Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's sprint

The women's track cycling sprint competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics was held from 21 to 24 September. Estonian rider competing for the USSR Erika Salumäe won gold, while East Germany's Christa Luding-Rothenburger won silver and Connie Paraskevin-Young of the United States won bronze.[1]

Competition format

The competition was held as a knock-out tournament, preceded by a qualifying round.

The qualifying round had all participants complete one timed individual sprint, with their times deciding seeding in the eighth-finals. No cyclists were eliminated.

In the knock-out stages, the winners of each sprint progressed to the next round. The eighth-finals were held as four sprints with three cyclists in each, with following repechages for the second and third placed. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals were contested head-to-head, best of three sprints. In addition, a one-off four-cyclist sprint was held to decide fifth to eighth places.

Schedule

Date	Round
21 September	Qualification
	1/8 finals
	1/8 repechage
22 September	1/4 finals
23 September	Semi-finals
	Final (5th–8th places)
24 September	Final

Results

Qualification

Rank	Name	Time
1	Erika Salumäe (URS)	11.527 OR
2	Isabelle Gautheron (FRA)	11.611
3	Christa Luding-Rothenburger (GDR)	11.692
4	Connie Paraskevin-Young (USA)	11.845
5	Julie Speight (AUS)	11.955
6	Louise Jones (GBR)	12.287
7	Elisabetta Fanton (ITA)	12.303
8	Yang Hsiu-chen (TPE)	12.374
9	Kim Jin-yeong (KOR)	12.416
10	Seiko Hashimoto (JPN)	12.425
11	Zhou Suying (CHN)	12.477
12	Beth Tabor (CAN)	12.588

Eighth-finals

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Time	Note
1	Erika Salumäe (URS)	12.83	Q
2	Yang Hsiu-chen (TPE)		R
3	Kim Jin-yeong (KOR)		R

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Time	Note
1	Isabelle Gautheron (FRA)	12.22	Q
2	Seiko Hashimoto (JPN)		R
3	Elisabetta Fanton (ITA)		R

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Time	Note
1	Christa Luding-Rothenburger (GDR)	12.24	Q
2	Zhou Suying (CHN)		R
3	Louise Jones (GBR)		R

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Time	Note
1	Connie Paraskevin-Young (USA)	12.11	Q
2	Julie Speight (AUS)		R
3	Beth Tabor (CAN)		R

Q

Qualified for next round

R

Qualified for repechage

Repechages

Heat 1

Name	Time	Note
Yang Hsiu-chen (TPE)	12.80	Q
Beth Tabor (CAN)

Heat 2

Name	Time	Note
Seiko Hashimoto (JPN)
Louise Jones (GBR)	12.36	Q

Heat 3

Name	Time	Note
Zhou Suying (CHN)	12.65	Q
Elisabetta Fanton (ITA)

Heat 4

Name	Time	Note
Julie Speight (AUS)	13.04	Q
Kim Jin-yeong (KOR)

Q

Qualified for next round

Quarter-finals

Heat 1

Name	Time 1	Time 2	Time 3	Note
Erika Salumäe (URS)	12.34	11.81	–	Q
Louise Jones (GBR)			–

Heat 2

Name	Time 1	Time 2	Time 3	Note
Isabelle Gautheron (FRA)	12.13	11.90	–	Q
Yang Hsiu-chen (TPE)			–

Heat 3

Name	Time 1	Time 2	Time 3	Note
Christa Luding-Rothenburger (GDR)	11.80	11.63	–	Q
Julie Speight (AUS)			–

Heat 4

Name	Time 1	Time 2	Time 3	Note
Connie Paraskevin-Young (USA)	12.85	12.94	–	Q
Zhou Suying (CHN)			–

Q

Qualified for next round

Semi-finals

Heat 1

Name	Time 1	Time 2	Time 3	Note
Erika Salumäe (URS)	12.38	12.22	–	Q
Connie Paraskevin-Young (USA)			–

Heat 2

Name	Time 1	Time 2	Time 3	Note
Isabelle Gautheron (FRA)		11.79
Christa Luding-Rothenburger (GDR)	11.92		11.89	Q

Q

Qualified for next round

Finals

Fifth to eighth places

Rank	Name	Time	Note
5	Julie Speight (AUS)	12.56
6	Zhou Suying (CHN)
7	Louise Jones (GBR)
8	Yang Hsiu-chen (TPE)

Bronze medal final

Rank	Name	Time 1	Time 2	Time 3	Note
	Connie Paraskevin-Young (USA)	14.07	12.41	–
4	Isabelle Gautheron (FRA)			–

Gold medal final

Rank	Name	Time 1	Time 2	Time 3	Note
	Erika Salumäe (URS)		12.00	12.58
	Christa Luding-Rothenburger (GDR)	11.68

References

1. "Cycling at the 1988 Summer Games: Women's Sprint". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2016.

External links

• "Official report of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games" (PDF). International Olympic Committee/LA84 Foundation. p. 359. Retrieved 21 August 2014. (results, see page 213 in PDF)