2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's sprint

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The Women's Sprint was one of the eight women's events at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Rainbow jersey

28 cyclists from 18 countries were due to participate in the contest, but two riders did not start. After the qualifying heats, the fastest 24 riders were to advance to the 1/16 finals, therefore all riders who contested the qualification advanced to the next round.^[1]

The first rider in each of the 12 heats advanced to the second round.^[2] There was no repechage for this round.

The first rider from each of the six Second Round heats advanced to the Quarterfinals and the second placed riders from a repechage^[3] to determine the other two riders that competed in the quarterfinals.^[4]

The quarterfinals turned out to be quite eventful, as Simona Krupeckaitė was relegated in her first match sprint against Willy Kanis when she failed to hold her line in the last 200 metres but won the next two matches to go through to the semifinals. Guo Shuang was also relegated in her second match sprint against Clara Sanchez when she entered the sprinter's lane when the opponent was already there. Lisandra Guerra also received a warning for dangerous riding in the final bend. The first rider in each quarterfinal advanced to the semifinals and the 4 losing athletes faced a race for 5th-8th place.^[5]

The qualifying, first round, second round, second round repechages and quarterfinals took place on 28 March. The Semifinals and Finals took place on 29 March.^[6]

World record

World record
WR	10.831	Olga Slyusareva (RUS)	Moscow	25 April 1993

Qualification

Rank	Name	100m	Time	Speed (km/h)	Q
			100-200
1	Victoria Pendleton (GBR)	5.394 (1)	10.904	66.030	Q
			5.510 (1)
2	Guo Shuang (CHN)	5.438 (2)	11.002	65.442	Q
			5.564 (2)
3	Simona Krupeckaitė (LTU)	5.462 (3)	11.093	64.905	Q
			5.631 (3)
4	Gong Jinjie (CHN)	5.478 (5)	11.152	64.562	Q
			5.674 (4)
5	Lisandra Guerra (CUB)	5.480 (6)	11.169	64.464	Q
			5.689 (5)
6	Willy Kanis (NED)	5.469 (4)	11.172	64.446	Q
			5.703 (6)
7	Natalia Tsylinskaya (BLR)	5.508 (7)	11.221	64.165	Q
			5.713 (7)
8	Swetlana Grankowskaja (RUS)	5.540 (9)	11.280	63.829	Q
			5.740 (8)
9	Jennie Reed (USA)	5.538 (8)	11.283	63.812	Q
			5.745 (10)
10	Yvonne Hijgenaar (NED)	5.557 (11)	11.298	63.728	Q
			5.741 (9)
11	Luybov Shulika (UKR)	5.543 (10)	11.317	63.621	Q
			5.774 (12)
12	Clara Sanchez (FRA)	5.569 (12)	11.346	63.458	Q
			5.777 (13)
13	Anna Blyth (GBR)	5.590 (14)	11.354	63.413	Q
			5.764 (11)
14	Zheng Lulu (CHN)	5.611 (15)	11.416	63.069	Q
			5.805 (15)
	Dana Glöss (GER)	5.583 (13)	11.416	63.069	Q
			5.833 (17)
16	Karlee McCulloch (AUS)	5.633 (16)	11.417	63.063	Q
			5.784 (14)
17	Christin Muche (GER)	5.692 (20)	11.510	62.554	Q
			5.818 (16)
18	Sandie Clair (FRA)	5.697 (22)	11.542	62.380	Q
			5.845 (19)
19	Elisa Frisoni (ITA)	5.709 (23)	11.545	62.364	Q
			5.836 (18)
20	Miriam Welte (GER)	5.696 (21)	11.550	62.337	Q
			5.854 (20)
21	Oksana Grishina (RUS)	5.686 (19)	11.576	62.197	Q
			6.096 (21)
22	Virginie Cueff (FRA)	5.684 (17)	11.599	62.074	Q
			5.915 (22)
23	Diana García (COL)	5.684 (17)	11.605	61.042	Q
			5.921 (23)
24	Anastasia Chulkova (RUS)	5.791 (25)	11.738	61.339	Q
			5.947 (24)
25	Jessica Varnish (GBR)	5.758 (24)	11.756	61.245	Q
			6.025 (20)
	Valentina Alessio (ITA)	5.804 (26)	11.756	61.245	Q
			5.952 (25)
27	Sakie Tsukuda (JPN)	6.005 (27)	12.268	58.689	Q
			6.263 (27)
28	Maneephan Jutatip (THA)	6.110 (28)	12.532	57.452	Q
			6.422 (28)

1/16 Finals

Heat	Rank	Name	200m Time	Speed (km/h)	Q
1	1	Victoria Pendleton (GBR)	11.978	60.110	Q
	2	Anastasia Chulkova (RUS)
2	1	Guo Shuang (CHN)	11.754	61.225	Q
	2	Diana García (COL)
3	1	Simona Krupeckaitė (LTU)	11.886	60.575	Q
	2	Virginie Cueff (FRA)
4	1	Oksana Grishina (RUS)	11.853	60.744	Q
	2	Gong Jinjie (CHN)
5	1	Lisandra Guerra (CUB)	11.69	61.543	Q
	2	Miriam Welte (GER)
6	1	Willy Kanis (NED)	12.518	57.517	Q
	2	Elisa Frisoni (ITA)
7	1	Natalia Tsylinskaya (BLR)	13.281	54.212	Q
	2	Sandie Clair (FRA)
8	1	Christin Muche (GER)	11.875	60.631	Q
	2	Swetlana Grankowskaja (RUS)
9	1	Jennie Reed (USA)	11.954	60.230	Q
	2	Kaarle McCulloch (FRA)
10	1	Yvonne Hijgenaar (NED)	11.925	60.377	Q
	2	Dana Glöss (GER)
11	1	Zheng Lulu (CHN)	11.862	60.698	Q
	2	Luybov Shulika (UKR)
12	1	Clara Sanchez (FRA)	11.653	61.786	Q
	2	Anna Blyth (GBR)

1/8 Finals

Heat	Rank	Name	200m Time	Speed (km/h)	Q
1	1	Victoria Pendleton (GBR)	11.629	61.914	Q
	2	Clara Sanchez (FRA)
2	1	Guo Shuang (CHN)	11.947	60.266	Q
	2	Zheng Lulu (CHN)
3	1	Simona Krupeckaitė (LTU)	11.236	64.079	Q
	2	Yvonne Hijgenaar (NED)
4	1	Jennie Reed (USA)	11.811	60.960	Q
	2	Oksana Grishina (RUS)
5	1	Lisandra Guerra (CUB)	11.636	61.876	Q
	2	Christine Muche (GER)
6	1	Willy Kanis (NED)	16.221	44.386	Q

1/8 Finals Repechage

Heat	Rank^[4]	Name	200m Time	Speed (km/h)	Q
1	1	Clara Sanchez (FRA)	12.628	57.016	Q
	2	Oksana Grishina (RUS)
2	1	Yvonne Hijgenaar (NED)	12.647	56.930	Q
	2	Christine Muche (GER)
	3	Zheng Lulu (CHN)

Quarterfinals

Heat	Rank^[5]	Name	1st Race	2nd Race	Decider	Q
1	1	Victoria Pendleton (GBR)	11.804	12.620		Q
	2	Yvonne Hijgenaar (NED)
2	2	Guo Shuang (CHN)	11.939	REL	11.892	Q
	2	Clara Sanchez (FRA)		12.020
3	1	Simona Krupeckaitė (LTU)	REL	11.544	11.434	Q
	2	Willy Kanis (NED)	11.604
4	1	Jennie Reed (USA)	11.895	11.971		Q
	2	Lisandra Guerra (CUB)

Race for 5th to 8th places

Rank^[7]	Name	200m Time	Speed (km/h)
5	Willy Kanis (NED)	12.049	59.755
6	Clara Sanchez (FRA)
7	Lisandra Guerra (CUB)
8	Yvonne Hijgenaar (NED)

Semifinals

Heat	Rank	Name	1st Race	2nd Race	Decider	Q
1	1	Victoria Pendleton (GBR)	11.972	11.697		QF
	2	Jennie Reed (USA)				QB
2	1	Simona Krupeckaitė (LTU)	12.046	11.381		QF
	2	Guo Shuang (CHN)				QB

^[8]

Finals

Heat	Rank	Name	1st Race	2nd Race	Decider
Gold Race		Victoria Pendleton (GBR)	11.747	11.551
		Simona Krupeckaitė (LTU)
Bronze Race		Jennie Reed (USA)	12.055		12.044
	4	Guo Shuang (BLR)		11.498

^[9]

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