Cycling at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint

The men's sprint was one of the cycling in the 1900 Summer Olympics. It was on 11 September and 13 September. The sprint was a 2000-metre race. The heats (or first round) was 1000-metres. There was 4 heats. There were 72 cyclists in these Summer Olympics. 69 of these were in the sprint. The cyclists were from 6 differentnations. The event was won by Albert Taillandier of France. This was France's second win in the men's sprint. Fernand Sanz was in second place. John Henry Lake of the United States won America's first cycling medal. He was in 3rd place.

## Background
This was the 2nd time this event was in the Olympics.This event has been at every Olympics except for 1904 and 1912. None of the cyclists from 1896 were in the 1900 cyclists.

2 of the best 3 sprinters in 1900 were French. They were both in this olympics. These athletes were Ferdinand Vasserot and Albert Taillandier. An American had also gotten 2nd in the world championships. This athlete was John Henry Lake. He was the most famous athlete that was not French.

This was the first time that Belgium, Bohemia, Italy and the United States was in this event. This was the second time that France and Germany were in this event. They  were also in this event in 1896.

## Competition
The sprint was very different than the sprint happens in the modern day. The heats were very large. These heats had up to 8 cyclists. The first heats was a kilometre long. The best 3 cyclists in the heats went to the quarterfinals. The quarterfinals were also 1 kilometre long. The fastest cyclist in that quarterfinals went to the semifinals. The semifinals were also 1 kilometre long. The fastest cyclist in that semifinal went to the finals. The finals were 2 kilometres long

## Records
The records for the sprint were the time trial are for 200 metres.

* World records were not written down by the UCI until 1954.

Lloyd Hildebrand set the first record of 15.4. This was in the 1st heat. In the 2nd heat, Adolphe Cayron beat that time. His time was 14.2 seconds. In the 6th heat, John Henry Lake had 14.0 seconds. In the 9th heat, Antonio Restelli beat that time. His time was 13.6 seconds. In the 1st quarterfinal, Lake beat that time. His time was 13.2 seconds. In the 4th heat, Restelli beat another record. Hid time was 13.0. In the 5th heat, Albert Taillandier had 12.6 seconds in his round. This was the record for the rest of the 1900 games.

## Schedule
## Results
### Round 1
The first round was held on 11 September. It started at 9 a.m. The best 3 cyclists went to the quarterfinals.

#### Heat 1
Stratta very close behind Hildebrand. Vasserot was very close behind Stratta.

#### Heat 2
Coindre was a wheel behind Cayron. Daumain was very far behind Coindre.

#### Heat 3
Sanz was a half of a bike behind Gottron.

#### Heat 4
#### Heat 5
Davis a bike behind Maisonnave.

#### Heat 6
#### Heat 7
Dohis was a wheel behind Taillandier. Germain was also close to Dohis.

#### Heat 8
#### Heat 9
Wick and Hubault fell. They did not finish.

### Quarterfinals
The quarterfinals were also on the 1st day of competition(11 September). They started at 2 p.m. The winners were the only people who went to the semifinals.

#### Quarterfinal 1
Stratta was 3 bike lengths behind Lake.

#### Quarterfinal 2
Bullier was 2 bike lengths behind Sanz.

#### Quarterfinal 3
Duill was one wheel behind Coindre.

#### Quarterfinal 4
Hildebrand was a wheel behind Restelli.

#### Quarterfinal 5
Vincent was two bike lengths behind Taillandier.

#### Quarterfinal 6
The race was very close. Brusoni was a 1/4 of a wheel behind Mallet.

#### Quarterfinal 7
Ponscarme was three bike lengths behind Maisonnave.

#### Quarterfinal 8
Dohis was a 1/2 of a bike length behind Vasserot.

#### Quarterfinal 9
### Semifinals
The semifinals were on 13 September. The fastest cyclist in each semifinals went to the final round. If you won the semifinal, you would get a medal.

#### Semifinal 1
In the 1900 world championships, Lake beat Vasserot. John Henry lake was in 2nd. Vasserot was in 3rd. Lake won against Vasserot again. It was a very close race.

#### Semifinal 2
Restelli was 1/2 of a wheel behind Sanz.

#### Semifinal 3
### Final
The final was after the semifinals. They were on the same day (13 September).

## Results summary
## References
* International Olympic Committee medal winners database
* De Wael, Herman. ''Herman's Full Olympians'': "Cycling - track 1900". Accessed 19 March 2006. Available electronically at http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/cyt1900.html .
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