Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint
The men's cycling sprint at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro took place on 12–14 August 2016.
The medals were presented by Barry Maister, IOC member, New Zealand and David Lappartient, Vice President of the UCI.Competition format
The event was a single-elimination tournament after the qualifying phase via time trial. Each match pitted two cyclists against each other in the best-of-three races base on their seeding in the qualifying phase. Each race was three laps of the track with side-by-side starts.Schedule
All times are Brasília Time
Results
Qualification
;Heat 1
;Heat 3
;Heat 5
;Heat 7
;Heat 9
;Heat 2
;Heat 4
;Heat 6
;Heat 8First round Repechage
;Heat 1
;Heat 2
;Heat 3Second round
;Heat 1
;Heat 3
;Heat 5
;Heat 2
;Heat 4
;Heat 6Second round Repechage
;Heat 1
;Heat 29th—12th place classifications
Quarter-finals
;Heat 1
| Name | Time | Time |
| 10.341 | 10.219 |
| +0.194 | +0.258 |
;Heat 2
| Name | Time | Time |
| 10.299 | 10.212 |
| +0.122 | +0.200 |
;Heat 3
| Name | Time | Time |
| 10.456 | 10.401 |
| +0.084 | +0.049 |
;Match 4
| Name | Time | Time |
| 10.202 | 10.166 |
| +0.063 | +0.213 |
5th—8th place classifications
Semi-finals
;Heat 1
| Name | Time | Time | Time |
| +0.043 | 10.048 | 10.071 |
| 10.139 | +0.032 | +0.302 |
;Heat 2
| Name | Time | Time |
| 10.119 | 10.244 |
| +0.046 | +0.057 |
Finals
;Bronze medal match
| Name | Time | Time | Rank |
| 10.105 | 10.190 | |
| +0.072 | +0.044 | 4 |
;Gold medal match
| Name | Time | Time | Rank |
| 10.164 | 9.916 | |
| +0.113 | +0.086 | |
