The women's cycling sprint at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro took place on 14–16 August 2016.

[1] The medals were presented by Timothy Fok, IOC member, Hong Kong and Brian Cookson, President of the UCI.

The event is a single-elimination tournament after the qualifying phase via time trial.

Each match pitted two cyclists against each other in the best-of-three races base on their seeding in the qualifying phase.

Each race was three laps of the track with side-by-side starts.