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

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  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

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Qualifying round

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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 Meliá, 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

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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  44.687 7
2   Japan  44.081 2
  Netherlands  44.370 6
3   Germany  43.955 1
  Great Britain  44.075 5
4   France  44.128 3
  Greece  45.708 8

Medal round

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Match Team Time Rank
Bronze   France  44.359   
  Australia  44.404 4
Gold   Germany  43.980  
  Japan  44.246  

Final classification

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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

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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. Archived from the original on 25 August 2004. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
Specific
  1. ^ a b "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.