The competition was held as a knock-out tournament, preceded by a qualifying round.
The qualifying round had all participants complete one timed individual sprint, with their times deciding seeding in the eighth-finals. No cyclists were eliminated.
In the knock-out stages, the winners of each sprint progressed to the next round. The eighth-finals were held as four sprints with three cyclists in each, with following repechages for the second and third placed. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals were contested head-to-head, best of three sprints. In addition, a one-off four-cyclist sprint was held to decide fifth to eighth places.
cycling, 1988, summer, olympics, women, sprint, women, track, cycling, sprint, competition, 1988, summer, olympics, held, from, september, estonian, rider, competing, ussr, erika, salumäe, gold, while, east, germany, christa, luding, rothenburger, silver, conn. The women s track cycling sprint competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics was held from 21 to 24 September Estonian rider competing for the USSR Erika Salumae won gold while East Germany s Christa Luding Rothenburger won silver and Connie Paraskevin Young of the United States won bronze 1 Women s cycling sprintat the Games of the XXIV OlympiadVenueSeoul Olympic VelodromeDate21 24 September 1988Competitors12 from 12 nationsMedalistsErika Salumae Soviet UnionChrista Luding Rothenburger East GermanyConnie Paraskevin United States1992 Contents 1 Competition format 2 Schedule 3 Results 3 1 Qualification 3 2 Eighth finals 3 2 1 Repechages 3 3 Quarter finals 3 4 Semi finals 3 5 Finals 4 References 5 External linksCompetition format editThe competition was held as a knock out tournament preceded by a qualifying round The qualifying round had all participants complete one timed individual sprint with their times deciding seeding in the eighth finals No cyclists were eliminated In the knock out stages the winners of each sprint progressed to the next round The eighth finals were held as four sprints with three cyclists in each with following repechages for the second and third placed The quarter finals semi finals and finals were contested head to head best of three sprints In addition a one off four cyclist sprint was held to decide fifth to eighth places Schedule editDate Round21 September Qualification1 8 finals1 8 repechage22 September 1 4 finals23 September Semi finalsFinal 5th 8th places 24 September FinalResults editQualification edit Rank Name Time1 nbsp Erika Salumae URS 11 527 OR2 nbsp Isabelle Gautheron FRA 11 6113 nbsp Christa Luding Rothenburger GDR 11 6924 nbsp Connie Paraskevin Young USA 11 8455 nbsp Julie Speight AUS 11 9556 nbsp Louise Jones GBR 12 2877 nbsp Elisabetta Fanton ITA 12 3038 nbsp Yang Hsiu chen TPE 12 3749 nbsp Kim Jin yeong KOR 12 41610 nbsp Seiko Hashimoto JPN 12 42511 nbsp Zhou Suying CHN 12 47712 nbsp Beth Tabor CAN 12 588Eighth finals edit Heat 1 Rank Name Time Note1 nbsp Erika Salumae URS 12 83 Q2 nbsp Yang Hsiu chen TPE R3 nbsp Kim Jin yeong KOR RHeat 2 Rank Name Time Note1 nbsp Isabelle Gautheron FRA 12 22 Q2 nbsp Seiko Hashimoto JPN R3 nbsp Elisabetta Fanton ITA RHeat 3 Rank Name Time Note1 nbsp Christa Luding Rothenburger GDR 12 24 Q2 nbsp Zhou Suying CHN R3 nbsp Louise Jones GBR RHeat 4 Rank Name Time Note1 nbsp Connie Paraskevin Young USA 12 11 Q2 nbsp Julie Speight AUS R3 nbsp Beth Tabor CAN RQ Qualified for next round R Qualified for repechage Repechages edit Heat 1 Name Time Note nbsp Yang Hsiu chen TPE 12 80 Q nbsp Beth Tabor CAN Heat 2 Name Time Note nbsp Seiko Hashimoto JPN nbsp Louise Jones GBR 12 36 QHeat 3 Name Time Note nbsp Zhou Suying CHN 12 65 Q nbsp Elisabetta Fanton ITA Heat 4 Name Time Note nbsp Julie Speight AUS 13 04 Q nbsp Kim Jin yeong KOR Q Qualified for next round Quarter finals edit Heat 1 Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note nbsp Erika Salumae URS 12 34 11 81 Q nbsp Louise Jones GBR Heat 2 Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note nbsp Isabelle Gautheron FRA 12 13 11 90 Q nbsp Yang Hsiu chen TPE Heat 3 Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note nbsp Christa Luding Rothenburger GDR 11 80 11 63 Q nbsp Julie Speight AUS Heat 4 Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note nbsp Connie Paraskevin Young USA 12 85 12 94 Q nbsp Zhou Suying CHN Q Qualified for next round Semi finals edit Heat 1 Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note nbsp Erika Salumae URS 12 38 12 22 Q nbsp Connie Paraskevin Young USA Heat 2 Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note nbsp Isabelle Gautheron FRA 11 79 nbsp Christa Luding Rothenburger GDR 11 92 11 89 QQ Qualified for next round Finals edit Fifth to eighth places Rank Name Time Note5 nbsp Julie Speight AUS 12 566 nbsp Zhou Suying CHN 7 nbsp Louise Jones GBR 8 nbsp Yang Hsiu chen TPE Bronze medal final Rank Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note nbsp nbsp Connie Paraskevin Young USA 14 07 12 41 4 nbsp Isabelle Gautheron FRA Gold medal final Rank Name Time 1 Time 2 Time 3 Note nbsp nbsp Erika Salumae URS 12 00 12 58 nbsp nbsp Christa Luding Rothenburger GDR 11 68References edit Cycling at the 1988 Summer Games Women s Sprint Sports Reference Archived from the original on 17 April 2020 Retrieved 10 July 2016 External links edit Official report of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games PDF International Olympic Committee LA84 Foundation p 359 Retrieved 21 August 2014 results see page 213 in PDF Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics Women 27s sprint amp oldid 1152725067, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
