29th Olympic Games - JO

Beijing, China, August 9-23, 2008

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Event 19 - August 17: Men's Sprint Qualifying Round (200m)

Records beaten in qualifying

By Rob Jones

In the flying 200 metre time trials for the sprint qualification, five men broke the existing Olympic records, with the top qualifiers both within a tenth of a second of the world record.

Chris Hoy was the best for the men, with a time of 9.815 seconds, followed by his team-mate Jason Kenny at 9.857 seconds. Theo Bos holds the world record at 9.772 seconds.

Stefan Nimke (Germany), Kevin Sireau (France) and Mickael Bourgain (France) also went under the Olympic mark of 10.129 seconds, set by Gary Neiwand of Australia, back in Atlanta in 1996.

Photography

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Images by Casey Gibson/www.cbgphoto.com

Ryan Bayley in the 200 m sprint qualifying.
The US' Michael Blatchford looks like a sprinter and shows it on the track.
Theo Bos of the Netherlands in the 200m qualifier
France's Mickael Bourgain ended the qualifier in fifth place.
Australia's Mark French finished 10th in the qualification round
Chris Hoy set a new Olympic record in the 200m and that was only in the first round
Hoy sprints to the finish.

Results

1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain)              0.09.815 (73.357 km/h)
2 Jason Kenny (Great Britain)            0.09.857
3 Stefan Nimke (Germany)                 0.10.064
4 Kevin Sireau (France)                  0.10.098
5 Mickael Bourgain (France)              0.10.123
6 Maximilian Levy (Germany)              0.10.199
7 Mohd Azizulhasni Awang (Malaysia)      0.10.272
8 Roberto Chiappa (Italy)                0.10.314
9 Theo Bos (Netherlands)                 0.10.318
10 Mark French (Australia)               0.10.337
11 Kazunari Watanabe (Japan)             0.10.346
12 Ryan Bayley (Australia)               0.10.362
13 Teun Mulder (Netherlands)             0.10.373
14 Tsubasa Kitatsuru (Japan)             0.10.391
15 Michael Blatchford (United States)    0.10.470
16 Lei Zhang (China)                     0.10.497
17 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland)           0.10.504
18 Denis Dmitriev (Russia)               0.10.565
19 Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic)         0.10.569
20 Vasileios Reppas (Greece)             0.10.966
21 Daniel Novikov (Estonia)              0.11.187