Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's sprint

The women's track cycling sprint competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics was held from 21 to 24 September. Estonian rider competing for the USSR Erika Salumäe won gold, while East Germany's Christa Luding-Rothenburger won silver and Connie Paraskevin-Young of the United States won bronze.

Competition format The competition was held as a knock-out tournament, preceded by a qualifying round.

The qualifying round had all participants complete one timed individual sprint, with their times deciding seeding in the eighth-finals. No cyclists were eliminated.

In the knock-out stages, the winners of each sprint progressed to the next round. The eighth-finals were held as four sprints with three cyclists in each, with following repechages for the second and third placed. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals were contested head-to-head, best of three sprints. In addition, a one-off four-cyclist sprint was held to decide fifth to eighth places.

Schedule Date Round 21 September Qualification 1/8 finals 1/8 repechage 22 September 1/4 finals 23 September Semi-finals Final (5th–8th places) 24 September Final

Results

Qualification Rank Name Time 1 11.527 OR 2 11.611 3 11.692 4 11.845 5 11.955 6 12.287 7 12.303 8 12.374 9 12.416 10 12.425 11 12.477 12 12.588

Eighth-finals + Heat 1 Rank Name Time Note 1 12.83 Q 2 R 3 R

+ Heat 2 Rank Name Time Note 1 12.22 Q 2 R 3 R

+ Heat 3 Rank Name Time Note 1 12.24 Q 2 R 3 R

+ Heat 4 Rank Name Time Note 1 12.11 Q 2 R 3 R

Q Qualified for next round R Qualified for repechage

Repechages + Heat 1 Name Time Note 12.80 Q

+ Heat 2 Name Time Note 12.36 Q

+ Heat 3 Name Time Note 12.65 Q

+ Heat 4 Name Time Note 13.04 Q

Q Qualified for next round

Quarter-finals + Heat 1 Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note 12.34 11.81 – Q –

+ Heat 2 Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note 12.13 11.90 – Q –

+ Heat 3 Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note 11.80 11.63 – Q –

+ Heat 4 Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note 12.85 12.94 – Q –

Q Qualified for next round

Semi-finals + Heat 1 Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note 12.38 12.22 – Q –

+ Heat 2 Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note 11.79 11.92 11.89 Q

Q Qualified for next round

Finals +Fifth to eighth places Rank Name Time Note 5 12.56 6 7 8

+Bronze medal final Rank Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note 14.07 12.41 – 4 –

+Gold medal final Rank Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note 12.00 12.58 11.68

References

External links (results, see page 213 in PDF)