Track sprint: How the 2024 Paris track sprint works

The need to know about the sprint competition at the Olympic Games

IZU, JAPAN - AUGUST 07: (L-R) Anastasiia Voinova of Team ROC and Lea Sophie Friedrich of Team Germany sprint during the Women's sprint round of 8 finals - heat 1 of the track cycling on day filthen of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Izu Velodrome on August 07, 2021 in Izu, Shizuoka, Japan. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)
Anastasiia Voinova of Team ROC and Lea Sophie Friedrich of Team Germany sprint during the Women's sprint round at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
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The track sprint (match sprint or just sprint) is a regular event at the Olympic Games and will feature again for men and women at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The sprint has been in the Games in every edition aside from 1904 for the men, with women competing since 1988.

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