The men's team sprint at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 15 at the Laoshan Velodrome.
After delivering three superb rides in the process, British trio Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny, and Jamie Staff defeated France by a 0.523-second margin to dominate the team sprint final with a gold-medal time in 43.128. The French threesome of Grégory Baugé, Kévin Sireau, and Arnaud Tournant took home the silver in 43.651, while Germany's René Enders, Maximilian Levy, and Stefan Nimke edged out the Aussies by eight hundredths of a second for the bronze in 44.014.
Competition format
A men's team sprint race consists of a three-lap race between two teams of three cyclists, starting on opposite sides of the track. Each member of the team must lead for one of the laps.
The tournament consisted of an initial qualifying round. The top eight teams advanced to the first round. The first round comprised head-to-head races based on seeding (1st vs. 8th, 2nd vs. 7th, etc.). The winners of those four heats advanced to the medal round, with the two fastest winners competing in the gold medal final and the two slower winners facing off for bronze.
Schedule All times are China standard time (UTC+8). Date Time RoundFriday, August 15, 2008 16:15 Qualifications and final
Results Qualification
Rank Heat Country Cyclists Result Notes 1 6 Chris HoyJason KennyJamie Staff 42.950 Q, 2 7 Grégory BaugéKévin SireauArnaud Tournant 43.541 Q 3 6 René EndersMaximilian LevyStefan Nimke 44.197 Q 4 7 Theo BosTeun MulderTim Veldt 44.213 Q 5 5 Daniel EllisMark FrenchShane Kelly 44.335 Q 6 1 Kiyofumi NagaiTomohiro NagatsukaKazunari Watanabe 44.454 Q 7 3 Azizulhasni AwangJosiah NgMohd Rizal Tisin 44.752 Q 8 2 Michael BlatchfordAdam DuvendeckGiddeon Massie 45.346 Q 9 4 Feng YongLi WenhaoZhang Lei 45.556 10 3 Athanasios MantzouranisVasileios ReppasPanagiotis Voukelatos 45.645 11 2 Tomáš BábekAdam PtáčníkDenis Špička 45.678 12 5 Sergey PolynskiyDenis DmitrievSergey Kucherov 45.964 13 1 Maciej BieleckiKamil KuczyńskiŁukasz Kwiatkowski 45.266
First round
Rank Heat Country Cyclists Result Notes 1 4 Chris HoyJason KennyJamie Staff 43.034 Q 2 3 Grégory BaugéKévin SireauArnaud Tournant 43.656 Q 3 2 René EndersMaximilian LevyStefan Nimke 43.699 Q 4 1 Daniel EllisMark FrenchShane Kelly 44.090 Q, OC 5 1 Theo BosTeun MulderTim Veldt 44.212 6 2 Kiyofumi NagaiTomohiro NagatsukaKazunari Watanabe 44.437 NR 7 3 Azizulhasni AwangJosiah NgMohd Rizal Tisin 44.822 8 4 Michael BlatchfordAdam DuvendeckGiddeon Massie 45.423
Medal round Bronze medal final Rank Country Cyclists Result Notes René EndersMaximilian LevyStefan Nimke 44.014 4 Daniel EllisMark FrenchShane Kelly 44.022 OC
Gold medal final Rank Country Cyclists Result Notes Chris HoyJason KennyJamie Staff 43.128 Grégory BaugéKévin SireauArnaud Tournant 43.651
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