Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint

Cycling - Men's sprint at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Seoul Olympic Velodrome
Dates	21-24 September
Competitors	25
Medalists
Lutz Heßlich  East Germany Nikolai Kovsh  Soviet Union Gary Neiwand  Australia

The men's sprint cycling event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on from 21 to 24 September and was one of the nine cycling events at the 1988 Olympics.

Results

Qualifying round

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Lutz Heßlich	East Germany	10.395
2	Gary Neiwand	Australia	10.563
3	Nikolai Kovsh	Soviet Union	10.595
4	Vratislav Šustr	Czechoslovakia	10.704
5	Ken Carpenter	United States	10.792
6	Fabrice Colas	France	10.857
7	Frank Weber	West Germany	10.919
8	Eddie Alexander	Great Britain	10.930
9	José Manuel Moreno	Spain	10.931
10	Erik Schoefs	Belgium	11.032
11	Hideki Miwa	Japan	11.063
12	Andrea Faccini	Italy	11.073
13	Curt Harnett	Canada	11.144
14	Maxwell Cheeseman	Trinidad and Tobago	11.171
15	Gustavo Faris	Argentina	11.187
16	Rosman Alwi	Malaysia	11.204
17	Eom Yeong-seop	South Korea	11.222
18	Nelson Mario Pons	Ecuador	11.339
19	Lee Fu-hsiang	Chinese Taipei	11.475
20	Paul Réneau	Belize	11.732
21	Colin Abrams	Guyana	11.815
22	Vincent Lynch	Barbados	11.845
23	Michele Smith	Cayman Islands	12.055
24	Bailón Becerra	Bolivia	12.216
25	Ira Fabian	Antigua and Barbuda	12.817

Round one

Heat	Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time	Note
1	1	Lutz Heßlich	East Germany	11,25	Q
	3	Rosman Alwi	Malaysia
	2	Eom Yeong-seop	South Korea
2	1	Gary Neiwand	Australia	11,19	Q
	3	Gustavo Faris	Argentina
	2	Nelson Mario Pons	Ecuador
3	1	Nikolai Kovsh	Soviet Union	11,26	Q
	3	Maxwell Cheeseman	Trinidad and Tobago
	2	Lee Fu-hsiang	Chinese Taipei
4	1	Vratislav Šustr	Czechoslovakia	11,21	Q
	2	Curt Harnett	Canada
	3	Paul Réneau	Belize
5	2	Ken Carpenter	United States
	1	Andrea Faccini	Italy	11,74	Q
	3	Colin Abrams	Guyana
6	1	Fabrice Colas	France	10,77	Q
	2	Hideki Miwa	Japan
	3	Vincent Lynch	Barbados
7	2	Frank Weber	West Germany
	1	Erik Schoefs	Belgium	11,34	Q
	3	Michele Smith	Cayman Islands
8	1	Eddie Alexander	Great Britain	11,40	Q
	2	José Manuel Moreno	Spain
	3	Bailón Becerra	Bolivia

Round one repêchage

Heat	Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time	Note
1	3	Eom Yeong-seop	South Korea
	4	José Manuel Moreno	Spain
	2	Gustavo Faris	Argentina
	1	Maxwell Cheeseman	Trinidad and Tobago	12,11	Q
2	2	Nelson Mario Pons	Ecuador
	1	Frank Weber	West Germany	11,55	Q
	3	Bailón Becerra	Bolivia
	4	Colin Abrams	Guyana
3	2	Lee Fu-hsiang	Chinese Taipei
	1	Hideki Miwa	Japan	11,56	Q
	3	Paul Réneau	Belize
	4	Michele Smith	Cayman Islands
5	1	Curt Harnett	Canada	11,26	Q
	2	Ken Carpenter	United States
	4	Vincent Lynch	Barbados
	3	Rosman Alwi	Malaysia

Round two

Heat	Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time	Note
1	1	Lutz Heßlich	East Germany	11,04	Q
	2	Eddie Alexander	Great Britain
	3	Hideki Miwa	Japan
2	3	Gary Neiwand	Australia
	1	Erik Schoefs	Belgium	11,27	Q
	2	Curt Harnett	Canada
3	1	Nikolai Kovsh	Soviet Union	11,10	Q
	2	Fabrice Colas	France
	3	Frank Weber	West Germany
4	1	Vratislav Šustr	Czechoslovakia	11,13	Q
	3	Andrea Faccini	Italy
	2	Maxwell Cheeseman	Trinidad and Tobago

Round two repêchage

Heat	Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time	Note
1	1	Eddie Alexander	Great Britain	11,32	Q
	2	Andrea Faccini	Italy
2	2	Curt Harnett	Canada
	1	Frank Weber	West Germany	11,39	Q
3	2	Fabrice Colas	France
	1	Gary Neiwand	Australia	11,57	Q
4	1	Maxwell Cheeseman	Trinidad and Tobago	11,31	Q
	2	Hideki Miwa	Japan

Quarter finals

Heat	Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time 1	Time 2	Time 3	Note
1	1	Lutz Heßlich	East Germany	10,60	11,50		Q
	2	Frank Weber	West Germany
2	2	Erik Schoefs	Belgium	10,96
	1	Eddie Alexander	Great Britain		11,81	10,79	Q
3	1	Nikolai Kovsh	Soviet Union	11,77	11,05		Q
	2	Maxwell Cheeseman	Trinidad and Tobago
4	2	Vratislav Šustr	Czechoslovakia
	1	Gary Neiwand	Australia	10,92	11,37		Q

Semi finals

Heat	Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time 1	Time 2	Time 3	Note
1	1	Lutz Heßlich	East Germany	11,12	10,64		Q
	2	Gary Neiwand	Australia
2	2	Eddie Alexander	Great Britain
	1	Nikolai Kovsh	Soviet Union	11,09	11,90		Q

Finals

Heat	Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time 1	Time 2	Time 3
Final	1	Lutz Heßlich	East Germany	13,98	11,82
	2	Nikolai Kovsh	Soviet Union
Bronze medal match	1	Gary Neiwand	Australia	10,97	10,88
	2	Eddie Alexander	Great Britain