Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's team sprint
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.
Medalists
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.| Rank | Team | Riders | Time |
| 1 | Mickaël Bourgain, Laurent Gané, Arnaud Tournant | 44.179 Q | |
| 2 | Jens Fiedler, Stefan Nimke, René Wolff | 44.251 Q | |
| 3 | Toshiaki Fushimi, Masaki Inoue, Tomohiro Nagatsuka | 44.355 Q | |
| 4 | José Antonio Escuredo, Salvador Melia, José Antonio Villanueva | 44.452 Q | |
| 5 | Ryan Bayley, Sean Eadie, Shane Kelly | 44.512 Q | |
| 6 | Jan Bos, Theo Bos, Teun Mulder | 44.539 Q | |
| 7 | Chris Hoy, Craig MacLean, Jamie Staff | 44.693 Q | |
| 8 | Georgios Cheimonetos, Dimitrios Georgalis, Labros Vasilopoulos | 44.986 Q | |
| 9 | Rafał Furman, Łukasz Kwiatkowski, Damian Zieliński | 45.093 | |
| 10 | Reinier Cartaya, Julio César Herrera, Ahmed López | 45.548 | |
| 11 | Adam Duvendeck, Giddeon Massie, Christian Stahl | 45.742 | |
| 12 | 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 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.| Heat | Team | Time | Rank |
| 1 | 44.320 | 4 | |
| 1 | 44.687 | 7 | |
| 2 | 44.081 | 2 | |
| 2 | 44.370 | 6 | |
| 3 | 43.955 | 1 | |
| 3 | 44.075 | 5 | |
| 4 | 44.128 | 3 | |
| 4 | 45.708 | 8 |