Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's sprint


The women's cycling sprint at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro took place on 14–16 August 2016.
The medals were presented by Timothy Fok, IOC member, Hong Kong and Brian Cookson, President of the UCI.

Competition format

The event is a single-elimination tournament after the qualifying phase via time trial. Each match pitted two cyclists against each other in the best-of-three races base on their seeding in the qualifying phase. Each race was three laps of the track with side-by-side starts.

Schedule

All times are Brasília Time
DateTimeRound
Sunday, 14 August 201616:00Qualifications / heats
Sunday, 14 August 201617:12First round
Monday, 15 August 201610:00Second round
Tuesday, 16 August 201610:00Quarter-finals
Tuesday, 16 August 201616:00
17:44		Semi-finals
Final

Results

Qualification

First round

;Heat 1
;Heat 3
;Heat 5
;Heat 7
;Heat 9
;Heat 2
;Heat 4
;Heat 6
;Heat 8

First round Repechage

;Heat 1
;Heat 2
;Heat 3

Second round

;Heat 1
;Heat 3
;Heat 5
;Heat 2
;Heat 4
NameTimeAvg speed
11.36063.380
+0.033+0.025

;Heat 6

Second round Repechage

;Match 1
;Match 2

9th–12th place classifications

Quarterfinals

;Heat 1
NameTime Time
11.28911.243
+0.025+0.016

; Heat 3
NameTime Time
11.22511.342
+1.139+0.232

;Heat 2
NameTime Time
11.23011.373
+0.044+0.189

;Heat 4
NameTime Time
11.40511.391
+0.033+0.007

5th–8th place classifications

Semifinals

;Heat 1
NameTime Time
11.24610.970
+0.038+0.400

;Heat 2
NameTime Time
11.30211.153
+0.065+0.089

Finals

;Bronze medal match
NameTime Time
11.23711.424
+0.087+0.007

;Gold medal match
NameTime Time
11.23711.312
+0.016+0.004