Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's team sprint explained

The men's team sprint event in cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics was contested by twelve teams. The races were held on Sunday, 17 September at the Dunc Gray Velodrome.[1]

Medalists

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Laurent Gane
Florian Rousseau
Arnaud Tournant

Chris Hoy
Craig MacLean
Jason Queally

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.

RankNOCRidersTimeSpeedQualify
1 Laurent Gane, Florian Rousseau, Arnaud Tournant44.425 s 60.777 km/hq
2 Chris Hoy, Craig MacLean, Jason Queally44.659 s 60.458 km/hq
3 Sean Eadie, Darryn Hill, Gary Neiwand44.719 s 60.377 km/hq
4 Lampros Vasilopoulos, Dimitrios Georgalis, Kleanthis Barngas45.207 s 59.725 km/hq
5 Narihiro Inamura, Yuichiro Kamiyama, Tomohiro Nagatsuka45.406 s 59.464 km/hq
6 Viesturs Bērziņš, Ainārs Ķiksis, Ivo Lakus45.589 s 59.225 km/hq
7 Peter Balazak, Jan Lepka, Jaroslav Jerebek45.659 s 59.134 km/hq
8 Jens Fiedler, Soeren Lausberg, Stefan Nimke45.701 s 59.080 km/hq
9 José Antonio Escuredo, Jose Villanueva, Salvador Meliá45.799 s 58.953 km/h
10 Konrad Czajkowski, Grzegorz Krejner, Marcin Mientki46.186 s 58.459 km/h
11 Pavel Buráň, Martin Polak, Ivan Vrba46.276 s 58.346 km/h
12 Christian Arrue, John Bairos, Jonas Carney46.337 s 58.269 km/h

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.

HeatPlaceNOCRidersTimeSpeedQualifyRank
1 1Lampros Vasilopoulos, Dimitrios Georgalis, Kleanthis Bargkas45.079 s59.895 km/hQ4
2Narihiro Inamura, Yuichiro Kamiyama, Tomohiro Nagatsuka45.264 s 59.650 km/h
2 1Sean Eadie, Darryn Hill, Gary Neiwand44.745 s 60.342 km/hQ3
2Viesturs Bērziņš, Ainārs Ķiksis, Ivo Lakus46.625 s 58.033 km/h
3 1Chris Hoy, Craig MacLean, Jason Queally44.571 s 60.651 km/hQ2
2Peter Balazak, Jan Lepka, Jaroslav Jerebek45.523 s 59.311 km/h
4 1Laurent Gane, Florian Rousseau, Arnaud Tournant44.302 s 60.945 km/hQ1
2Jens Fiedler, Soeren Lausberg, Stefan Nimke45.537 s 59.292 km/h

Medal round

HeatPlaceNOCRidersTimeSpeed
Bronze
Medal
1Sean Eadie, Darryn Hill, Gary Neiwand45.161 s59.786 km/h
2Lampros Vasilopoulos, Dimitrios Georgalis, Kleanthis Bargkas45.332 s 59.561 km/h
Gold
Medal
1Laurent Gane, Florian Rousseau, Arnaud Tournant44.233 s 61.040 km/h
2Chris Hoy, Craig MacLean, Jason Queally44.680 s 60.430 km/h

Final classification

The final classification was

Place NOC
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cycling at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Team Sprint . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417202839/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/CYC/mens-team-sprint.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 8 March 2020.