Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit

Men's team pursuit at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	White City Stadium
Date	July 17
Competitors	20 from 5 nations
Medalists
Great Britain (GBR) Benjamin Jones, Clarence Kingsbury, Leon Meredith, Ernest Payne    Germany (GER) Max Götze, Rudolf Katzer, Hermann Martens, Karl Neumer    Canada (CAN) William Anderson, Walter Andrews, Frederick McCarthy, William Morton

Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Track cycling
660 yards		men
5000 metres		men
20 kilometres		men
100 kilometres		men
Sprint		men
Tandem		men
Team pursuit		men

The men's team pursuit was one of seven track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Teams started at opposite sides of the track. Each team raced three laps of the track, comprising 1980 yards (1810.5 m). The third cyclist in each four-man team to finish set the time for the team.

Results

First round

Heat 1

Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	Benjamin Jones Clarence Kingsbury Leon Meredith Ernest Payne	Great Britain	Walkover
2	Unknown	Belgium	Did not start

Heat 2

Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	William Anderson Walter Andrews Frederick McCarthy William Morton	Canada	Walkover
2	Unknown	United States	Did not start

Heat 3

The Dutch team had a bye in the first round.

Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	Gerard Bosch van Drakestein Antonie Gerrits Dorus Nijland Johannes van Spengen	Netherlands	Walkover

Heat 4

In the only contested heat in the first round, the German team eliminated the French.

Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	Max Götze Rudolf Katzer Hermann Martens Karl Neumer	Germany	2:25.4
2	André Auffray Émile Demangel Émile Marechal Maurice Schilles	France	2:32.0

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

The Canadians received third place overall as the faster of the two semifinal losers, while the British team moved on to the final.

Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	Benjamin Jones Clarence Kingsbury Leon Meredith Ernest Payne	Great Britain	2:19.6
2	William Anderson Walter Andrews Frederick McCarthy William Morton	Canada	2:29.2[1]

Semifinal 2

Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	Max Götze Rudolf Katzer Hermann Martens Karl Neumer	Germany	2:31.8
2	Gerard Bosch van Drakestein Antonie Gerrits Dorus Nijland Johannes van Spengen	Netherlands	2:44.0

Final

Place	Cyclists	Nation	Time
1	Benjamin Jones Clarence Kingsbury Leon Meredith Ernest Payne	Great Britain	2:18.6
2	Max Götze Rudolf Katzer Hermann Martens Karl Neumer	Germany	2:28.6

Notes

1. The Canadian team's semifinal time is listed in the Official Report as "2 min. 292 sec."

Sources

• Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
• De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Cycling 1908". Accessed 7 April 2006. Available electronically at .