Track cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics 8

The women's cycling sprint at the

2016 Olympic Games ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro d ...

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took place on 14–16 August 2016. The medals were presented by

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, Hong Kong and

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, President of the UCI.

Competition format

The event is a

single-elimination tournament A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...

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

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( UTC-03:00)

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 ;Heat 6

Second round Repechage

;Match 1 ;Match 2

9th–12th place classifications

Quarterfinals

;Heat 1 ; Heat 3 ;Heat 2 ;Heat 4

5th–8th place classifications

Semifinals

;Heat 1 ;Heat 2

Finals

;Bronze medal match ;Gold medal match

References

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