Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's team sprint

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The men's team sprint event in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics was contested by twelve teams. The competition took place on 21 August at the Olympic Velodrome at the Athens Olympic Sports Complex. [1]

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Medalists

Gold medal with cup.svg Gold Silver medal with cup.svg Silver Bronze medal with cup.svg Bronze
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)
Jens Fiedler
Stefan Nimke
René Wolff
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  (JPN)
Toshiaki Fushimi
Masaki Inoue
Tomohiro Nagatsuka
Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)
Mickaël Bourgain
Laurent Gané
Arnaud Tournant

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.

RankTeamRidersTime
1Flag of France.svg  France Mickaël Bourgain, Laurent Gané, Arnaud Tournant  44.179 Q 
2Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Jens Fiedler, Stefan Nimke, René Wolff  44.251 Q
3Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Toshiaki Fushimi, Masaki Inoue, Tomohiro Nagatsuka  44.355 Q
4Flag of Spain.svg  Spain José Antonio Escuredo, Salvador Meliá, José Antonio Villanueva  44.452 Q
5Flag of Australia.svg  Australia Ryan Bayley, Sean Eadie, Shane Kelly  44.512 Q
6Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Jan Bos, Theo Bos, Teun Mulder  44.539 Q
7Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain Chris Hoy, Craig MacLean, Jamie Staff  44.693 Q
8Flag of Greece.svg  Greece Georgios Cheimonetos, Dimitrios Georgalis, Labros Vasilopoulos  44.986 Q
9Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Rafał Furman, Łukasz Kwiatkowski, Damian Zieliński  45.093
10Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba Reinier Cartaya, Julio César Herrera, Ahmed López  45.548
11Flag of the United States.svg  United States Adam Duvendeck, Giddeon Massie, Christian Stahl  45.742
12Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia Peter Bazálik, Jaroslav Jeřábek, Ján Lepka  45.978

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. In this round, Great Britain had the second fastest time overall, but lost their match to Germany and therefore did not advance to the medal round.

HeatTeamTimeRank
1Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  44.320 4
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain  44.6877
2Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  44.0812
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands  44.3706
3Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  43.9551
Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain  44.0755
4Flag of France.svg  France  44.1283
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece  45.7088

Medal round

MatchTeamTimeRank
BronzeFlag of France.svg  France  44.359  Bronze medal icon.svg
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  44.4044
GoldFlag of Germany.svg  Germany  43.980 Gold medal icon.svg
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  44.246 Silver medal icon.svg

Final classification

The final classification was [1]

  1. Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)
  2. Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  (JPN)
  3. Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)
  4. Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS)
  5. Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain  (GBR)
  6. Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands  (NED)
  7. Flag of Spain.svg  Spain  (ESP)
  8. Flag of Greece.svg  Greece  (GRE)
  9. Flag of Poland.svg  Poland  (POL)
  10. Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba  (CUB)
  11. Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)
  12. Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia  (SVK)

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  1. 1 2 "Cycling at the 2004 Athens Summer Games: Men's Team Sprint". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.