Cycling at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit

Men's team pursuit at the Games of the VII Olympiad
The winning team from Italy
Venue	Vélodrome d'Anvers Zuremborg
Dates	9–10 August
Competitors	32 from 8 nations
Medalists
Arnaldo Carli, Ruggero Ferrario, Franco Giorgetti, Primo Magnani Italy   Cyril Alden, Horace Johnson, William Stewart, Albert White Great Britain   Sammy Goosen, Henry Kaltenbrunn, William Smith, James Walker South Africa

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 team pursuit event was part of the track cycling programme at the 1920 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Results

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1

Place	Cyclists	Time	Qual.
1	Italy (ITA), Arnaldo Carli, Ruggero Ferrario, Franco Giorgetti, Primo Magnani	6:20.0	Q
2	France (FRA), Enguerrand, Henri Habent, Courder, Lucien Faucheux

Quarterfinal 2

Place	Cyclists	Time	Qual.
1	Belgium (BEL), Jean Janssens, Albert De Bunné, Charles Van Doorselaer, Gustave De Schryver	6:18.4	Q
2	United States (USA), Christopher Dotterweich, Anthony Young, Willie Beck, Fred Taylor

Quarterfinal 3

Place	Cyclists	Time	Qual.
1	Great Britain (GBR), Cyril Alden, Horace Johnson, William Stewart, Albert White	5:23.8	Q
2	Netherlands (NED), Maurice Peeters, Frans de Vreng, Pieter Beets, Piet Ikelaar

Quarterfinal 4

Place	Cyclists	Time	Qual.
1	South Africa (RSA), Sammy Goosen, Henry Kaltenbrunn, William Smith, James Walker	5:21.0	Q
2	Canada (CAN), Herbert McDonald, Harold Bounsall, Norman Webster, William Taylor

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Place	Cyclists	Time	Qual.
1	Great Britain (GBR), Cyril Alden, Horace Johnson, William Stewart, Albert White	5:14.0	Q
2	Belgium (BEL), Jean Janssens, Albert De Bunné, Charles Van Doorselaer, Gustave De Schryver	5:20.2

Semifinal 2

Place	Cyclists	Time	Qual.
1	Italy (ITA), Arnaldo Carli, Ruggero Ferrario, Franco Giorgetti, Primo Magnani	5:10.8	Q
2	South Africa (RSA), Sammy Goosen, Henry Kaltenbrunn, William Smith, James Walker	5:17.8

Final

Italy took first place after a protest of the results of the final. No third place match was held between South Africa and Belgium; instead, their times in the semifinals were used to determine final placings.

Place	Cyclists	Time
1	Italy (ITA), Arnaldo Carli, Ruggero Ferrario, Franco Giorgetti, Primo Magnani	5:14.2
2	Great Britain (GBR), Cyril Alden, Horace Johnson, William Stewart, Albert White	5:13.8

References

1. "Cycling at the 1920 Antwerpen Summer Games:Men's Team Pursuit, 4,000 metres". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 25 December 2013.

External links

• Belgium Olympic Committee (1957). Olympic Games Antwerp 1920: Official Report (in French).
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 26 August 2007.