The women's sprint

Sprint (cycling)

The sprint or match sprint is a track cycling event involving between 2 and 4 riders, though they are usually run as a one-on-one match race between opponents who, unlike in the individual pursuit, start next to each other.- Racing style :...

event in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics had 18 events in three disciplines:*Road cycling, held at the Athens historic centre and in Vouliagmeni Olympic Centre ....

 consisted of a series of head-to-head matches in which cyclists made three laps around the track. Only the time for the last 200 metres of the 750 metres covered was counted as official time.

Medalists

Records

World Record	Olga Slyusareva (RUS)	Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent... , Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	10.831 s	April 25, 1993
Olympic Record	Michelle Ferris (AUS)	Atlanta, United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	11.212 s	July 24, 1996

Qualifying round

Each cyclist covered the course individually in the qualifying round. The times were used to seed the twelve riders for the 1/8 finals.

Rank	Name	Time (s)	Avg. Speed (km/h)
1		11.291	63.767
2		11.364	63.357
3		11.364	63.357
4		11.380	63.268
5		11.400	63.157
6		11.430	62.992
7		11.456	62.849
8		11.597	62.085
9		11.622	61.951
10		11.646	61.823
11		11.655	61.776
12		12.457	57.798

1/8 final

The twelve cyclists competed in six matches of two cyclists each. Winners advanced to the quarterfinals while the defeated riders received a second chance in the 1/8 repechage.

Heat	Time	Pos	Rider	Country
Heat 1	11.927 s
		1	Anna Meares	Australia
		2	Evegenia Radanova	Bulgaria
Heat 2	11.846 s
		1	Natallia Tsylinskaya	Belarus
		2	Katrin Meinke	Germany
Heat 3	11.714 s
		1	Tamilla Abassova	Russia
		2	Victoria Pendleton	Great Britain
Heat 4	11.881 s
		1	Lori-Ann Muenzer	Canada
		2	Jennie Reed	United States
Heat 5	11.849 s
		1	Daniela Greluis Larreal Chirinos	Venezuela
		2	Yvonne Hijgenaar	Netherlands
Heat 6	11.872
		1	Simona Krupeckaitė	Lithuania
		2	Svetlana Grankovskaya	Russia

1/8 repechage

The 1/8 repechage consisted of two heats of three cyclists, with the six riders that had been defeated in the 1/8 final competing. The winner of each of the heats returned to the main competition and advanced to the quarterfinal. The losers of the repechage competed in the 9th to 12th place classification.

Heat	Time	Speed	Pos	Rider	Country
Heat 1	12.015 s	59.925 km/h
			1	Svetlana Grankovskaya	Russia
			2	Jennie Reed	United States
			3	Evgenia Radanova	Bulgaria
Heat 2	12.132 s	59.347 km/h
			1	Katrin Meinke	Germany
			2	Yvonne Hijgenaar	Netherlands
			3	Victoria Pendleton	Great Britain

Classification 9-12

The 9-12 classification was one race in which all four losers from the 1/8 repechage competed. The winner of the classification took 9th place, with the following three places going to the other cyclists in order.

Pos	Rider	Country	Time	Speed
1	Victoria Pendleton	Great Britain	12.699 s	56.697 km/h
2	Jennie Reed	United States
3	Yvonne Hijgenaar	Netherlands
4	Evgenia Radanova	Bulgaria

Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals pitted the eight cyclists against each other in four pairwise matches. Each match was a best-of-three race competition. Winners advanced to the semifinals while the losers competed in the 5th to 8th place classification.

Heat	Time	Pos	Rider	Country
Heat 1	1st race: 11.916 s 2nd race: 12.048 s
		1	Anna Meares	Australia
		2	Katrin Meinke	Germany
Heat 2	1st race: 11.945 s 2nd race: 12.085 s
		1	Svetlana Grankovskaya	Russia
		2	Natallia Tsylinskaya	Belarus
Heat 3
	1st race: 11.993 s 3rd race: 11.914 s	1	Tamilla Abassova	Russia
	2nd race: 12.632 s	2	Simona Krupeckaitė	Lithuania
Heat 4	1st race: 12.064 s 2nd race: 11.888 s
		1	Lori-Ann Muenzer	Canada
		2	Daniela Greluis Larreal Chirinos	Venezuela

Classification 5-8

The 5-8 classification was one race in which all four losers from the quarterfinals competed. The winner of the classification took 5th place, with the following three places going to the other cyclists in order.

Pos	Rider	Country	Time	Speed
1	Natallia Tsylinskaya	Belarus	11.364 s	63.357 km/h
2	Katrin Meinke	Germany
DNF	Simona Krupeckaitė	Lithuania
DSQ	Daniela Greluis Larreal Chirinos	Venezuela

Semifinals

The semifinals were again best-of-three matches. Winners advanced to the final, while losers competed for the bronze medal.

Heat	Time	Pos	Rider	Country
SF 1
	2nd race: 12.101 s 3rd race: 12.185 s	1	Lori-Ann Muenzer	Canada
	1st race: 11.802 s	2	Anna Meares	Australia
SF 2
	2nd race: 11.965 s 3rd race: 11.894 s	1	Tamilla Abassova	Russia
	1st race: 11.893 s	2	Svetlana Grankovskaya	Russia

Bronze medal match

The bronze medal match was best-of-three.

Pos.	Rider	Country	Time
1	Anna Meares Anna Meares Anna Maree Meares, OAM is an Australian track cyclist.She has been the 500m TT world champion twice, and a gold medalist at the Commonwealth and Olympic Games.-Biography:...	Australia	1st race: 12.042 s 2nd race: 11.822 s
2	Svetlana Grankovskaya	Russia

Final

The final was a best-of-three match; Muenzer won the first two races to eliminate the need for a third.

Pos.	Rider	Country	Time
1	Lori-Ann Muenzer Lori-Ann Muenzer Lori-Ann Muenzer is a Canadian track cyclist and gold medal winning athlete at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Match Sprint. She attended Runnymede Collegiate Institute...	Canada	1st race: 12.126 s 2nd race: 12.140 s
2	Tamilla Abassova Tamilla Abassova Tamilla Rashidovna Abassova is a Russian racing cyclist who won the silver medal in the women's sprint event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and the silver medal at the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in the same event.-External links:* *...	Russia

Final classification

The final classification was