2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team sprint

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The Men's team sprint at the 2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on March 23. 18 nations of 3 cyclists each participated in the contest. After the qualifying, the fastest 2 teams raced for gold, and 3rd and 4th teams raced for bronze. [1]

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In January 2012, the French team were stripped of their world title, following the nullification of Grégory Baugé's 2011 results after a 12-month backdated ban for drug test infringements. [2] [3]

Results

Qualifying

Qualifying was held at 17:15. [4]

RankNameNationTimeNotes
1 Michaël D'Almeida
Grégory Baugé
Kévin Sireau
Flag of France.svg France43.951Q
2 René Enders
Maximilian Levy
Stefan Nimke
Flag of Germany.svg Germany44.101Q
3 Matthew Crampton
Chris Hoy
Jason Kenny
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom44.128q
4 Jason Niblett
Scott Sunderland
Dan Ellis
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia44.501q
5 Sergey Kucherov
Denis Dmitriev
Pavel Yakushevskiy
Flag of Russia.svg Russia44.805
6 Sam Webster
Edward Dawkins
Ethan Mitchell
Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand45.032
7 Hugo Haak
Roy van den Berg
Teun Mulder
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands45.047
8 Zhang Miao
Zhang Lei
Cheng Changsong
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China45.112
9 Kamil Kuczyński
Damian Zieliński
Maciej Bielecki
Flag of Poland.svg Poland45.217
10 Kazuki Amagai
Yudai Nitta
Kazunari Watanabe
Flag of Japan.svg Japan45.462
11 Denis Špička
Tomáš Bábek
Adam Ptáčník
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 45.913
12 Dean Tracy
Michael Blatchford
Giddeon Massie
Flag of the United States.svg United States46.190
13 Juan Peralta Gascon
Ruben Donet Gregori
Itmar Esteban Herraiz
Flag of Spain.svg Spain46.294
14 Ángel Pulgar
César Marcano
Hersony Canelón
Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 46.309
15 Josiah Ng
Muhammad Md
Mohd Rizal Tisin
Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 46.470
16 Christian Tamayo
Rubén Murillo
Fabián Puerta
Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 46.589
17 Konstantinos Christodoulou
Zafeirios Volikakis
Christos Volikakis
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 46.724
18 Scott Mulder
Hugo Barrette
Thomas Hums
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada46.876

Finals

The finals were held at 21:05. [5]

RankNameNationTime
Gold Medal Race
DSQ Michaël D'Almeida
Grégory Baugé
Kévin Sireau
Flag of France.svg France43.867
Gold medal icon.svg René Enders
Maximilian Levy
Stefan Nimke
Flag of Germany.svg Germany44.483
Bronze Medal Race
Silver medal icon.svg Matthew Crampton
Chris Hoy
Jason Kenny
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom44.235
Bronze medal icon.svg Dan Ellis
Matthew Glaetzer
Jason Niblett
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia45.241

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