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 September 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

Results

Qualification

Eighth-finals

RankNameTimeNote
112.22Q
2R
3R

RankNameTimeNote
112.24Q
2R
3R

RankNameTimeNote
112.11Q
2R
3R

Q
Qualified for next round
R
Qualified for repechage

Repechages

NameTimeNote
12.36Q

NameTimeNote
12.65Q

NameTimeNote
13.04Q

Q
Qualified for next round

Quarter-finals

NameTime 1Time 2Time 3Note
12.1311.90–Q
–

NameTime 1Time 2Time 3Note
11.8011.63–Q
–

NameTime 1Time 2Time 3Note
12.8512.94–Q
–

Q
Qualified for next round

Semi-finals

NameTime 1Time 2Time 3Note
11.79
11.9211.89Q

Q
Qualified for next round

Finals

RankNameTime 1Time 2Time 3Note
14.0712.41–
4–

RankNameTime 1Time 2Time 3Note
12.0012.58
11.68