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

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Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Track cycling
660 yards		men
5000 metres		men
20 kilometres		men
100 kilometres		men
Sprint		men
Tandem		men
Team pursuit		men

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, comprising a single lap of the track. The time limit for the race was 1 minute, 10 seconds.

Contents 1 Medallists 2 Results 2.1 First round 2.1.1 Heat 1 2.1.2 Heat 2 2.1.3 Heat 3 2.1.4 Heat 4 2.1.5 Heat 5 2.1.6 Heat 6 2.1.7 Heat 7 2.1.8 Heat 8 2.1.9 Heat 9 2.1.10 Heat 10 2.1.11 Heat 11 2.1.12 Heat 12 2.1.13 Heat 13 2.1.14 Heat 14 2.1.15 Heat 15 2.1.16 Heat 16 2.2 Semifinals 2.2.1 Semifinal 1 2.2.2 Semifinal 2 2.2.3 Semifinal 3 2.2.4 Semifinal 4 2.3 Final 3 Sources

[edit] Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Victor Johnson Great Britain	Émile Demangel France	Karl Neumer Germany

[edit] Results

[edit] First round

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

[edit] Heat 1

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Benjamin Jones	Great Britain	59 seconds
2	Dorus Nijland	Netherlands	Unknown

[edit] Heat 2

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	William Bailey	Great Britain	50.8 seconds
2	Frederick McCarthy	Canada	Unknown
3	Pierre Seginaud	France	Unknown

[edit] Heat 3

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Clarence Kingsbury	Great Britain	57.4 seconds
2	Rudolf Katzer	Germany	Unknown
3	Georgius Damen	Netherlands	Unknown

[edit] Heat 4

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Victor Johnson	Great Britain	56.2 seconds
2	Jean Patou	Belgium	Unknown
3	R. Villepontoux	France	Unknown

[edit] Heat 5

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

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
—	Maurice Schilles	France	No time
	F. Shore	South Africa	No time

[edit] Heat 6

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Émile Demangel	France	59.8 seconds
2	George Summers	Great Britain	Unknown
3	Andrew Hansen	Sweden	Unknown

[edit] Heat 7

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Johannes van Spengen	Netherlands	58.2 seconds
2	Hermann Martens	Germany	Unknown
3	J. L. Lavery	Great Britain	Unknown

[edit] Heat 8

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Walter Andrews	Canada	55.8 seconds
2	Joseph Werbrouck	Belgium	Unknown
3	Gaston Delaplane	France	Unknown

[edit] Heat 9

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Pierre Texier	France	1:01.6
2	T. H. E. Passmore	South Africa	Unknown

[edit] Heat 10

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Floris Venter	South Africa	1:03.2
2	Georges Perrin	France	Unknown
3	Bruno Götze	Germany	Unknown

[edit] Heat 11

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Karl Neumer	Germany	54.2 seconds
2	W. F. Magee	Great Britain	Unknown
3	Émile Marechal	France	Unknown
4	Antonie Gerrits	Netherlands	Unknown

[edit] Heat 12

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Ernest Payne	Great Britain	57.2 seconds
2	André Poulain	France	Unknown
3	Jean van Benthem	Belgium	Unknown

[edit] Heat 13

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Daniel Flynn	Great Britain	55.0 seconds
2	Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein	Netherlands	Unknown
3	Paul Schulze	Germany	Unknown

[edit] Heat 14

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Lucien Renard	Belgium	55.2 seconds
2	G. Dreyfus	France	Unknown
3	William Morton	Canada	Unknown
4	G. C. Anderson	Great Britain	Unknown

[edit] Heat 15

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	George Cameron	United States of America	1:05.2
2	Léon Couckelberg	Belgium	Unknown

[edit] Heat 16

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	André Auffray	France	58.4 seconds
2	Arthur J. Denny	Great Britain	Unknown
3	Philipus Frylink	South Africa	Unknown

[edit] Semifinals

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

[edit] Semifinal 1

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Victor Johnson	Great Britain	59.2 seconds
2	Johannes van Spengen	Netherlands	Unknown
3	Pierre Texier	France	Unknown
4	Walter Andrews	Canada	Unknown

[edit] Semifinal 2

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Émile Demangel	France	51.6 seconds
2	Clarence Kingsbury	Great Britain	Unknown
3	William Bailey	Great Britain	Unknown
4	Floris Venter	South Africa	Unknown

[edit] Semifinal 3

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Daniel Flynn	Great Britain	54.8 seconds
2	André Auffray	France	Unknown
3	George Cameron	United States of America	Unknown
4	Ernest Payne	Great Britain	Unknown

[edit] Semifinal 4

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Karl Neumer	Germany	1:05.6
2	Lucien Renard	Belgium	Unknown
3	Benjamin Jones	Great Britain	Unknown

[edit] Final

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Victor Johnson	Great Britain	51.2 seconds
2	Émile Demangel	France	Unknown
3	Karl Neumer	Germany	Unknown
4	Daniel Flynn	Great Britain	Unknown

[edit] 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 [1].