Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint

Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road race		men		women
Time trial		men		women
Track cycling
Individual pursuit		men		women
Team pursuit		men
Sprint		men		women
Team sprint		men
Time trial		men		women
Points race		men		women
Keirin		men
Madison		men
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The men's 200m Sprint at the 2000 Summer Olympics (Cycling) was an event that consisted of cyclists making three laps around the track. Only the time for the last 200 metres of the 750 metres covered was counted as official time. The races were held on Monday, 18 September, Tuesday, 19 September, and Wednesday, 20 September 2000 at the Dunc Gray Velodrome.

Records

World and Olympic records prior to the Games.

World Record	9.865 s	Curt Harnett	Can	Bogotá, Colombia	28 September 1995
Olympic Record	10.129 s	Gary Neiwand	AUS	Atlanta, United States	24 July 1996

Medalists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Marty Nothstein,  United States	Florian Rousseau,  France	Jens Fiedler,  Germany

Results

• Q denotes qualification by place in heat.
• q denotes qualification by overall place.
• REL denotes relegated- due to being passed
• DNS denotes did not start.
• DNF denotes did not finish.
• DQ denotes disqualification.
• NR denotes national record.
• OR denotes Olympic record.
• WR denotes world record.
• PB denotes personal best.
• SB denotes season best.

Qualifying round

Held Monday, 18 September.
Times and average speeds are listed. The faster 18 riders advanced to the first round.

Pos.	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed	Qualify
1.	Marty Nothstein	United States	10.166 s	70.844 km/h	q
2.	Laurent Gane	France	10.243 s	70.292 km/h	q
3.	Florian Rousseau	France	10.277 s	70.059 km/h	q
4.	Jens Fiedler	Germany	10.287 s	69.991 km/h	q
5.	Viesturs Bērziņš	Latvia	10.343 s	69.612 km/h	q
6.	Pavel Buran	Czech Republic	10.370 s	69.431 km/h	q
7.	Craig MacLean	Great Britain	10.459 s	68.840 km/h	q
8.	Sean Eadie	Australia	10.520 s	68.441 km/h	q
9.	Darryn Hill	Australia	10.526 s	68.402 km/h	q
10.	Jan Lepka	Slovakia	10.530 s	68.378 km/h	q
11.	Jan van Eijden	Germany	10.540 s	68.311 km/h	q
12.	Jose Villanueva	Spain	10.556 s	68.208 km/h	q
13.	Tomohiro Nagatsuka	Japan	10.595 s	67.957 km/h	q
14.	Shinichi Ota	Japan	10.603 s	67.905 km/h	q
15.	Anthony Peden	New Zealand	10.649 s	67.612 km/h	q
16.	Nikolaos Angelidis	Greece	10.745 s	67.008 km/h	q
17.	Julio Cesar Herrera	Cuba	10.893 s	66.097 km/h	q
18.	Christian Arrue	United States	10.903 s	66.037 km/h	q
19.	Bartlomiej Saczuk	Poland	11.106 s	64.830 km/h

1/16 Round

Held Monday, 18 September
The 1/16 round consisted of nine heats of two riders each. Winners advanced to the next round, losers competed in the repechage.

Heat	Pos	Athlete	NOS	Time	Ave. Speed	Qualify
1	1	Marty Nothstein	United States	10.956 s	65.717 km/h	Q
	2	Christian Arrue	United States
2	1	Laurent Gane	France	11.054 s	65.135 km/h	Q
	2	Julio Cesar Herrera	Cuba
3	1	Florian Rousseau	France	10.865 s	66.268 km/h	Q
	2	Nikolaos Angelidis	Greece
4	1	Jens Fiedler	Germany			Q
	2	Anthony Peden	New Zealand	DNS
5	1	Viesturs Bērziņš	Latvia	11.008 s	65.407 km/h	Q
	2	Shinichi Ota	Japan
6	1	Pavel Buran	Czech Republic	11.102 s	64.853 km/h	Q
	2	Tomohiro Nagatsuka	Japan
7	1	Jose Villanueva	Spain			Q
	2	Craig MacLean	Great Britain	REL
8	1	Jan van Eijden	Germany			Q
	2	Sean Eadie	Australia	REL
9	1	Darryn Hill	Australia	10.938 s	65.826 km/h	Q
	2	Jan Lepka	Slovakia

1/16 repechage

Held Monday, 18 September
The nine defeated cyclists from the first round took part in the 1/16 repechage. They raced in three heats of three riders each. The winner of each heat rejoined the nine victors of the first round in advancing to the 1/8 round

Heat	Pos	Athlete	NOS	Time	Ave. Speed	Qualify
1	1	Christian Arrue	United States	11.186 s	64.366 km/h	Q
	2	Jan Lepka	Slovakia
	3	Tomohiro Nagatsuka	Japan
2	1	Craig MacLean	Great Britain	10.951 s	65.747 km/h	Q
	2	Shinichi Ota	Japan
	3	Julio Cesar Herrera	Cuba
3	1	Sean Eadie	Australia	11.805 s	60.991 km/h	Q
	2	Nikolaos Angelidis	Greece

1/8 final

Held Monday, 18 September. The 1/8 round consisted of six matches, each pitting two of the twelve remaining cyclists against each other. The winners advanced to the quarterfinals, with the losers getting another chance in the 1/8 repechage.

Heat	Pos	Athlete	NOS	Time	Ave. Speed	Qualify
1	1	Marty Nothstein	United States	10.799 s	66.673 km/h	Q
	2	Sean Eadie	Australia
2	1	Laurent Gane	France	11.049 s	65.164 km/h	Q
	2	Craig MacLean	Great Britain
3	1	Florian Rousseau	France	10.906 s	66.019 km/h	Q
	2	Christian Arrue	United States
4	1	Jens Fiedler	Germany	10.682 s	67.403 km/h	Q
	2	Darryn Hill	Australia
5	1	Jan van Eijden	Germany	10.682 s	67.403 km/h	Q
	2	Viesturs Bērziņš	Latvia
6	1	Jose Villanueva	Spain	11.382 s	63.236 km/h	Q
	2	Pavel Buran	Czech Republic

1/8 repechage

Held Monday, 18 September.
The six cyclists defeated in the 1/8 round competed in the 1/8 repechage. Two heats of three riders were held. Winners rejoined the victors from the 1/8 round and advanced to the quarterfinals. The four other riders competed in the 9th through 12th place classification.

Heat	Pos	Athlete	NOS	Time	Ave. Speed	Qualify
1	1	Sean Eadie	Australia	11.414 s	63.080 km/h	Q
	2	Pavel Buran	Czech Republic
	3	Darryn Hill	Australia
2	1	Craig MacLean	Great Britain	11.108 s	64.818 km/h	Q
	2	Viesturs Bērziņš	Latvia
	3	Christian Arrue	United States

Classification 9-12

Held 19 September
The 9-12 classification was a single race with all four riders that had lost in the 1/8 repechage taking place. The winner of the race received 9th place, with the others taking the three following places in order.

Pos	Athlete	NOS	Time	Ave. Speed
1	Pavel Buran	Czech Republic	11.078 s	64.994 km/h
2	Viesturs Bērziņš	Latvia
3	Christian Arrue	United States
4	Darryn Hill	Australia	DNS

Quarterfinals

Held Tuesday, 19 September.
The eight riders that had advanced to the quarterfinals competed pairwise in four matches. Each match consisted of two races, with a potential third race being used as a tie-breaker if each cyclist won one of the first two races. All four quarterfinals matches were decided without a third race. Winners advanced to the semifinals, losers competed in a 5th to 8th place classification.

Heat	Pos	Athlete	NOS	Time 1	Time 2	Decider	Qualify
1	1	Marty Nothstein	United States	10.888 s	10.973 s		Q
	2	Craig MacLean	Great Britain
2	1	Laurent Gane	France	10.648 s	10.833 s		Q
	2	Sean Eadie	Australia
3	1	Florian Rousseau	France	10.744 s	10.781 s		Q
	2	Jose Villanueva	Spain
4	1	Jens Fiedler	Germany	10.966 s	10.904 s		Q
	2	Jan van Eijden	Germany

Classification 5-8

Held Wednesday, 20 September
The 5-8 classification was a single race with all four riders that had lost in the quarterfinals taking place. The winner of the race received 5th place, with the others taking the three following places in order.

Pos	Athlete	NOS	Time	Ave. Speed
1	Jan van Eijden	Germany	11.040 s	65.217 km/h
2	Jose Villanueva	Spain
3	Sean Eadie	Australia
4	Craig MacLean	Great Britain

Semifinals

Held Wednesday, 20 September.
The four riders that had advanced to the semifinals competed pairwise in two matches. Each match consisted of two races, with a potential third race being used as a tie-breaker if each cyclist won one of the first two races. Winners advanced to the finals, losers competed in the bronze medal match.

Heat	Pos	Athlete	NOS	Time 1	Time 2	Decider	Qualify
1	1	Marty Nothstein	United States	10.930 s	10.903 s		Q
	2	Jens Fiedler	Germany
2	1	Florian Rousseau	France		10.877 s	11.536 s	Q
	2	Laurent Gane	France	10.822 s

Medal Finals

Held Wednesday, 20 September.

Bronze medal match

The bronze medal match was contested in a set of three races, with the winner of two races declared the winner.

Pos	Athlete	NOS	Time 1	Time 2	Decider
1	Jens Fiedler	Germany	10.732 s	10.918 s
2	Laurent Gane	France

Gold medal match

The gold medal match was contested in a set of three races, with the winner of two races declared the winner.

Pos	Athlete	NOS	Time 1	Time 2	Decider
1	Marty Nothstein	United States	10.874 s	11.066 s
2	Florian Rousseau	France

Final classfication

	Final results
Pos.	Athlete	NOC
1.	Marty Nothstein	United States
2.	Florian Rousseau	France
3.	Jens Fiedler	Germany
4.	Laurent Gane	France
5.	Jan van Eijden	Germany
6.	Jose Villanueva	Spain
7.	Sean Eadie	Australia
8.	Craig MacLean	Great Britain
9.	Pavel Buran	Czech Republic
10.	Viesturs Bērziņš	Latvia
11.	Christian Arrue	United States
12.	Darryn Hill	Australia

References

• Official Olympic Report