The males’s particular person dash will get the motion underway for the quickest riders on two wheels on the earth, beginning with qualifying on August 7 earlier than the finals and medal-deciding races happen on Friday, August 9, on the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome outdoors Paris.
Qualifying will get underway for the 33 entrants two days into the monitor occasions beginning at Paris 2024 on Wednesday, August 7, with the quickest instances in a 200m flying lap time trial heading into successive rounds of the well-known three-lap match sprints, the place the sphere can be lowered down within the 1/32, 1/16 and 1/8 finals and repechages.
The competitors will resume on Thursday, August 8, for the highest eight riders from the opening day of motion to face off in 4 quarterfinals, with the most effective of three match dash rounds resuming.
The semi-finals and medal finals will comply with on Friday, August 9, when the gold medal and Olympic Champion can be determined after an exciting day of motion on the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines boards.
The battle for gold ought to see probably the most highly effective and explosive males’s cyclists on the planet battle out for high spot, with large stares on the beginning line, monitor stands, and should-to-shoulder racing all commonplace in considered one of monitor’s most enjoyable occasions.
Track sprinting has lengthy featured within the Olympics for males, with the primary look coming within the inaugural trendy incarnation of the Games in Athens 1896. Paris 2024 would be the 22 completely different Olympic champions being determined in that point.
Men’s Sprint rivals
- Matthew Glaetzer (Australia)
- Leigh Hoffman (Australia)
- Matthew Richardson (Australia)
- Tyler Rorke (Canada)
- Nick Wammes (Canada)
- Cristian David Ortega Fontalvo (Colombia)
- Kevin Santiago Quintero Chavarro (Colombia)
- Rayan Helal (France)
- Sebastien Vigier (France)
- Stefan Boetticher (Germany)
- Maximilian Doernbach (Germany)
- Luca Spiegel (Germany)
- Jack Carlin (Great Britain)
- Hamish Turnbull (Great Britain)
- Mikhail Yakovlev (Israel)
- Shinji Nakano (Japan)
- Yuta Obara (Japan)
- Kaiya Ota (Japan)
- Andrey Chugay (Kazakhstan)
- Vasilijus Lendel (Lithuania)
- Mohd Azizulhasni Awang (Malaysia)
- Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom (Malaysia)
- Jeffrey Hoogland (Netherlands)
- Harrie Lavreysen (Netherlands)
- Sam Dakin (New Zealand)
- Qi Liu (China)
- Yu Zhou (China)
- Mateusz Rudyk (Poland)
- Jean Spies (South Africa)
- Jair Tjon en Fa (Suriname)
- Jai Angsuthasawit (Thailand)
- Kwesi Browne (Trinidad and Tobago)
- Nicholas Paul (Trinidad and Tobago)
Men’s Sprint contenders
While the Brits dominated the sprint for gold between Beijing 2008 and Rio 2016, the tide has turned lately to the Dutch being producing the riders to beat, primarily by means of five-time World and defending Olympic Champion Harrie Lavreysen, who has commanded the final six years of monitor sprinting.
Lavreysen will head into Paris 2024 because the heavy favorite within the dash, having proven great poise and energy up to now few main occasions to outdo everybody who has confronted him in pursuit of gold medals and rainbow jerseys.
His compatriot Jeffrey Hoogland will equally be a giant medal hope having completed second to Lavreysen on the Tokyo Olympics three years in the past and on three events been runner-up to his countryman at worlds between 2020 and 2022.
Outside of the 2 Dutch stars in a mixture of nations vying to knock Lavreysen off of the highest spot, notably runner-up from Glasgow worlds in 2023, Nicholas Paul from Trinidad and Tobago, and Britain’s Jack Carlin.
Carlin will look to emulate legends Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny in pursuit of a medal higher than his bronze from Tokyo.
Australia additionally brings a stacked squad of expertise by means of Matt Glaetzer and Matt Richardson, with the previous coming fourth in Tokyo 2020 and the latter being the Commonwealth champion in 2022 when he bested Paul on the Lee Valley Velodrome.
Men’s Sprint schedule
- August 7: Qualifying – 12:45 CET
- August 7: 1/32 Final & Repechage – 14:30 CET
- August 7: 1/16 Final & Repechage – 17:30 CET
- August 7: 1/8 Final & Repechage – 19:38 CET
- August 8: Quarterfinal – 18:01 CET
- August 9: Semifinal – 14:41 CET
- August 9: Final – 18:00 CET
