| Women's cycling sprint at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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| Venue | Rio Olympic Velodrome | ||||||||||||
| Date | 14–16 August 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 27 from 17 nations | ||||||||||||
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Kristina Vogel |
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Becky James |
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Katy Marchant |
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The women's cycling sprint at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro took place on 14–16 August 2016.
The event is a single-elimination tournament after the qualifying phase via time trial. Each match pitted two cyclists against each other in the best-of-three races base on their seeding in the qualifying phase. Each race was three laps of the track with side-by-side starts.
All times are Brasília Time (UTC-03:00)