Men's cycling sprint at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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Venue | Rio Olympic Velodrome | ||||||||||||
Date | 12–14 August 2016 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 27 from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
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Jason Kenny | Great Britain | ||
Callum Skinner | Great Britain | ||
Denis Dmitriev | Russia |
The men's cycling sprint at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro took place on 12–14 August 2016.
The medals were presented by Barry Maister, IOC member, New Zealand and David Lappartient, Vice President of the UCI.
The event was 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.
All times are Brasília Time (UTC-03:00)