2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit

Rainbow jersey

The Women's team pursuit at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on April 5. 14 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]

Medalists

Gold	Great Britain Danielle King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell
Silver	Australia Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic
Bronze	Canada Tara Whitten Jasmin Glaesser Gillian Carleton

Results

Qualifying

The Qualifying was held at . ^[2]

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Danielle King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell	Great Britain	3:16.850	WR, Q
2	Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic	Australia	3:17.053	Q *
3	Tara Whitten Jasmin Glaesser Gillian Carleton	Canada	3:19.494	Q
4	Lauren Ellis Jaime Nielsen Alison Shanks	New Zealand	3:20.598	Q
5	Sarah Hammer Dotsie Bausch Lauren Tamayo	United States	3:21.765
6	Alena Dylko Aksana Papko Tatsiana Sharakova	Belarus	3:22.509
7	Jiang Fan Jiang Wenwen Liang Jing	China	3:23.083
8	Charlotte Becker Lisa Brennauer Madeleine Sandig	Germany	3:24.145
9	Svitlana Halyuk Yelyzaveta Bochkaryova Lesya Kalytovska	Ukraine	3:24.227
10	Evgenia Romanyuta Venera Absalyamova Viktoriya Kondel	Russia	3:24.644
11	Vilija Sereikaitė Aušrinė Trebaitė Vaida Pikauskaitė	Lithuania	3:25.656
12	Kanako Kase Maki Tabata Minami Uwano	Japan	3:31.165
13	Meng Zhao Juan Wong Wan Yiu Diao Xiao Juan	Hong Kong	3:37.952
	Katarzyna Pawłowska Małgorzata Wojtyra Eugenia Bujak	Poland		DSQ

• The time set by the Australian team in qualifying was itself a new world record, but was immediately overtaken by the Great Britain team.

Finals

The finals were held at 19:15. ^[3]

Small Final

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
	Tara Whitten Jasmin Glaesser Gillian Carleton	Canada	3:19.529
4	Lauren Ellis Jaime Nielsen Alison Shanks	New Zealand	3:19.847

Final

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
	Danielle King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell	Great Britain	3:15.720	WR
	Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic	Australia	3:16.943

References

1. Start list ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
2. Qualifying Results
3. Final Results ^{[ permanent dead link ]}