Madison, Men
| Date | 10 August 2024 — 17:59 | |
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| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France | |
| Participants | 30 from 15 countries | |
| Format | 200 laps (50 km) with a sprint every 10 laps (2.5 km). Sprint points awarded - 5-3-2-1 - to the first four finishers, with points doubled in final sprint. | |
The chaotic and unpredictable Madison was once again on the Olympic programme for the Paris Games. The race was contested over 200 laps, for a distance of 50 km, with 20 sprints (every tenth lap) and the first over the line at each sprint receiving 5 points, with the next three receiving 3, 2 and 1 point, respectively. On the 200th and last lap, those points were doubled. If a team lapped the entire field, they received 20 extra points and, if they were themselves lapped, they had 20 points deducted.
From the Tokyo Games, only two of the six medalists, Michael Mørkøv (DEN) and Benjamin Thomas (FRA), returned to the track in Paris for the Maidson. Conversely, all the medalists from the Track World Championships in Glasgow started the race, including the gold medal winning Dutch duo of Yoeri Havik and Jan-Willem van Schip.
Raphael Kokas and Maximilian Schmidbauer of Austria won the opening sprint to take an early lead, but ultimately lost several laps on the field and failed to finish the race. The Italian team of Simone Consonni and Elia Viviani then won four of the next eight sprints to give them a strong lead by the mid-point of the race. Italy also gained a lap to earn the extra 20 points, as did the Portuguese pair of Iúri Leitão and Rui Oliveira, along with the Danish duo of Niklas Larsen and Michael Mørkøv.
On the final lap, the Portuguese team won the sprint to get the double points, finishing ahead of the German and Italian riders. The lap gains, however, were crucial in deciding the medal positions, with Portugal winning gold, Italy taking silver, and Denmark finishing with bronze. Aaron Gate and Campbell Stewart of New Zealand were the most consistent team, picking up points in 13 of the 20 sprints, but they failed make a lap gain, which meant that they finished outside the medals in fourth. The much-fancied Dutch team of Yoeri Havik and Jan-Willem van Schip were disqualified after the race for what was deemed to be “improper conduct and behavior that endangered another rider” when van Schip had earlier collided with Ollie Wood (GBR).
| Pos | Number | Pair | NOC | Points | Lap Points | Final Rank | Sprint 1 Points | Sprint 2 Points | Sprint 3 Points | Sprint 4 Points | Sprint 5 Points | Sprint 6 Points | Sprint 7 Points | Sprint 8 Points | Sprint 9 Points | Sprint 10 Points | Sprint 11 Points | Sprint 12 Points | Sprint 13 Points | Sprint 14 Points | Sprint 15 Points | Sprint 16 Points | Sprint 17 Points | Sprint 18 Points | Sprint 19 Points | Sprint 20 Points | |||
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| 1 | Black/Red | Iúri Leitão / Rui Oliveira |  POR | 55 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 5 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 10 | Gold | ||
| 2 | Black/Red | Simone Consonni / Elia Viviani |  ITA | 47 | 2 | 3 | – | – | 5 | – | – | 5 | – | 5 | 5 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 4 | Silver | ||
| 3 | Black/Red | Niklas Larsen / Michael Mørkøv |  DEN | 41 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 5 | – | 2 | 3 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 3 | – | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Black/Red | Aaron Gate / Campbell Stewart |  NZL | 33 | – | 4 | – | 2 | 1 | – | 2 | – | 5 | – | – | 3 | 3 | 1 | – | 3 | – | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 5 | Black/Red | Roger Kluge / Theo Reinhardt |  GER | 23 | – | 2 | – | – | – | 3 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 5 | – | 5 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||
| 6 | Black/Red | Shunsuke Imamura / Kazushige Kuboki |  JPN | 12 | – | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | 5 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | – | – | |||
| 7 | Black/Red | Denis Rugovac / Jan Voneš |  CZE | 12 | – | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 5 | – | – | – | – | 5 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 8 | Black/Red | Sebastián Mora / Albert Torres |  ESP | -5 | -20 | 12 | – | – | – | – | 5 | 3 | 3 | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 9 | Black/Red | Ollie Wood / Mark Stewart |  GBR | -9 | -20 | 9 | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | 3 | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 10 | Black/Red | Lindsay de Vylder / Fabio van den Bossche |  BEL | -11 | -20 | 10 | 3 | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 11 | Black/Red | Thomas Boudat / Benjamin Thomas |  FRA | -18 | -20 | 13 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 12 | Black/Red | Sam Welsford / Kelland O'Brien |  AUS | -49 | -60 | 7 | 2 | – | 3 | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| Black/Red | Mathias Guillemette / Michael Foley |  CAN | – | -40 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Black/Red | Raphael Kokas / Maximilian Schmidbauer |  AUT | – | -60 | – | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Black/Red | Yoeri Havik / Jan-Willem van Schip |  NED | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |