and a final). The first round consisted of 7 heats of 2 or 3 teams each, with the winning team in each heat as well as the fastest second-place team advancing to the semifinals. There were 2 semifinals of 4 teams each; the winning team in each semifinal as well as the faster second-place team advanced to the final. The final featured 3 teams, so all finalists received medals.

Results edit

First round edit

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 edit

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes
1 Charlie Brooks
William Isaacs
  Great Britain (GBR) 3:09.4 Q
2 Alwin Boldt
Max Triebsch
  Germany (GER) 5 lengths
behind

Heat 2 edit

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes
1 Frederick Hamlin
Horace Johnson
  Great Britain (GBR) 3:14.8 Q
2 Marc Texier
Paul Texier
  France (FRA) 4 lengths
behind

Heat 3 edit

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes
1 Max Götze
Otto Götze[2]
  Germany (GER) 2:55.6[3] Q
2 Charles Avrillon
Joseph Guyader
  France (FRA) bare wheel
3 Cecil McKaig
Edward Piercy
  Great Britain (GBR) 2 lengths
behind 2nd

Heat 4 edit

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes
1 Léon Coeckelberg
Jules Patou
  Belgium (BEL) 2:25.0 Q
2 John Barnard
Arthur Rushen
  Great Britain (GBR) 1.2 lengths
behind
q
3 Andrew Hansson
Gustaf Westerberg
  Sweden (SWE) beaten off

Heat 5 edit

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes
1 André Auffray
Maurice Schilles
  France (FRA) 3:11.4 Q
2 Philipus Frylink
Floris Venter
  South Africa (RSA) 1 length
behind

Heat 6 edit

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes
1 François Bonnet
Octave Lapize
  France (FRA) 3:06.8 Q
2 Robert Jolly
John Norman
  Great Britain (GBR) 6 lengths
behind

Heat 7 edit

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes
1 John Matthews
Leonard Meredith
  Great Britain (GBR) 2:43.2 Q
2 Gaston Dreyfus
André Poulain
  France (FRA) 2 lengths
behind
3 Frederick McCarthy
William Morton
  Canada (CAN) beaten off

Semifinals edit

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 edit

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes
1 Frederick Hamlin
Horace Johnson
  Great Britain (GBR) 2:42.2 Q
2 Charlie Brooks
William Isaacs
  Great Britain (GBR) 6 lengths
behind
q
3 Max Götze
Otto Götze[2]
  Germany (GER) Unknown
4 Léon Coeckelberg
Jules Patou
  Belgium (BEL) Unknown

Semifinal 2 edit

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes
1 André Auffray
Maurice Schilles
  France (FRA) 2:46.2 Q
2 John Matthews
Leonard Meredith
  Great Britain (GBR) 1 length
behind
3 John Barnard
Arthur Rushen
  Great Britain (GBR) Unknown
4 François Bonnet
Octave Lapize
  France (FRA) Unknown

Final edit

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

Rank Cyclists Nation Time
  André Auffray
Maurice Schilles
  France (FRA) 3:07.6
  Frederick Hamlin
Horace Johnson
  Great Britain (GBR) Unknown
  Charlie Brooks
William Isaacs
  Great Britain (GBR) Unknown

Notes edit

  1. ^ Official Report, p. 33.
  2. ^ a b The official report shows as second team member Karl Neumer.
  3. ^ Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 10 January 2007. 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.

Sources edit

  • Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
  • De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Cycling 1908". Accessed 7 April 2006. Available electronically at [1] Archived 2014-05-05 at the Wayback Machine.