Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint

Men's sprint at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	White City Stadium
Date	July 16
Competitors	42 from 10 nations

Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Track cycling
660 yards		men
5000 metres		men
20 kilometres		men
100 kilometres		men
Sprint		men
Tandem		men
Team pursuit		men

The men's 1000 metre sprint was one of seven track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Its distance was the second shortest of the individual event distances. The time limit for the race was 1 minute and 45 seconds.

Results

First round

Heat 1

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Victor Johnson	Great Britain	1:33.8
2	Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein	Netherlands	Unknown
3	Guglielmo Malatesta	Italy	Unknown

Heat 2

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Floris Venter	South Africa	1:33.2
2	André Poulain	France	Unknown
3	Thomas Matthews	Great Britain	Unknown

Heat 3

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Maurice Schilles	France	1:38.4
2	Andrew Hansson	Sweden	Unknown

Heat 4

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Daniel Flynn	Great Britain	1:30.2
2	Pierre Seginaud	France	Unknown
3	Paul Schulze	Germany	Unknown
4	Frederick McCarthy	Canada	Unknown

Heat 5

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Ernest Payne	Great Britain	1:32.0
2	Dorus Nijland	Netherlands	Unknown

Heat 6

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
—	W. F. Magee	Great Britain	Time limit exceeded
	Hermann Martens	Germany
	Johannes van Spengen	Netherlands

Heat 7

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Karl Neumer	Germany	1:33.2
2	Richard Villepontoux	France	Unknown
3	William Bailey	Great Britain	Unknown

Heat 8

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	George Cameron	United States	1:29.4
2	Philipus Frylink	South Africa	Unknown
3	Herbert Crowther	Great Britain	Unknown
4	G. Dreyfus	France	Unknown

Heat 9

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Émile Demangel	France	1:35.2
2	William Morton	Canada	Unknown

Heat 10

Auffray was the only starter in the heat.

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	André Auffray	France	1:23.6

Heat 11

Morisetti was the only starter in the heat.

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Guglielmo Morisetti	Italy	1:21.4

Heat 12

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Benjamin Jones	Great Britain	1:35.0
2	Émile Marechal	France	Unknown
3	Bruno Götze	Germany	Unknown

Heat 13

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Pierre Texier	France	1:31.0
2	George Summers	Great Britain	Unknown
3	Louis Weintz	United States	Unknown

Heat 14

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	J. L. Lavery	Great Britain	1:41.0
2	Antonie Gerrits	Netherlands	Unknown

Heat 15

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Clarence Kingsbury	Great Britain	1:27.4
2	Gaston Delaplane	France	Unknown

Heat 16

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
—	Georges Perrin	France	Time limit exceeded
	Frank Shore	South Africa

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Victor Johnson	Great Britain	1:27.4
2	Karl Neumer	Germany	Unknown
3	Floris Venter	South Africa	Unknown
4	Pierre Texier	France	Unknown

Semifinal 2

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Maurice Schilles	France	1:38.8
2-4	George Cameron	United States	Unknown
	Daniel Flynn	Great Britain	Unknown
	Ernest Payne	Great Britain	Unknown

Semifinal 3

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Benjamin Jones	Great Britain	1:40.8
2	Émile Demangel	France	Unknown
3	J. L. Lavery	Great Britain	Unknown

Semifinal 4

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Clarence Kingsbury	Great Britain	1:35.6
2	Guglielmo Morisetti	Italy	Unknown
3	André Auffray	France	Unknown

Final

The time limit in the final was exceeded, resulting in the race being declared void and no medals being awarded. Two of the three British riders, Kingsbury and Johnson, did not finish, leaving the race to Jones and the Frenchman, Schilles. According to the Official Report, "the Frenchman apparently won by inches, but the Judge did not officially place the riders.^[1]"

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
Time limit exceeded	Victor Johnson	Great Britain	NMR
	Benjamin Jones	Great Britain
	Clarence Kingsbury	Great Britain
	Maurice Schilles	France

Key=NMR No Marks Recorded

Notes

1. Cook, p. 116

Sources

• Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
• De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Cycling 1908". Accessed 7 April 2006. Available electronically at .