2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's sprint

Men's sprint at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Venue	Velodrom
Location	Berlin, Germany
Dates	29 February – 1 March
Competitors	35 from 21 nations
Medalists
Harrie Lavreysen    Netherlands   Jeffrey Hoogland    Netherlands   Azizulhasni Awang    Malaysia
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The Men's sprint competition at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 29 February and 1 March 2020.^[1][2]

Results

Qualifying

The qualifying was started on 29 February at 11:25.^[3] The top four riders advanced directly to the 1/8 finals; places 5 to 28 advanced to the 1/16 finals.

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Behind	Notes
1	Harrie Lavreysen	Netherlands	9.253		Q
2	Jeffrey Hoogland	Netherlands	9.322	+0.069	Q
3	Mateusz Rudyk	Poland	9.434	+0.181	Q
4	Denis Dmitriev	Russia	9.522	+0.269	Q
5	Azizulhasni Awang	Malaysia	9.548	+0.295	q
6	Nicholas Paul	Trinidad and Tobago	9.556	+0.303	q
7	Jason Kenny	Great Britain	9.561	+0.308	q
8	Yudai Nitta	Japan	9.562	+0.309	q
9	Quentin Caleyron	France	9.564	+0.311	q
10	Stefan Bötticher	Germany	9.568	+0.315	q
11	Matthijs Büchli	Netherlands	9.575	+0.322	q
12	Sebastien Vigier	France	9.595	+0.342	q
13	Tomohiro Fukaya	Japan	9.607	+0.354	q
14	Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom	Malaysia	9.609	+0.356	q
15	Sam Webster	New Zealand	9.615	+0.362	q
16	Nathan Hart	Australia	9.624	+0.371	q
17	Matthew Richardson	Australia	9.628	+0.375	q
18	Sándor Szalontay	Hungary	9.650	+0.397	q
19	Jack Carlin	Great Britain	9.659	+0.406	q
20	Juan Peralta	Spain	9.668	+0.415	q
21	Jair Tjon En Fa	Suriname	9.668	+0.415	q
22	Zhou Yu	China	9.674	+0.421	q
23	Kevin Quintero	Colombia	9.682	+0.429	q
24	Xu Chao	China	9.693	+0.440	q
25	Sam Ligtlee	Netherlands	9.704	+0.451	q
26	Ethan Mitchell	New Zealand	9.753	+0.500	q
27	Hsieh Nien-hsing	Chinese Taipei	9.764	+0.511	q
28	Vasilijus Lendel	Lithuania	9.765	+0.512	q
29	Pavel Kelemen	Czech Republic	9.784	+0.531
30	Law Tsz Chun	Hong Kong	9.807	+0.554
31	Martin Čechman	Czech Republic	9.835	+0.582
32	Santiago Ramírez	Colombia	9.936	+0.683
33	Muhammad Fadhil Mohd Zonis	Malaysia	9.945	+0.692
34	Jean Spies	South Africa	10.184	+0.931
	Pavel Yakushevskiy	Russia	Did not finish

1/16 finals

The 1/16 finals were started on 29 February at 12.35.^[4] Heat winners advanced to the 1/8 finals.

Heat	Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	1	Azizulhasni Awang	Malaysia	X	Q
1	2	Vasilijus Lendel	Lithuania	+0.279
2	1	Nicholas Paul	Trinidad and Tobago	X	Q
2	2	Hsieh Nien-hsing	Chinese Taipei	+0.093
3	1	Jason Kenny	Great Britain	X	Q
3	2	Ethan Mitchell	New Zealand	+1.259
4	1	Yudai Nitta	Japan	X	Q
4	2	Sam Ligtlee	Netherlands	+0.050
5	1	Quentin Caleyron	France	X	Q
5	2	Xu Chao	China	+0.165
6	1	Stefan Bötticher	Germany	X	Q
6	2	Kevin Quintero	Colombia	+0.035
7	1	Matthijs Büchli	Netherlands	X	Q
7	2	Zhou Yu	China	+0.041
8	1	Jair Tjon En Fa	Suriname	X	Q
8	2	Sebastien Vigier	France	+0.006
9	1	Tomohiro Fukaya	Japan	X	Q
9	2	Juan Peralta	Spain	+0.094
10	1	Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom	Malaysia	X	Q
10	2	Jack Carlin	Great Britain	+0.032
11	1	Sam Webster	New Zealand	X	Q
11	2	Sándor Szalontay	Hungary	+0.096
12	1	Nathan Hart	Australia	X	Q
12	2	Matthew Richardson	Australia	+0.072

1/8 finals

The 1/8 finalswere started on 29 February at 14:16.^[5] Heat winners advanced to the quarterfinals.

Heat	Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	1	Harrie Lavreysen	Netherlands	X	Q
1	2	Nathan Hart	Australia	+0.347
2	1	Jeffrey Hoogland	Netherlands	X	Q
2	2	Sam Webster	New Zealand	+0.049
3	1	Mateusz Rudyk	Poland	X	Q
3	2	Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom	Malaysia	+0.001
4	1	Tomohiro Fukaya	Japan	X	Q
4	2	Denis Dmitriev	Russia	+0.396
5	1	Azizulhasni Awang	Malaysia	X	Q
5	2	Jair Tjon En Fa	Suriname	+0.120
6	1	Matthijs Büchli	Netherlands	X	Q
6	2	Nicholas Paul	Trinidad and Tobago	+0.048
7	1	Stefan Bötticher	Germany	X	Q
7	2	Jason Kenny	Great Britain	+0.047
8	1	Yudai Nitta	Japan	X	Q
8	2	Quentin Caleyron	France	+0.071

Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals were started on 29 February at 16:52.^[6] Matches are extended to a best-of-three format hereon; winners proceed to the semifinals.

Heat	Rank	Name	Nation	Race 1	Race 2	Decider (i.r.)	Notes
1	1	Harrie Lavreysen	Netherlands	X	X		Q
1	2	Yudai Nitta	Japan	+0.106	+0.151
2	1	Jeffrey Hoogland	Netherlands	X	X		Q
2	2	Stefan Bötticher	Germany	+0.126	+0.150
3	1	Mateusz Rudyk	Poland	X	X		Q
3	2	Matthijs Büchli	Netherlands	+0.131	+0.185
4	1	Azizulhasni Awang	Malaysia	X	X		Q
4	2	Tomohiro Fukaya	Japan	+0.083	+0.000

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 1 March at 11:00.^[7]

Heat	Rank	Name	Nation	Race 1	Race 2	Decider (i.r.)	Notes
1	1	Harrie Lavreysen	Netherlands	X	X		Q
1	2	Azizulhasni Awang	Malaysia	+0.475	+0.330
2	1	Jeffrey Hoogland	Netherlands	X	X		Q
2	2	Mateusz Rudyk	Poland	+0.663	+0.113

Finals

The finals were started on 1 March at 14:39.^[8]

Rank	Name	Nation	Race 1	Race 2	Decider (i.r.)
Gold medal race
	Harrie Lavreysen	Netherlands	X	X
	Jeffrey Hoogland	Netherlands	+0.064	+0.195
Bronze medal race
	Azizulhasni Awang	Malaysia	X	X
4	Mateusz Rudyk	Poland	+0.000	+0.853

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