Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 660 yards
Men's 660 yards at the Games of the IV Olympiad | ||||||||||
Venue | White City Stadium | |||||||||
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Dates | July 14–15 | |||||||||
Competitors | 48 from 9 nations | |||||||||
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660 yards | men | |
5000 metres | men | |
20 kilometres | men | |
100 kilometres | men | |
Sprint | men | |
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Team pursuit | men |
The men's 660 yards was one of seven track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. It was the shortest of the events, comprising a single lap of the track. The time limit for the race was 1 minute, 10 seconds.
Results
First round
One cyclist from each of the 16 heats advanced to the semifinal round.
Heat 1
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Benjamin Jones | Great Britain | 59 seconds |
2 | Dorus Nijland | Netherlands | Unknown |
Heat 2
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | William Bailey | Great Britain | 50.8 seconds |
2 | Frederick McCarthy | Canada | Unknown |
3 | Pierre Seginaud | France | Unknown |
Heat 3
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Clarence Kingsbury | Great Britain | 57.4 seconds |
2 | Rudolf Katzer | Germany | Unknown |
3 | Georgius Damen | Netherlands | Unknown |
Heat 4
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Victor Johnson | Great Britain | 56.2 seconds |
2 | Jean Patou | Belgium | Unknown |
3 | Richard Villepontoux | France | Unknown |
Heat 5
The fifth heat was voided due to the two cyclists both exceeding the time limit of 70 seconds.
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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— | Maurice Schilles | France | No time |
Frank Shore | South Africa | No time |
Heat 6
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Émile Demangel | France | 59.8 seconds |
2 | George Summers | Great Britain | Unknown |
3 | Andrew Hansson | Sweden | Unknown |
Heat 7
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Johannes van Spengen | Netherlands | 58.2 seconds |
2 | Hermann Martens | Germany | Unknown |
3 | Joe Lavery | Great Britain | Unknown |
Heat 8
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Walter Andrews | Canada | 55.8 seconds |
2 | Joseph Werbrouck | Belgium | Unknown |
3 | Gaston Delaplane | France | Unknown |
Heat 9
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Paul Texier | France | 1:01.6 |
2 | Thomas Passmore | South Africa | Unknown |
Heat 10
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Floris Venter | South Africa | 1:03.2 |
2 | Georges Perrin | France | Unknown |
3 | Bruno Götze | Germany | Unknown |
Heat 11
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Karl Neumer | Germany | 54.2 seconds |
2 | W. F. Magee | Great Britain | Unknown |
3 | Émile Maréchal | France | Unknown |
4 | Antonie Gerrits | Netherlands | Unknown |
Heat 12
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Ernest Payne | Great Britain | 57.2 seconds |
2 | André Poulain | France | Unknown |
3 | Jean Van Benthem | Belgium | Unknown |
Heat 13
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Daniel Flynn | Great Britain | 55.0 seconds |
2 | Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein | Netherlands | Unknown |
3 | Paul Schulze | Germany | Unknown |
Heat 14
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Lucien Renard | Belgium | 55.2 seconds |
2 | Gaston Dreyfus | France | Unknown |
3 | William Morton | Canada | Unknown |
4 | Gerald Anderson | Great Britain | Unknown |
Heat 15
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | George Cameron | United States | 1:05.2 |
2 | Léon Coeckelberg | Belgium | Unknown |
Heat 16
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | André Auffray | France | 58.4 seconds |
2 | Arthur J. Denny | Great Britain | Unknown |
3 | Philipus Freylinck | South Africa | Unknown |
Semifinals
The fastest cyclist in each of the 4 semifinals advanced to the final.
Semifinal 1
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Victor Johnson | Great Britain | 59.2 seconds |
2 | Johannes van Spengen | Netherlands | Unknown |
3 | Paul Texier | France | Unknown |
4 | Walter Andrews | Canada | Unknown |
Semifinal 2
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Émile Demangel | France | 51.6 seconds |
2 | Clarence Kingsbury | Great Britain | Unknown |
3 | William Bailey | Great Britain | Unknown |
4 | Floris Venter | South Africa | Unknown |
Semifinal 3
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Daniel Flynn | Great Britain | 54.8 seconds |
2 | André Auffray | France | Unknown |
3 | George Cameron | United States | Unknown |
4 | Ernest Payne | Great Britain | Unknown |
Semifinal 4
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Karl Neumer | Germany | 1:05.6 |
2 | Lucien Renard | Belgium | Unknown |
3 | Benjamin Jones | Great Britain | Unknown |
Final
Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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1 | Victor Johnson | Great Britain | 51.2 seconds |
2 | Émile Demangel | France | Unknown |
3 | Karl Neumer | Germany | Unknown |
4 | Daniel Flynn | Great Britain | Unknown |
Sources
- Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
- De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Cycling 1908". Accessed 7 April 2006. Available electronically at .
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