One of the fastest and most thrilling cycling events in the Olympics, the Team Sprint is the quickest team time trial you'll ever see. Three of the strongest sprinters in the men's event, and two for the women, take off from a standstill with each rider pulling all-out for one lap before the final rider makes a mad dash for the line. The fastest team is declared the winner.
This adrenaline-filled event has been in the Olympic Games since 2000 and, in its debut in Sydney, the French greats Florian Rousseau, Arnaud Tournant and Laurent Gane dominated the young British squad.
In 2004, it was the Germans, with Jens Fiedler, Stefan Nimke and René Wolff, who claimed gold over the Japanese. Since then, however, the Team Sprint has been a happy hunting ground for the British, with Chris Hoy leading the trio to gold with Jason Kenny in 2008 and 2012, while Kenny took up the mantle in 2016.
It took the Netherlands trio of Jeffrey Hoogland, Harrie Lavreysen and Roy van den Burg to break the Brit stanglehold in Tokyo 2020, not only winning their country's first track gold in 85 years, but setting a new Olympic record of 41.169 seconds in the process.
