The women's sprint at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 19 at the Laoshan Velodrome.
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| Venue | Laoshan Velodrome | ||||||||||||
| Dates | August 17 (preliminaries—1st round) August 18 (quarterfinals—final) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 12 from 11 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 11.363/11.118 | ||||||||||||
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This track cycling event consisted of numerous rounds. The competition began with a time trial over 200 metres. The top 12 cyclists in that qualifying round were seeded into the 1/8 finals. There, they raced one-on-one. The six winners advanced to the quarterfinals, with the six losers getting another chance at the repechage. This repechage consisted of three-cyclist heats, with the two winners moving on to the quarterfinals.
Beginning with the quarterfinals, the head-to-head competitions switched to a best-of-three format. That format was also used for the semifinals and final. In addition, the bronze medal competition was a best-of-three match between the semifinal losers. The classification race for 5th to 8th places was a single race with all four cyclists competing.[1]
Preliminaries
edit[2] 200 metre time trial. All twelve cyclists advanced to the first round; the preliminary was purely for seeding.
| Rank | Rider | Time | Average Speed (km/h) |
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| 1 |  Victoria Pendleton (GBR)
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10.963 OR | 65.675 |
| 2 |  Guo Shuang (CHN)
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11.106 | 64.829 |
| 3 |  Anna Meares (AUS)
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11.140 | 64.631 |
| 4 |  Willy Kanis (NED)
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11.167 | 64.475 |
| 5 |  Simona Krupeckaitė (LTU)
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11.222 | 64.159 |
| 6 |  Clara Sanchez (FRA)
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11.365 | 63.352 |
| 7 |  Natallia Tsylinskaya (BLR)
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11.372 | 63.313 |
| 8 |  Jennie Reed (USA)
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11.400 | 63.157 |
| 9 |  Lisandra Guerra (CUB)
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11.462 | 62.816 |
| 10 | Yvonne Hijgenaar (NED)
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11.533 | 62.429 |
| 11 |  Svetlana Grankovskaya (RUS)
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11.544 | 62.370 |
| 12 |  Sakie Tsukuda (JPN)
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12.134 | 59.337 |
First round
edit[3] The twelve cyclists were paired based on their preliminary round rankings, 1 vs. 12, 2 vs. 11, and so on, in head-to-head 200 metre matches, with the winners advancing to the second round and the losers to the repechage.
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Repechage
edit[4] The sixlosers from the first round were put into two three-rider 200 metre matches, with the winner of each advancing to the next round.
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Quarterfinals
edit[5] The eight cyclists qualified this far were paired for a best two-out-of-three series of 200 metre races. None of the pairings required a third race.
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Semifinals
edit[6] The four cyclists qualified this far were paired again for a best two-out-of-three series of 200 metre races. Guo Shuang was relegated for having deemed to have illegally manoeuvred Anna Meares, after having jostled her in their third and decisive sprint.[7]
- Match 1
| Name | Time (Race 1) | Time (Race 2) |
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| Victoria Pendleton (GBR) |
11.537 | 11.885 |
| Willy Kanis (NED) |
- Match 2
| Name | Time (Race 1) | Time (Race 2) | Time (Race 3) |
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| Anna Meares (AUS) |
11.578 | 11.617 | |
| Guo Shuang (CHN) |
11.629 | REL |
9th—12th place classification race
edit[8] During the same session as the semifinals, the four cyclists who were eliminated in the repechage were put into a single four-rider 200 metre race to determine exact placings from ninth to twelfth.
- Classification race
| Name | Time | Average speed (km/h) | Rank |
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| Svetlana Grankovskaya (RUS) |
12.192 | 59.055 | 9 |
| Lisandra Guerra (CUB) |
10 | ||
| Yvonne Hijgenaar (NED) |
11 | ||
| Sakie Tsukuda (JPN) |
12 |
Finals
edit5th—8th place classification race
edit[9] In the same session as the finals, the four cyclists who lost in the quarterfinals were put into one four-rider 200 metre race to determine exact placings from fifth to eighth.
- Classification race
| Name | Time | Average speed (km/h) | Rank |
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| Clara Sanchez (FRA) |
12.264 | 58.708 | 5 |
| Natallia Tsylinskaya (BLR) |
6 | ||
| Jennie Reed (USA) |
7 | ||
| Simona Krupeckaitė (LTU) |
REL | 8 |
[10] The winners from the semifinals were paired to race for gold and silver, and the losers from that round raced for bronze. Each match was again the best two-out-of-three 200 metre races.
- Bronze medal match
| Name | Time (Race 1) | Time (Race 2) | Rank |
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| Guo Shuang (CHN) |
11.420 | 11.617 | 
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| Willy Kanis (NED) |
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- Gold medal match
| Name | Time (Race 1) | Time (Race 2) | Rank |
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| Victoria Pendleton (GBR) |
11.363 | 11.118 | 
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| Anna Meares (AUS) |
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References
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- ^ "China's Guo Shuang claims first cycling medal for hosts". China Daily. 2008-08-19. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
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