Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's team sprint

The men's cycling team sprint at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place at the London Velopark on 2 August.

The Great Britain team, Philip Hindes, Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny, won the gold medal in world record-breaking time. Grégory Bauge, Michaël D'Almeida and Kévin Sireau from France took silver, and Germany's René Enders, Maximilian Levy and Robert Förstemann won bronze.

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.

Great Britain's team consisting of Philip Hindes, Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny won the gold medal with a time of 42.6 seconds, breaking the world record. France won the silver medal and Germany took bronze.

Schedule All times are British Summer Time. Date Time RoundThursday, 2 August 2012 16:15 Qualifications and final

Results

Qualification

Rank Heat Country Cyclists Result Notes 1 5 Philip HindesChris HoyJason Kenny 43.065 Q, OR 2 4 Grégory BaugéMichaël D'AlmeidaKévin Sireau 43.097 Q 3 4 Matthew GlaetzerShane PerkinsScott Sunderland 43.377 Q 4 3 Sergey BorisovDenis DmitrievSergey Kucherov 43.681 Q, NR 5 5 René EndersRobert FörstemannMaximilian Levy 43.710 Q 6 2 Cheng ChangsongZhang LeiZhang Miao 43.751 Q 7 3 Eddie DawkinsEthan MitchellSimon van Velthooven 44.175 Q 8 2 Seiichiro NakagawaYudai NittaKazunari Watanabe 44.324 Q 9 1 Hersony CanelónCésar MarcanoAngel Polgar 44.654NR 10 1 Maciej BieleckiDamian ZielińskiKamil Kuczyński 44.712

First round

Rank Heat Country Cyclists Result Notes 1 4 Philip HindesChris HoyJason Kenny 42.747Q, WR, OR 2 3 Grégory BaugéMichaël D'AlmeidaKévin Sireau 42.991Q, NR 3 1 René EndersRobert FörstemannMaximilian Levy 43.178 Q 4 2 Matthew GlaetzerShane PerkinsScott Sunderland 43.261 Q, OC 5 3 Eddie DawkinsEthan MitchellSimon van Velthooven 43.495 NR 6 2 Cheng ChangsongZhang LeiZhang Miao 43.505 AS 7 1 Sergey BorisovDenis DmitrievSergey Kucherov 43.909 8 4 Seiichiro NakagawaYudai NittaKazunari Watanabe 43.964 NR

Finals

Bronze medal final Rank Country Cyclists Result Notes René EndersRobert FörstemannMaximilian Levy 43.209 4 Matthew GlaetzerShane PerkinsScott Sunderland 43.355

Gold medal final Rank Country Cyclists Result Notes Philip HindesChris HoyJason Kenny 42.600WR, OR Grégory BaugéMichaël D'AlmeidaKévin Sireau 43.013

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