Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 660 yards

Men's 660 yards
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
VenueWhite City Stadium
DatesJuly 14–15
Competitors48 from 9 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Victor Johnson  Great Britain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Émile Demangel  France
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Karl Neumer  Germany
Cycling at the
1908 Summer Olympics
Track cycling
660 yardsmen
5000 metresmen
20 kilometresmen
100 kilometresmen
Sprintmen
Tandemmen
Team pursuitmen

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. The 1908 Games was the only time when the 660 yards event was part of the Olympic cycling program.[1] Each nation could enter a maximum of 12 cyclists.[2]

Competition format

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The 660 yards race was a sprint-style race that consisted of a single lap around the track. The time limit for the race was 1 minute, 10 seconds. The competition was conducted in three rounds (heats, semifinals, and a final). The first round featured 16 heats, with up to 4 cyclists each. The winning cyclist advanced to the semifinals, provided that the time limit was not exceeded. The semifinal round comprised 4 semifinals, each with 4 cyclists except that 1 was reduced to 3 cyclists because one of the heats had resulted in no winner under the time limit. Again, the winning cyclist in each semifinal advanced to the final.

Results

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First round

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One cyclist from each of the 16 heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat 1

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Benjamin Jones  Great Britain 59.0 Q
2 Dorus Nijland  Netherlands Unknown

Heat 2

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 William Bailey  Great Britain 50.8 Q
2 Frederick McCarthy  Canada Unknown
3 Pierre Seginaud  France Unknown

Heat 3

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Clarence Kingsbury  Great Britain 57.4 Q
2 Rudolf Katzer  Germany Unknown
3 Georgius Damen  Netherlands Unknown

Heat 4

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Victor Johnson  Great Britain 56.2 Q
2 Jules Patou  Belgium Unknown
3 Richard Villepontoux  France Unknown

Heat 5

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The fifth heat was voided due to the two cyclists both exceeding the time limit of 70 seconds.

Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
— Maurice Schilles  France No time
Frank Shore  South Africa No time

Heat 6

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Émile Demangel  France 59.8 Q
2 George Summers  Great Britain Unknown
3 Andrew Hansson  Sweden Unknown

Heat 7

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Johannes van Spengen  Netherlands 58.2 Q
2 Hermann Martens  Germany Unknown
3 Joe Lavery  Great Britain Unknown

Heat 8

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Walter Andrews  Canada 55.8 Q
2 Joseph Werbrouck  Belgium Unknown
3 Gaston Delaplane  France Unknown

Heat 9

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Paul Texier  France 1:01.6 Q
2 Thomas Passmore  South Africa Unknown

Heat 10

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Floris Venter  South Africa 1:03.2 Q
2 Georges Perrin  France Unknown
3 Bruno Götze  Germany Unknown

Heat 11

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Karl Neumer  Germany 54.2 Q
2 Willie Mage  Great Britain Unknown
3 Émile Maréchal  France Unknown
4 Antonie Gerrits  Netherlands Unknown

Heat 12

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Ernest Payne  Great Britain 57.2 Q
2 André Poulain  France Unknown
3 Jean Van Benthem  Belgium Unknown

Heat 13

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Daniel Flynn  Great Britain 55.0 Q
2 Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein  Netherlands Unknown
3 Paul Schulze  Germany Unknown

Heat 14

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Lucien Renard  Belgium 55.2 Q
2 Gaston Dreyfus  France Unknown
3 William Morton  Canada Unknown
4 George Anderson  Great Britain Unknown

Heat 15

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 George Cameron  United States 1:05.2 Q
2 Léon Coeckelberg  Belgium Unknown

Heat 16

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 André Auffray  France 58.4 Q
2 Albert Denny  Great Britain Unknown
3 Philipus Freylinck  South Africa Unknown

Semifinals

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The fastest cyclist in each of the 4 semifinals advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Victor Johnson  Great Britain 59.2 Q
2 Johannes van Spengen  Netherlands Unknown
3 Paul Texier  France Unknown
4 Walter Andrews  Canada Unknown

Semifinal 2

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Émile Demangel  France 51.6 Q
2 Clarence Kingsbury  Great Britain Unknown
3 William Bailey  Great Britain Unknown
4 Floris Venter  South Africa Unknown

Semifinal 3

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Daniel Flynn  Great Britain 54.8 Q
2 André Auffray  France Unknown
3 George Cameron  United States Unknown
4 Ernest Payne  Great Britain Unknown

Semifinal 4

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time Notes
1 Karl Neumer  Germany 1:05.6 Q
2 Lucien Renard  Belgium Unknown
3 Benjamin Jones  Great Britain Unknown

Final

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Rank Cyclist Nation Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Victor Johnson  Great Britain 51.2
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Émile Demangel  France Unknown
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Karl Neumer  Germany Unknown
4 Daniel Flynn  Great Britain Unknown

References

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  1. ^ Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 210. ISBN 0140066322.
  2. ^ Official Report, p.33.

Sources

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  • 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 [1] Archived 2014-05-05 at the Wayback Machine.
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