Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit

Men's team pursuit
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad

The medal ceremony
VenueLaoshan Velodrome
DatesAugust 17 (opening rounds)
August 18 (final)
Competitors44 from 10 nations
Winning time3:53.314 WR
Medalists
 
 
 
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The men's team pursuit at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place between August 17 and 18, at the Laoshan Velodrome.

Qualification

Great Britain automatically qualified a team because of their victory at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. They also won the late 2007 World Cup event in Sydney, affording another place based on UCI rankings. This extra place was given to Colombia. No B World Championship was held in this event.

Competition format

The men's team pursuit race consists of a 4 km race between two teams of four cyclists, starting on opposite sides of the track. If one team catches the other, the race is over.

The tournament consisted of an initial qualifying round. The top four teams in the qualifying round remained in contention for the gold medal, the 5th to 8th place teams could compete for a possible bronze, and the remaining teams were eliminated.

In the first round of match competition, teams were seeded into matches based on their times from the qualifying round. The fastest team faced the eighth-fastest, the second-fastest faced the seventh, and so forth. Winners advanced to the finals while losers in each match received a final ranking based on their time in the round. Advancement to the bronze medal final was based solely on time, with the fastest two teams among the six qualifiers who had not advanced to the gold medal final reaching the bronze medal final.[1]

Schedule

All times are China standard time (UTC+8)

Date Time Round
Sunday, 17 August 2008 10:00 Qualification
Sunday, 17 August 2008 18:25 Match round
Monday, 18 August 2008 18:15 Final

Results

Qualification

[2]

Rank Country Cyclists Result Notes
1 Great Britain Ed Clancy
Paul Manning
Geraint Thomas
Bradley Wiggins
3:57.101 Q
2 New Zealand Sam Bewley
Westley Gough
Marc Ryan
Jesse Sergent
3:59.277 Q
3 Australia Jack Bobridge
Mark Jamieson
Bradley McGee
Luke Roberts
4:02.041 Q
4 Denmark Michael Færk Christensen
Casper Jørgensen
Jens-Erik Madsen
Alex Nicki Rasmussen
4:02.191 Q
5 France Damien Gaudin
Matthieu Ladagnous
Christophe Riblon
Nicolas Rousseau
4:03.679 Q
6 Netherlands Levi Heimans
Robert Slippens
Wim Stroetinga
Jens Mouris
4:04.846 Q
7 Spain Sergi Escobar
Asier Maeztu
David Muntaner
Antonio Miguel Parra
4:06.509 Q
8 Russia Alexei Markov
Alexander Petrovskiy
Alexander Serov
Nikolay Trusov
4:06.518 Q
9 Ukraine Volodymyr Dyudya
Lyubomyr Polatayko
Maksym Polishchuk
Vitaliy Shchedov
4:07.883
10 Colombia Juan Estaban Arango
Arles Castro
Juan Pablo Forero
Jairo Pérez
4:11.397

Match round

Semifinals

Qualification rule: Two fastest teams advance to the gold medal match (Q), while the next two to the bronze medal match (q).[3]

Rank Heat Country Cyclists Result Notes
1 4 Great Britain Ed Clancy
Paul Manning
Geraint Thomas
Bradley Wiggins
3:55.202 Q, WR
2 1 Denmark Casper Jørgensen
Jens-Erik Madsen
Michael Mørkøv
Alex Nicki Rasmussen
3:56.831 Q
3 3 New Zealand Sam Bewley
Marc Ryan
Hayden Roulston
Jesse Sergent
3:57.536 q
4 2 Australia Jack Bobridge
Graeme Brown
Mark Jamieson
Bradley McGee
3:58.633 q
5 1 France Damien Gaudin
Matthieu Ladagnous
Christophe Riblon
Nicolas Rousseau
DSQ
6 2 Netherlands Levi Heimans
Robert Slippens
Wim Stroetinga
Jens Mouris
LAP
7 3 Spain Sergi Escobar
Asier Maeztu
David Muntaner
Antonio Miguel Parra
LAP
8 4 Russia Evgeny Kovalev
Alexei Markov
Alexander Petrovskiy
Alexander Serov
LAP

Medal round

Bronze medal match[4]
Rank Country Cyclists Result Notes
3rd New Zealand Sam Bewley
Marc Ryan
Hayden Roulston
Jesse Sergent
3:57.776
4 Australia Jack Bobridge
Graeme Brown
Mark Jamieson
Bradley McGee
3:59.006
Gold medal match[4]
Rank Country Cyclists Result Notes
1st Great Britain Ed Clancy
Paul Manning
Geraint Thomas
Bradley Wiggins
3:53.314 WR
2nd Denmark Casper Jørgensen
Jens-Erik Madsen
Michael Mørkøv
Alex Nicki Rasmussen
4:00.040

References

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