Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint

This was the 26th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics except 1904 and 1912. Four of the quarterfinalists from 2012 returned: gold medalist (and 2008 silver medalist) Jason Kenny of Great Britain, silver medalist Grégory Baugé of France, fourth-place finisher Njisane Phillip of Trinidad and Tobago, and fifth-place finisher Denis Dmitriev of Russia. Baugé had won the 2015 world championship (adding to his 2009–12 run, though the 2011 title had been stripped from him) and Dmitriev had been a fixture on the world championships podium throughout the four years since the last Games. Kenny had struggled for much of that period, but had a strong 2016 including a victory over Matthew Glaetzer of Australia in the 2016 worlds final.{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/356742 |work=Olympedia |title=Sprint, Men |access-date=18 November 2020}}

No nations made their debut in the men's sprint. France made its 26th appearance, the only nation to have competed at every appearance of the event.

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There were 27 quota places available for the sprint. The nine nations qualified for the team sprint event could enter two members of the team in the individual sprint. The other nine places were assigned to nations based on the 2014–16 UCI track rankings, with one place for each of the top nine nations not qualified through team sprint.

The event was a single-elimination tournament, with repechages after the first two rounds, after seeding via time trial. The time trial involved an 875-metre distance, but with only the last 200 metres timed. All other races were 750 metres (three laps of the track) with side-by-side starts, with time kept for the last 200 metres. The first two main rounds featured single head-to-head races, with winners advancing and losers competing in repechages. Repechage races were contested by up to 3 cyclists. Beginning with the quarterfinals, each match pitted two cyclists against each other in best-of-three races.{{Cite web |url=http://www.london2012.com/cycling-track/event/men-sprint/competition-format/index.html |title=Sprint format competition |access-date=2020-11-18 |archive-date=2012-09-04 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904071419/www.london2012.com/cycling-track/event/men-sprint/competition-format/index.html |url-status=dead }}

The records for the sprint are 200 metre flying time trial records, kept for the qualifying round in later Games as well as for the finish of races.

{{World Olympic Record

| world_athlete = {{flagathlete|François Pervis|FRA}}

| world_mark = 9.347

| world_place = Aguascalientes, Mexico

| world_date = 30 May 2009

| olympic_athlete = {{flagIOCathlete|Jason Kenny|GBR|2012 Summer}}

| olympic_mark = 9.713

| olympic_place = London, United Kingdom

| olympic_date = 4 August 2012

}}

Callum Skinner set a new Olympic record of 9.703 seconds in the qualifying round, but Jason Kenny regained the record with his time of 9.551. Matthew Glaetzer also finished under the old record time.

All times are Brasília Time (UTC−03:00)

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