{"id":6984,"date":"2015-08-14T19:40:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/track-sprint-explained\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:42:07","slug":"track-sprint-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/en\/track-sprint-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sprint is one of the oldest events in cycling. The men&#8217;s World Championship has been contested since 1893 (women since 1958), and Olympic medals since 1896 (women since 1988).<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the length of the track, it is raced over two or three laps. At major competitions two athletes race each other, and the winner is decided by being first across the finish line twice.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube height=&#8221;HEIGHT&#8221; width=&#8221;WIDTH&#8221;]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ulj5x3wZqeQ[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p><em>Translated from Georgian with the assistance of Claude (Anthropic), reviewed by the Velorbola editors.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sprint is one of the oldest events in cycling.  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,348],"tags":[455,454],"class_list":["post-6984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","category-track","tag-track-cycling","tag-track-sprint"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sprint-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6992,"href":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6984\/revisions\/6992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}