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The women's sprint event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place from 6 to 8 August 2021 at the Izu Velodrome. [1] [2] 30 cyclists from 18 nations competed. [3] Canadian rider Kelsey Mitchell won gold, with Olena Starikova from Ukraine and Lee Wai-sze from Hong-Kong completing the medal positions. The medals were presented by Yasuhiro Yamashita ...
1.4.5 Sprint, individual. 1.4.6 Sprint, team. 2 Discontinued events. Toggle Discontinued events subsection. 2.1 Track cycling. ... List of Olympic medalists in ...
2024 Olympic Games: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France [7] 500 m time trial (progression) 33.952 Anna Meares Australia: 20 August 2004 2004 Olympic Games: Athens, Greece [8] Team sprint (500 m) (progression) ♦31.804 Bao Shanju Zhong Tianshi China 2 August 2021 2020 Olympic Games: Izu, Japan [9] Team sprint (750 m) (progression) ♦45.186 Katy ...
The 2012 Summer Olympics were the first at which men and women competed in the same number of events in all cycling disciplines, including track cycling, which previously had more men's and fewer women's events than the 2008 programme. [1] However, women have shorter distances for some events.
The sprint or match sprint is a track cycling event involving between two and four riders, though it is usually run as a one-on-one match race between opponents who, unlike in the individual pursuit, start next to each other. Men's sprint has been an Olympic event at every games except 1904 (which had races at seven different distances) and ...
This is an overview of the progression of the Olympic track cycling record of the women's 500 m team sprint as recognised by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). [ 1 ] The women's 500 m team sprint was introduced at the 2012 Summer Olympics .
The women's cycling sprint at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place at the London Velopark from 5 to 7 August. [ 1] Anna Meares from Australia won the gold medal and Victoria Pendleton of Great Britain took silver. China 's Guo Shuang won the bronze.
Team sprint. The team sprint (also sometimes known as the Olympic sprint) is a track cycling event. Despite its name, it is not a conventional cycling sprint event – it is a three-rider team time trial held over three laps of a velodrome. The riders use a standard track bicycle which are single-speed with no freewheel or brakes.