Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's sprint explained

Event:	Cycling, Men's individual sprint
Games:	2012 Summer
Venue:	London Velopark
Dates:	September 2
Competitors:	7
Nations:	6
Gold:	Anthony Kappes Craig MacLean
Goldnpc:	GBR
Silver:	Neil Fachie Barney Storey
Silvernpc:	GBR
Bronze:	Jose Enrique Porto Lareo José Antonio Villanueva
Bronzenpc:	ESP

The Men's individual sprint track cycling event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place on September 2 at London Velopark. The event was contested by blind and visually impaired cyclists riding with sighted pilots.

Times set in the qualification stage were used to position riders in the knock-out bracket, and subsequently to determine which riders competed for 5th and 6th positions (i.e. those in the original top 6 who did not reach the medal matches).^[1]

Qualification

width=20	Rank!	width=180	Name !	Country	Time
1	Anthony Kappes Pilot: Craig MacLean		10.050
2	Neil Fachie Pilot: Barney Storey		10.165
3	Jose Enrique Porto Lareo Pilot: José Antonio Villanueva		10.458
4	Rinne Oost Pilot: Patrick Bos		10.535
5	Tatsuyuki Oshiro Pilot: Yasufumi Ito		10.639
6	Christos Stefanakis Pilot: Konstantinos Troulinos		11.121
7	Alberto Lujan Nattkemper Pilot: Jonatan Ithurrart		11.744

Finals

Quarterfinals

Heat 1

Name	1st Ride	2nd Ride	Decider
align=left		10.935	bgcolor=wheat	REL	11.002
align=left		bgcolor=wheat		10.891	bgcolor=wheat

Heat 2

Name	1st Ride	2nd Ride
align=left		11.610	11.961
align=left		bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat

Heat 3

Name	1st Ride	2nd Ride
align=left		11.659	12.064
align=left		bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat

Semifinals

Heat 1

Name	1st Ride	2nd Ride
align=left		10.817	11.344
align=left		bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat

Heat 2

Name	1st Ride	2nd Ride
align=left		11.990	11.332
align=left		bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat

Finals

Gold medal match

Name	1st Ride	2nd Ride	Rank
align=left		10.473	10.714
align=left		bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat

Bronze medal match

Name	1st Ride	2nd Ride	Rank
align=left		10.822	10.755
align=left		bgcolor=wheat	REL	bgcolor=wheat		4

5th—6th place classification

Name	Time	Rank
align=left		12.581	5
align=left		bgcolor=wheat		6

Notes and References

Web site: LOCOG. Men's Individual B Sprint. 7 September 2012. 7 September 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120907034230/http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/cycling-track/event/men-individual-b-sprint/index.html. dead.