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

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Men's team pursuit
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue Olympic Velodrome, Athens
Competitors44 from 10 nations
Winning time3:58.233
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of Australia.svg  Australia
Graeme Brown, Peter Dawson, Brett Lancaster, Brad McGee, Luke Roberts, Stephen Wooldridge
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain
Steve Cummings, Paul Manning, Chris Newton, Bryan Steel
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Spain.svg  Spain
Carlos Castaño, Sergi Escobar, Asier Maeztu, Carlos Torrent
  2000
2008  

The men's team pursuit event in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics consisted of matches between two teams of four cyclists. The teams started at opposite ends of the track. They 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 (based on the third rider of the team to cross the line) were used to determine the victor. The Australia-Great Britain rivalry continued in an event which saw a new world record. [1]

Medalists

Gold medal with cup.svg Gold Silver medal with cup.svg Silver Bronze medal with cup.svg Bronze
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS)
Graeme Brown
Peter Dawson
Brett Lancaster
Brad McGee
Luke Roberts
Stephen Wooldridge [2]
Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain  (GBR)
Steve Cummings
Rob Hayles
Paul Manning
Bradley Wiggins
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain  (ESP)
Carlos Castaño
Sergi Escobar
Asier Maeztu
Carlos Torrent

Results

Qualifying round

For the qualifying round, teams did not face each other. Instead, they raced the 4000 metres by themselves. The top eight times qualified for the first competition round, with the other two teams receiving a rank based on their time in this round.

RankTeamNamesTime
1Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS) Graeme Brown
Peter Dawson
Brett Lancaster
Stephen Wooldridge
4:00.613 Q
2Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain  (GBR) Steve Cummings
Paul Manning
Chris Newton
Bryan Steel
4:03.985 Q
3Flag of Spain.svg  Spain  (ESP) Carlos Castaño
Sergi Escobar
Asier Maeztu
Carlos Torrent
4:04.421 Q
4Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER) Robert Bartko
Guido Fulst
Christian Lademann
Leif Lampater
4:05.823 Q
5Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands  (NED) Levi Heimans
Jens Mouris
Peter Schep
Jeroen Straathof
4:06.286 Q
6Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine  (UKR) Volodymyr Dyudya
Roman Kononenko
Sergiy Matveyev
Vitaliy Popkov
4:07.175 Q
7Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA) Mathieu Ladagnous
Anthony Langella
Jérôme Neuville
Fabien Sanchez
4:07.336 Q
8Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania  (LTU) Linas Balčiūnas
Aivaras Baranauskas
Tomas Vaitkus
Raimondas Vilčinskas
4:08.812 Q
9Flag of Russia.svg  Russia  (RUS) Vladislav Borisov
Alexander Khatuntsev
Alexei Markov
Andrey Minashkin
4:09.394
10Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand  (NZL) Hayden Godfrey
Peter Latham
Matthew Randall
Marc Ryan
4:10.820

Match round

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 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
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)4:03.785 Q(4th)
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands  (NED)4:04.605(5th)
Heat 2
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain  (ESP)4:02.374 Q(3rd)
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine  (UKR)4:05.266(6th)
Heat 3
Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain  (GBR)3:59.866 Q(2nd)
Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)lapped(7th)
Heat 4

Australia set a world record time in this match.

Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS)3:56.610 Q(1st)
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania  (LTU)lapped(8th)

Medal round

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

Bronze medal match
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain  (ESP)4:05.523
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)4:07.193
Gold medal match
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS)3:58.233
Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain  (GBR)4:01.760

Final classification

The final results are: [1]

  1. Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS)
  2. Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain  (GBR)
  3. Flag of Spain.svg  Spain  (ESP)
  4. Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)
  5. Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands  (NED)
  6. Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine  (UKR)
  7. Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)
  8. Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania  (LTU)
  9. Flag of Russia.svg  Russia  (RUS)
  10. Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand  (NZL)

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