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28th Olympic Games - JO
Athens, Greece, August 14-28, 2004
Results Qualification Sixteenth & Eighth-finals Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals Track 101
August 22: Men's Sprint Qualification
Bayley blitzes
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Australia's Ryan Bayley followed the scorching trail set by his team-mate Anna Meares to set the fastest time in qualifying for the men's sprint this morning, recording a flying 200m of 10.177 seconds, for an average speed of 70.747km/h.
Of the 19 competitors, only Germany's Stefan Nimke failed to qualify for the 1/16 final, perhaps still feeling the effort of his contribution to Germany's team sprint victory last night.
World champion Theo Bos (Netherlands) was second at 10.214 seconds and Germany's Rene Wolff was third in 10.230.
The top 18 will go through to the 1/16 finals which start at 16:50 local time this afternoon.
Photography
Images by www.epicimages.us
- Ryan Bayley (Aus) qualifies first in the men's 200 m sprint.
- Theo Bos (Ned) in the turn, to finish second by .04 seconds
- French rider Laurent Gane qualified a surprising 5th in the 200.
Images by Rob Jones/www.canadiancyclist.com
- Hee Chun Yang (Korea) monsters the velodrome
- Barry Forde (Barbados) was 13th in qualifying
- Josiah Ng (Malaysia) heading for 11th
- Alois Kankovsky (Czech Republic) scraped in to qualify 18th
- Chibum Kim (Korea) rides to qualify 15th
- Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) qualifies a tidy tenth
- Tomohiro Nagatsuka (Japan) was 14th in qualifying
- Sean Eadie (Australia) hasn't quite regained the speed of his 2002 world championship
- Jose Villanueva (Spain) hit mid-field with eighth place
- Ross Edgar (Great Britain) on the way to sixth
- Teun Mulder (Netherlands) looks a bit worried by it all
- Stefan Nimke (Germany) - one unkind wag remarked, "Any slower and they'd have to time him with a sundial." Harsh!
- Mickael Bourgain (France) - happy with qualifying fourth at his first Olympics
- Damian Zielinski (Poland) very much not hanging about
- Ryan Bayley (Australia) visits the spectators at the top of the banking
- Ryan Bayley - heads-down full-tilt boogie
- Laurent Gane (France) makes his charge down the banking in the qualifiers
- Theo Bos (Netherlands) - the world champion was second-fastest in qualifying and is surely the man to beat
Results
1 Ryan Bayley (Australia) 10.177 (70.747km/h) 2 Theo Bos (Netherlands) 10.214 (70.491km/h) 3 Rene Wolff (Germany) 10.230 (70.381km/h) 4 Mickael Bourgain (France) 10.264 (70.148km/h) 5 Laurent Gane (France) 10.271 (70.100km/h) 6 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 10.381 (69.357km/h) 7 Damian Zielinski (Poland) 10.441 (68.958km/h) 8 Jose Villanueva (Spain) 10.446 (68.925km/h) 9 Sean Eadie (Australia) 10.454 (68.873km/h) 10 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) 10.462 (68.820km/h) 11 Josiah Ng (Malaysia) 10.515 (68.473km/h) 12 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 10.565 (68.149km/h) 13 Barry Forde (Barbados) 10.597 (67.943km/h) 14 Tomohiro Nagatsuka (Japan) 10.646 (67.631km/h) 15 Chibum Kim (Korea) 10.673 (67.459km/h) 16 Jaroslav Jerabek (Slovakia) 10.758 (66.926km/h) 17 Hee Chun Yang (Korea) 10.955 (65.723km/h) 18 Alois Kankovsky (Czech Republic) 10.956 (65.717km/h) 19 Stefan Nimke (Germany) 11.338 (63.503km/h)
