Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's individual pursuit

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Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road race		men		women
Time trial		men		women
Track cycling
Individual pursuit		men		women
Team pursuit		men
Sprint		men		women
Team sprint		men
Time trial		men		women
Points race		men		women
Keirin		men
Madison		men
Mountain biking
Cross-country		men		women

The men's individual pursuit event in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics consisted of matches between two cyclists. The riders would start at opposite ends of the track. Each had 16 laps (4 kilometres) in which to catch the other cyclist. If neither was caught before one had gone 16 laps, the times for the distance were used to determine the victor. In the thirteen matches of the 2004 event, no cyclist was lapped.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bradley Wiggins (GBR)	Brad McGee (AUS)	Sergi Escobar (ESP)

Records

World Record	Christopher Boardman (GBR)	Manchester, United Kingdom	4:11.114	August 29, 1996
Olympic Record	Robert Bartko (GER)	Sydney, Australia	4:18.515	September 17, 2000

Results

Qualifying round

August 20, 16:30

The sixteen riders raced against each other in matches of two. Qualification for the next round was not based on who won those matches, however. The cyclists with the eight fastest times advanced, regardless of whether they won or lost their match.

Heat	Name	Time	Rank
1	Yuriy Yuda (KAZ)	4:29.676	14
	Hossein Askari (IRI)	4:39.302	15
2	Linas Balciunas (LTU)	4:22.392	9
	Vasil Kiryienka (BLR)	4:29.005	13
3	Carlos Castaño (ESP)	4:27.871	12
	Levi Heimans (NED)	DNS	—
4	Volodymyr Dyuda (UKR)	4:18.169 Q	5
	Christian Lademann (GER)	4:26.760	11
5	Fabien Sanchez (FRA)	4:20.606 Q	8
	Alexei Markov (RUS)	4:25.520	10
6	Bradley Wiggins (GBR)	4:15.165 Q	1
	Luke Roberts (AUS)	4:19.353 Q	7
7	Rob Hayles (GBR)	4:17.930 Q	4
	Robert Bartko (GER)	4:18.991 Q	6
8	Sergi Escobar (ESP)	4:16.862 Q	2
	Brad McGee (AUS)	4:17.510 Q	3

Match round

In the first round of actual match competition, cyclists were seeded into matches based on their times from the qualifying round. The fastest cyclist faced the eighth-fastest, the second-fastest faced the third, and so forth. Winners advanced to the finals while losers in each match received a final ranking based on their time in the round.

Heat 1

Rob Hayles (GBR)	4:19.559 Q	(3rd)
Volodymyr Dyuda (UKR)	4:22.720	(7th)

Heat 2

Brad McGee (AUS)	4:17.978 Q	(2nd)
Robert Bartko (GER)	4:26.184	(8th)

Heat 3

Sergi Escobar (ESP)	4:19.581 Q	(4th)
Luke Roberts (AUS)	4:20.336	(5th)

Heat 4

Bradley Wiggins (GBR)	4:17.215 Q	(1st)
Fabien Sanchez (FRA)	4:21.235	(6th)

Medal round

Cyclists were again re-seeded, this time based on their times in the match round. The third- and fourth-fastest riders faced off in the bronze medal match, while the fastest two riders competed for the gold and silver medals.

Bronze medal match

Sergi Escobar (ESP)	4:17.947
Rob Hayles (GBR)	4:22.291

Gold medal match

In a reversal of the 2002 Commonwealth Games final, where McGee had caught Wiggins before the end, the Brit took the title to make up for the disappointment of his team-mate losing the bronze medal match.

Bradley Wiggins (GBR)	4:16.304
Brad McGee (AUS)	4:20.436

Final classification

The final results were^[1]

1.  Bradley Wiggins (GBR)
2.  Brad McGee (AUS)
3.  Sergi Escobar (ESP)
4.  Rob Hayles (GBR)
5.  Luke Roberts (AUS)
6.  Fabien Sanchez (FRA)
7.  Volodymyr Dyuda (UKR)
8.  Robert Bartko (GER)
9.  Linas Balciunas (LTU)
10.  Alexei Markov (RUS)
11.  Christian Lademann (GER)
12.  Carlos Castaño (ESP)
13.  Vasil Kiryienka (BLR)
14.  Yuriy Yuda (KAZ)
15.  Hossein Askari (IRI)

Did not start:  Levi Heimans (NED)

References

1. Sports-reference

External links

• Official Olympic Report