Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team sprint
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Men's team sprint at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Laoshan Velodrome | ||||||||||||
Dates | August 15 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 39 from 13 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 43.128 | ||||||||||||
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The men's team sprint at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 15 at the Laoshan Velodrome.
After delivering three superb rides in the process, British trio Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny, and Jamie Staff defeated France by a 0.523-second margin to dominate the team sprint final with a gold-medal time in 43.128.[1][2] The French threesome of Grégory Baugé, Kévin Sireau, and Arnaud Tournant took home the silver in 43.651, while Germany's René Enders, Maximilian Levy, and Stefan Nimke edged out the Aussies by eight hundredths of a second for the bronze in 44.014.[1]