Cycling at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's tandem

Men's tandem at the Games of the VII Olympiad
Venue	Vélodrome d'Anvers Zuremborg
Dates	9–10 August
Competitors	22 from 6 nations
Medalists
Thomas Lance, Harry Ryan Great Britain   William Smith, James Walker South Africa   Frans de Vreng and Piet Ikelaar Netherlands

Cycling at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Individual time trial		men
Team time trial		men
Track cycling
Sprint	men
Tandem	men
50 km	men
Team pursuit	men

The men's tandem event was part of the track cycling programme at the 1920 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Results

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1

Place	Cyclists	Time	Qual.
1	Piet Ikelaar and Frans de Vreng (NED)	12.6	Q
2	Henry Andersen and Axel Hansen (DEN)
3	William Ormston and Henry Lee (GBR)

Quarterfinal 2

Place	Cyclists	Time	Qual.
1	William Smith and James Walker (RSA)	13.0	Q
2	John Verhoeven and Léonard Daghelinckx (BEL)
3	Pieter Beets and Tjabel Boonstra (NED)

Quarterfinal 3

Place	Cyclists	Time	Qual.
1	Harry Ryan and Thomas Lance (GBR)	12.0	Q
2	Sammy Goosen and George Thursfield (RSA)
3	Henri Bellivier and Georges Perrin (FRA)

Quarterfinal 4

Place	Cyclists	Time	Qual.
1	William Stewart and Cyril Alden (GBR)	15.6	Q
2	Frans Verschueren and Gustave Claessen (BEL)	DNF

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Place	Cyclists	Time	Qual.
1	Harry Ryan and Thomas Lance (GBR)	11.6	Q
2	Piet Ikelaar and Frans de Vreng (NED)

Semifinal 2

Place	Cyclists	Time	Qual.
1	William Smith and James Walker (RSA)	12.6	Q
2	William Stewart and Cyril Alden (GBR)

Final

Place	Cyclists	Time
1	Harry Ryan and Thomas Lance (GBR)	11.2
2	William Smith and James Walker (RSA)

Bronze medal match

Place	Cyclists	Time
3	Piet Ikelaar and Frans de Vreng (NED)
4	William Stewart and Cyril Alden (GBR)	DNF

References

External links

• Belgium Olympic Committee (1957). Olympic Games Antwerp 1920: Official Report (in French). 
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 26 August 2007.