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

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]

Men's 660 yards
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
VenueWhite City Stadium
DatesJuly 14–15
Competitors48 from 9 nations
Medalists
Victor Johnson  Great Britain
Émile Demangel  France
Karl Neumer  Germany
Cycling at the
1908 Summer Olympics
Track cycling
660 yardsmen
5000 metresmen
20 kilometresmen
100 kilometresmen
Sprintmen
Tandemmen
Team pursuitmen

Competition format

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

First round

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

Heat 1
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Benjamin Jones Great Britain59.0Q
2Dorus Nijland NetherlandsUnknown

Heat 2
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1William Bailey Great Britain50.8Q
2Frederick McCarthy CanadaUnknown
3Pierre Seginaud FranceUnknown

Heat 3
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Clarence Kingsbury Great Britain57.4Q
2Rudolf Katzer GermanyUnknown
3Georgius Damen NetherlandsUnknown

Heat 4
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Victor Johnson Great Britain56.2Q
2Jean Patou BelgiumUnknown
3Richard Villepontoux FranceUnknown

Heat 5

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

RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
—Maurice Schilles FranceNo time
Frank Shore South AfricaNo time

Heat 6
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Émile Demangel France59.8Q
2George Summers Great BritainUnknown
3Andrew Hansson SwedenUnknown

Heat 7
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Johannes van Spengen Netherlands58.2Q
2Hermann Martens GermanyUnknown
3Joe Lavery Great BritainUnknown

Heat 8
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Walter Andrews Canada55.8Q
2Joseph Werbrouck BelgiumUnknown
3Gaston Delaplane FranceUnknown

Heat 9
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Paul Texier France1:01.6Q
2Thomas Passmore South AfricaUnknown

Heat 10
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Floris Venter South Africa1:03.2Q
2Georges Perrin FranceUnknown
3Bruno Götze GermanyUnknown

Heat 11
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Karl Neumer Germany54.2Q
2W. F. Magee Great BritainUnknown
3Émile Maréchal FranceUnknown
4Antonie Gerrits NetherlandsUnknown

Heat 12
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Ernest Payne Great Britain57.2Q
2André Poulain FranceUnknown
3Jean Van Benthem BelgiumUnknown

Heat 13
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Daniel Flynn Great Britain55.0Q
2Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein NetherlandsUnknown
3Paul Schulze GermanyUnknown

Heat 14
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Lucien Renard Belgium55.2Q
2Gaston Dreyfus FranceUnknown
3William Morton CanadaUnknown
4George Anderson Great BritainUnknown

Heat 15
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1George Cameron United States1:05.2Q
2Léon Coeckelberg BelgiumUnknown

Heat 16
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1André Auffray France58.4Q
2Albert Denny Great BritainUnknown
3Philipus Freylinck South AfricaUnknown

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Victor Johnson Great Britain59.2Q
2Johannes van Spengen NetherlandsUnknown
3Paul Texier FranceUnknown
4Walter Andrews CanadaUnknown

Semifinal 2
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Émile Demangel France51.6Q
2Clarence Kingsbury Great BritainUnknown
3William Bailey Great BritainUnknown
4Floris Venter South AfricaUnknown

Semifinal 3
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Daniel Flynn Great Britain54.8Q
2André Auffray FranceUnknown
3George Cameron United StatesUnknown
4Ernest Payne Great BritainUnknown

Semifinal 4
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Karl Neumer Germany1:05.6Q
2Lucien Renard BelgiumUnknown
3Benjamin Jones Great BritainUnknown

Final
RankCyclistNationTime
Victor Johnson Great Britain51.2
Émile Demangel FranceUnknown
Karl Neumer GermanyUnknown
4Daniel Flynn Great BritainUnknown

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

Sources
  • 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 .
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