Hat-Trick of Golds for Hoy

One would reasonably expect the reigning World Sprint Champion Chris Hoy to top the 200m TT Qualification at the Olympic Games with an Olympic Record of 9.815s, but nobody expected Jason Kenny to have broken the Olympic record earlier in the TT with a stunning time of 9.857s to finish second fastest

Both riders were the only two sub10ers with Stefan Nimke of Germany perhaps pulling off a surprise performance to clock 10.064s, the third fastest time ahead of World Championship Silver Medallist Kevin Sireau who did a 10.098s

Dutch rider Theo Bos, who has multiple World titles and the Silver Medal from Athens to his name appears to be seriously off-form with a 10.318s only good enough for ninth place

Round One saw Hoy and Kenny make light work of their opposition, with Chris easily beating Russian Denis Dmitriev in 10.607s and Kenny doing the same to Lukasz Kwiatkowski of Poland in 10.672s

The 1/8 Finals saw Japanese rider Kazunari Watanabe fail to trouble Hoy, who made the Quarters in 10.636s just before Jason Kenny beat Azizu Awang of Malaysia in a tight finish

In other results World Kilo Champion and Keirin Silver Medallist in Manchester put his disappointing performance in yesterdays Keirin behind him when he knocked out third fastest qualifier Stefan Nimke in 10.888s, whereas France's Mickael Bourgain beat Italian veteran Roberto Chiappa in 10.734s



Shock of the round had to be the return to form of Theo Bos, who progressed through to tomorrow's Quarter Finals when World Cup Champion Kevin Sireau was relegated allowing Bos to take the victory and a chance of revenge in the final stages of the competition

The Quarter Finals saw Hoy face Malaysia's rising star Azizu Awang, who looked like a child in comparison to the huge Hoy, but this didn't put off Awang after he lost the first sprint he took the second into a lengthly track stand that forced the sprint to be restarted, Hoy then effortlessly progressed to the Semis

Next up it was World's Silver Medallist Kevin Sireau of France against Britain's Jason Kenny who yet again made it look oh so easy, leaving Sireau looking as if he simply did not know what to do in order to beat young Jason

With the final result of the Sprint looking like a formallity the battle for the minor placings, and already at the Quarter stage it looks like a battle for the Bronze, the sprints with non-British riders in are much more interesting and close encounters

This was evident in the Levy v Mulder quarter as Levy out-witted the Dutchman with the same tactics in both heats to make the semis

The same can be said for Bourgain v Bos, which produced some incredible sprinting, with the tactically superior frenchman putting former World Champion Theo Bos in his place and progressing to the Semis, one wonders if this is the end of Theo Bos?

Bourgain v Hoy in the Semi-Finals would normally be a mouth-watering tie, with Bourgain, arguably the best tactically sprinter around the overwhelming favourite in the past, but with current form Hoy was unstoppable, never did Bourgain look like the tactical wizard he normally is as Hoy simply powered away from the Frenchman to win with ease in straight heats



The surprise of the competition was has to be Jason Kenny's dominance of the sprint, Max Levy wouldn't normally trouble the youngster and he didn't today as the rider from Bolton stormed into the final without breaking sweat

The Bronze medal ride off saw Bourgain get a much deserved victory and an Olympic medal that rewards his consistency throughout the season from the Sydney World Cup to today, Bourgain has always been on top of his sprinting

The final was an all British affair, you can argue that British Cycling would decide the result given the PR value of a triple Gold medallist in one games, but Kenny was having none of it, coming back from a humiliation in Heat One to almost stealing the glory in Heat Two, but despite it a tussle in the home straight it was Hoy who made history and become the greatest British Olympian ever!

Final Results

1. HOY Chris Great Britain 10.228  10.216  
2. KENNY Jason Great Britain   

3. BOURGAIN Mickael France 11.047   10.560 
4. LEVY Maximilian Germany  10.666 

5-8th Final

5. SIREAU Kevin France 10.719 67.170
6. MULDER Teun Netherlands  
7. BOS Theo Netherlands  
8. AWANG Mohd Azizulhasni Malaysia

9-12 Final Result

9. NIMKE Stefan Germany 11.051 65.152
10. CHIAPPA Roberto Italy  
11. BAYLEY Ryan Australia  
12. WATANABE Kazunari Japan

Semi Final Results

1.  HOY Chris Great Britain 10.260  10.358  

2. BOURGAIN Mickael France   

 

1.  KENNY Jason Great Britain 10.594  10.335  
2.  LEVY Maximilian Germany 

1/4 Final Results

Heat 1
1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain)     
2 Azizu Awang  (Malaysia)
 
Heat 2
1 Jason Kenny (Great Britain)    
2 Kevin Sireau      (France)
 
Heat 3
1 Max Levy (Germany)
2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands)      
 
Heat 4
1 Mickael Bourgain (France)
2 Theo Bos (Netherlands)                 

1/8 Final Results

Heat 1
1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain)      0.10.636 (67.694 km/h)
2 Kazunari Watanabe (Japan)              
 
Heat 2
1 Jason Kenny (Great Britain)    0.10.531 (68.369 km/h)
2 Mohd Azizulhasni Awang (Malaysia)      
 
Heat 3
1 Teun Mulder (Netherlands)      0.10.888 (66.127 km/h)
2 Stefan Nimke (Germany)                 
 
Heat 4
1 Theo Bos (Netherlands)         0.10.777 (66.808 km/h)
REL Kevin Sireau (France)                
 
Heat 5
1 Mickael Bourgain (France)      0.10.734 (67.076 km/h)
2 Roberto Chiappa (Italy)                
 
Heat 6
1 Maximilian Levy (Germany)      0.10.763 (66.895 km/h)
2 Ryan Bayley (Australia)   

1/16 Final Results

Heat 1
1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain)      0.10.607 (67.879 km/h)
2 Denis Dmitriev (Russia)                

Heat 2
1 Jason Kenny (Great Britain)    0.10.672 (67.466 km/h)
2 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland)            

Heat 3
1 Stefan Nimke (Germany)         0.10.828 (66.494 km/h)
2 Lei Zhang (China)                      

Heat 4
1 Kevin Sireau (France)          0.10.742 (67.026 km/h)
2 Michael Blatchford (United States)     

Heat 5
1 Mickael Bourgain (France)      0.10.562 (68.168 km/h)
2 Tsubasa Kitatsuru (Japan)              

Heat 6
1 Maximilian Levy (Germany)      0.10.840 (66.420 km/h)
2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands)              

Heat 7
1 Ryan Bayley (Australia)        0.10.762 (66.902 km/h)
2 Mohd Azizulhasni Awang (Malaysia)      

Heat 8
1 Roberto Chiappa (Italy)        0.10.786 (v km/h)
2 Kazunari Watanabe (Japan)              

Heat 9
1 Theo Bos (Netherlands)         0.10.959 (65.699 km/h)
2 Mark French (Australia)        

Qualification Results

 1. HOY Chris Great Britain 9.815 73.357 OR

 2. KENNY Jason Great Britain 9.857 73.044 

 3. NIMKE Stefan Germany 10.064 71.542 

 4. SIREAU Kevin France 10.098 71.301 

 5. BOURGAIN Mickael France 10.123 71.125 

 6. LEVY Maximilian Germany 10.199 70.595 

 7. AWANG Mohd Azizulhasni Malaysia 10.272 70.093 

 8. CHIAPPA Roberto Italy 10.314 69.808 

 9. BOS Theo Netherlands 10.318 69.780 

10. FRENCH Mark Australia 10.337 69.652 

11. WATANABE Kazunari Japan 10.346 69.592 

12. BAYLEY Ryan Australia 10.362 69.484 

13. MULDER Teun Netherlands 10.373 69.410 

14. KITATSURU Tsubasa Japan 10.391 69.290 

15. BLATCHFORD Michael United States 10.470 68.767 

16. ZHANG Lei China 10.497 68.591 

17. KWIATKOWSKI Lukasz Poland 10.504 68.545 

18. DMITRIEV Denis Russian Fed. 10.565 68.149 

19. PTACNIK Adam Czech Republic 10.569 68.123 

20. REPPAS Vasileios Greece 10.966 65.657 

21. NOVIKOV Daniel Estonia 11.187 64.360