2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's sprint explained

The Women's Sprint was one of the nine women's events at the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Ballerup, Denmark.

27 cyclists from 14 countries participated in the contest. After the qualifying heats, the fastest 24 riders were to advance to the 1/16 finals.

The first rider in each of the 12 heats advanced to the second round. There was no repechage for this round.

The first rider from each of the six Second Round heats advanced to the Quarterfinals and the second placed riders from a repechage to determine the other two riders that competed the quarterfinals.

The first rider in each quarterfinal advanced to the semifinals and the 4 losing athletes faced a race for 5th-8th place.

The qualifying, first round, second round, second round repechages and quarterfinals took place on 26 March. The Semifinals and Finals took place on 27 March.

Results

Qualifying

Rank	Time	Notes
1	10.918	Q
2	11.030	Q
3	11.077	Q
4	11.078	Q
5	11.105	Q
6	11.120	Q
7	11.135	Q
8	11.202	Q
9	11.242	Q
10	11.250	Q
11	11.340	Q
12	11.356	Q
13	11.385	Q
14	11.408	Q
15	11.426	Q
16	11.442	Q
17	11.444	Q
18	11.464	Q
19	11.518	Q
20	11.559	Q
21	11.564	Q
22	11.571	Q
23	11.600	Q
24	11.700	Q
25	11.922
26	11.995
27	12.084

1/16 Finals

Heat	Rank	Time	Notes
1	1	11.914	Q
1	2
2	1	11.682	Q
2	2
3	1	12.114	Q
3	2
4	1	11.782	Q
4	2
5	1	11.418	Q
5	2
6	1	11.874	Q
6	2
7	1	11.794	Q
7	2
8	1	11.577	Q
8	2
9	1	11.693	Q
9	2
10	1	11.898	Q
10	2
11	1	11.848	Q
11	2		REL
12	1	11.813	Q
12	2

1/8 Finals

Heat	Rank	Time	Notes
1	1	11.804	Q
1	2
2	1	11.717	Q
2	2
3	1	11.763	Q
3	2
4	1	11.660	Q
4	2
5	1	11.536	Q
5	2
6	1	11.552	Q
6	2

1/8 Finals Repechage

Heat	Rank	Time	Notes
1	1	11.837	Q
1	2
1	3
2	1	11.600	Q
2	2
2	3

Quarterfinals

Heat	Rank	Race 1	Race 2	Decider	Notes
1	1	11.322	11.353		Q
1	2
2	1	11.587	REL	11.704	Q
2	2		11.982
3	1	11.755	11.843		Q
3	2
4	1	11.671	15.102		Q
4	2

Race for 5th-8th Places

Rank	Name	Nation	Time
5			11.757
6
7
8

Semifinals

Heat	Rank	Race 1	Race 2	Decider	Notes
1	1		11.274	11.485	Q
1	2	11.480
2	1	11.316	11.248		Q
2	2

Finals

Rank	Race 1	Race 2
Gold Medal Races
	11.611	11.543

Bronze Medal Races
	11.377	11.416
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