The women's sprint event in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics consisted of a series of head-to-head matches in which cyclists made three laps around the track. Only the time for the last 200 metres of the 750 metres covered was counted as official time.[1]
The twelve cyclists competed in six matches of two cyclists each. Winners advanced to the quarterfinals while the defeated riders received a second chance in the 1/8 repechage.
The 1/8 repechage consisted of two heats of three cyclists, with the six riders that had been defeated in the 1/8 final competing. The winner of each of the heats returned to the main competition and advanced to the quarterfinal. The losers of the repechage competed in the 9th to 12th place classification.
Heat
Time
Speed
Pos
Rider
Country
Heat 1
12.015 s
59.925 km/h
1
Svetlana Grankovskaya
Russia
2
Jennie Reed
United States
3
Evgenia Radanova
Bulgaria
Heat 2
12.132 s
59.347 km/h
1
Katrin Meinke
Germany
2
Yvonne Hijgenaar
Netherlands
3
Victoria Pendleton
Great Britain
Classification 9-12
The 9-12 classification was one race in which all four losers from the 1/8 repechage competed. The winner of the classification took 9th place, with the following three places going to the other cyclists in order.
Pos
Rider
Country
Time
Speed
1
Victoria Pendleton
Great Britain
12.699 s
56.697 km/h
2
Jennie Reed
United States
3
Yvonne Hijgenaar
Netherlands
4
Evgenia Radanova
Bulgaria
Quarterfinals
The quarterfinals pitted the eight cyclists against each other in four pairwise matches. Each match was a best-of-three race competition. Winners advanced to the semifinals while the losers competed in the 5th to 8th place classification.
The 5-8 classification was one race in which all four losers from the quarterfinals competed. The winner of the classification took 5th place, with the following three places going to the other cyclists in order.
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