Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint
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Men's sprint at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Stone Mountain Park Velodrome | |||||||||
Dates | 24–28 July | |||||||||
Competitors | 24 from 16 nations | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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The men's sprint at the 1996 Summer Olympics (Cycling) was an event that consisted of cyclists making three laps around the track. Only the time for the last 200 metres of the 750 metres covered was counted as official time. The races were held on July 24 through July 28, 1996 at the Stone Mountain Velodrome.[1] There were 24 competitors from 16 nations, with nations once again being allowed to have up to two cyclists each (the limit had fluctuated between one and two for most of the history of the event). The event was won by Jens Fiedler of Germany, the second man to successfully defend an Olympic sprint title (and third to win two gold medals overall). Curt Harnett of Canada also repeated as bronze medalist; he and Fiedler were the fifth and sixth men to win multiple medals of any color in the event. Marty Nothstein of the United States took silver, the nation's first medal in the event since 1984.