The second medal occasion in monitor biking on the Paris Olympics, the boys’s workforce dash pits groups of three highly effective riders in opposition to one another in a check of who can compete three laps (750 metres) the quickest.
The Dutch workforce have been the dominant squad in workforce sprinting since 2018 after they claimed their first world title, and with the powerhouse Harrie Lavreysen of their midst, the trio have received 5 of the previous six Worlds.
Lavreysen, Roy van den Berg and Matthijs Büchli set the Olympic Record (41.369 seconds) en path to claiming gold in Tokyo, and maintain the World Record (41.225 seconds) set in 2020.
The males’s workforce dash qualifying begins on August 5 at 13:09 native time on the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome.
After being seeded in qualifying, the eight groups will face off 1st vs eighth, 2nd vs seventh, third vs sixth and 4th vs fifth quickest within the first spherical of racing on August 6 at 12:59 CET.
The prime 4 will transfer onto the finals on August 6 at 13:55 with the highest two racing for gold and silver and third and fourth competing for the bronze medal.
Men’s Team Sprint rivals
- Australia: Matthew Glaetzer, Leigh Hoffman, Matthew RIchardson
- Canada: James Hedgcock, Tyler Rorke, Nick Wammes
- France: Florian Grengbo, Rayan Helal, Sebastien Vigier
- Germany: Stefan Bötticher, Maximilian Dörnbach, Luca Spiegel
- Great Britain: Jack Carlin, Ed Owen Lowe, Hamish Turnbull
- Japan: Yoshitaku Nagasako, Shinji Nakano, Yuta Obara, Kaiya Ota
- Netherlands: Jeffrey Hoogland, Harrie Lavreysen, Roy van den Berg
- China: Guo Shuai, Liu Qi, Zhou Yu
Men’s Team Sprint contenders
While the Dutch have been so dominant for years, they don’t seem to be unbeatable. The Australians managed to get the higher of them at Worlds in 2022 however the two workforce’s have not been head-to-head since Australia fell quick within the Glasgow Worlds final August. They have been simply 0.045 seconds aside within the finals.
Leigh Hoffman, Matthew Glaetzer and Matthew Richardson might be out for revenge in Paris, and it is onerous to think about another workforce getting shut.
Men’s Team Sprint schedule
- August 5: 11:00 – Men’s Team Sprint Qualifying
- August 6: 12:59 – Men’s Team Sprint, First Round
- August 6: 13:55 – Men’s Team Sprint Finals
