Tokyo Olympics: Men's Individual Track Sprint

Winner of the past two World Championship titles, Harrie Lavreysen enters the Tokyo Olympics as the fastest men’s track cyclist in the world and favourite to win gold by a bit of margin.

Competing in his first Olympic Games, the Dutch rider could leave the Japanese capital with a total of three gold medals, as the 24-year-old will also compete in the team sprint and keirin events, where he is also the favourite.

Without an Olympic champion in the men’s individual sprint since 1932, Lavreysen is priced at 6/5 to become the first post-war Dutch winner.

Having experienced a revival on the track, Dutch cycling is thriving heading into the 2020 Olympics, with Jeffrey Hoogland the second favourite to triumph in the sprint. And, after finishing as runner-up to Lavreysen in each of the last two World Championships, Hoogland will be looking to finally get the better of his compatriot and win a maiden Olympic gold.

He was knocked out at the quarter-finals stage at the 2016 Olympics and the 28-year-old is expected to be amongst the medals this time around and is priced at 3/1 to win the title, but the gold might once again go to his compatriot.

It’s 18 years since a rider who wasn’t British won the individual sprint at an Olympics, with Jason Kenny looking to make it three consecutive golds in this event and continue the Team GB dominance in cycling that is now spanning over a decade.

After picking up the mantle from Chris Hoy at London 2012, Kenny went onto win gold again in Rio four years later and is on the search for a famous treble in Tokyo which will no doubt put him. asone of Great Britain's best-ever athletes on the track.

It’s unlikely the 33-year-old will be able to match the speed of the Dutch duo tipped as favourites, but Kenny has been there and done it before.

It’s a healthy 6/1 he’ll make it three in a row, but at 33, the younger Dutch might take the top spots on the podium.

Former European champion, Mateusz Rudyk will compete in his first Olympic games with hopes of causing a shock victory on the track. Now, after failing to qualify for the 2016 games, the Polish rider has since established himself as a constant on the world circuit and could be an outside shot for a medal.

A bronze medallist at the 2019 World Championships, Rudyk will have his lofty sights on gold and is priced at 14/1 to be crowned Olympic champion, but he just seems a little bit too far behind the British and the Dutch in Tokyo.

A consistent medallist in the men’s individual sprint, Matthew Glaetzer, represents Australia’s best chance of gold at the Tokyo games. Crowned world champion in 2018, the 28-year-old will be looking to replicate his form from three years ago and become the first Australian individual sprinter since Ryan Bayley in 2004 to win Olympic gold.

Whilst an outside shot to finish on the top step of the podium, Glaetzer knows what it takes to win a major title and is 14/1 to pick up gold.