Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's tandem

Men's tandem at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	White City Stadium
Dates	July 13–15
Competitors	34 from 7 nations
Medalists
France (FRA) André Auffray, Maurice Schilles    Great Britain (GBR) Frederick Hamlin, Horace Johnson    Great Britain (GBR) Colin Brooks, William Isaacs

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 2000 metre tandem was one of seven track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. The time limit for the race was 4 minutes.

Results

First round

The fastest team in each of the seven heats and the fastest second-place team overall advanced to the semifinals.

The competition was held on Monday, July 13, 1908 starting at 4.15 p.m. (first four heats) and at 5.15 p.m. (remaining three heats).

Heat 1
Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	Colin Brooks William Isaacs	Great Britain (GBR)	3:09.4
2	Alwin Boldt Hermann Martens	Germany (GER)	5 lengths behind

Heat 2
Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	Frederick Hamlin Horace Johnson	Great Britain (GBR)	3:14.8
2	Marc Texier Pierre Texier	France (FRA)	4 lengths behind

Heat 3
Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	Max Götze Otto Götze[1]	Germany (GER)	2:55.6[2]
2	Charles Avrillon Joseph Guyader	France (FRA)	bare wheel
3	Cecil McKaig Edward Piercy	Great Britain (GBR)	2 lengths behind 2nd

Heat 4
Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	Léon Coeckelberg Jean Patou	Belgium (BEL)	2:25.0
2	John Barnard Arthur Rushen	Great Britain (GBR)	1.2 lengths behind
3	Andrew Hansson Gustaf Westerberg	Sweden (SWE)	beaten off

Heat 5
Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	André Auffray Maurice Schilles	France (FRA)	3:11.4
2	Philipus Frylink Floris Venter	South Africa (RSA)	1 length behind

Heat 6
Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	François Bonnet Octave Lapize	France (FRA)	3:06.8
2	R. Jolly J. Norman	Great Britain (GBR)	6 lengths behind

Heat 7
Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	John Matthews Leonard Meredith	Great Britain (GBR)	2:43.2
2	Gaston Dreyfus André Poulain	France (FRA)	2 lengths behind
3	Frederick McCarthy William Morton	Canada (CAN)	beaten off

Semifinals

The fastest team in each heat as well as the fastest second-place team overall advanced to the final.

The competition was held on Wednesday, July 15, 1908 starting at 5 p.m.

Semifinal 1
Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	Frederick Hamlin Horace Johnson	Great Britain (GBR)	2:42.2
2	Colin Brooks William Isaacs	Great Britain (GBR)	6 lengths behind
3	Max Götze Otto Götze[1]	Germany (GER)	Unknown
4	Léon Coeckelberg Jean Patou	Belgium (BEL)	Unknown

Semifinal 2
Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	André Auffray Maurice Schilles	France (FRA)	2:46.2
2	John Matthews Leonard Meredith	Great Britain (GBR)	1 length behind
3	John Barnard Arthur Rushen	Great Britain (GBR)	Unknown
4	François Bonnet Octave Lapize	France (FRA)	Unknown

Final

The final was held on Wednesday, July 15, 1908 at 5.45 p.m.

Final
Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	André Auffray Maurice Schilles	France (FRA)	3:07.6
2	Frederick Hamlin Horace Johnson	Great Britain (GBR)	Unknown
3	Colin Brooks William Isaacs	Great Britain (GBR)	Unknown

Notes

1. The official report shows as second team member Karl Neumer.
2. Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 10 January 2007. The Official Report gives a time of 2:05.6; however, from its descriptions of second place finishes that time would have resulted in Avrillon and Guyader advancing to the semifinals as the fastest losers. Wudarski gives a time of 2:55.6, which fits with other results and may indicate a transcription or typographical error in the Official Report.

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 .