Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit

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Men's team pursuit
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Cycling (track) pictogram.svg
Olympic track cycling
Venues Izu Velodrome
Dates2–4 August 2021
Competitors37 from 8 nations
Teams8
Winning time3:42.032 WR
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Simone Consonni
Filippo Ganna
Francesco Lamon
Jonathan Milan
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Silver medal icon.svg Lasse Norman Hansen
Niklas Larsen
Frederik Rodenberg
Rasmus Pedersen
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
Bronze medal icon.svg Kelland O'Brien
Sam Welsford
Leigh Howard
Luke Plapp
Alexander Porter
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
  2016
2024  

The men's team pursuit event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place from 2 to 4 August 2021 at the Izu Velodrome. [1] 32 cyclists (8 teams of 4) from 8 nations competed. [2]

Contents

Background

This was the 25th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics since its introduction in 1908 except for 1912, when no track cycling was held.

The reigning Olympic champions were Ed Clancy, Steven Burke, Owain Doull, and Bradley Wiggins of Great Britain; Great Britain had won the last three Olympic events (with Clancy on the team for all three, Wiggins for the first and third, and Burke for the last two). The reigning (2020) World Champions were Lasse Norman Hansen, Julius Johansen, Frederik Rodenberg, and Rasmus Pedersen of Denmark.

In a particularly competitive event in 2021, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Italy, and Germany were all tipped to challenge British dominance in the event. [3]

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 1 team of 4 cyclists in the team pursuit. Quota places are allocated to the NOC, which selects the cyclists. Qualification was entirely through the 2018–20 UCI nation rankings. The eight top nations in the rankings qualify for the team pursuit event. These nations also automatically qualified a team in the Madison. [2] Because qualification was complete by the end of the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships on 1 March 2020 (the last event that contributed to the 2018–20 rankings), qualification was unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Competition format

A team pursuit race involves two teams of four cyclists. Each team starts at opposite sides of the track. There are two ways to win: finish 16 laps (4 km) before the other team does or catch the other team. The time for each team is determined by the third cyclist to cross the finish line; the fourth cyclist does not need to finish.

The tournament consists of three rounds: [4] [5]

Schedule

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9) [6]

DateTimeRound
2 August17:02Qualifying
3 August16:22First round
4 August17:45Finals

Results

Qualifying

RankCountryCyclistsResult [7] Notes
1Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Lasse Norman Hansen
Niklas Larsen
Frederik Rodenberg
Rasmus Pedersen
3:45.014 OR
2Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Simone Consonni
Filippo Ganna
Francesco Lamon
Jonathan Milan
3:45.895
3Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand Aaron Gate
Campbell Stewart
Regan Gough
Jordan Kerby
3:46.079
4Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Ethan Hayter
Ed Clancy
Ethan Vernon
Oliver Wood
3:47.507
5Flag of Australia.svg  Australia Kelland O'Brien
Sam Welsford
Leigh Howard
Alexander Porter
3:48.448
6Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Vincent De Haître
Michael Foley
Derek Gee
Jay Lamoureux
3:50.455
7Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Theo Reinhardt
Felix Groß
Leon Rohde
Domenic Weinstein
3:50.830
8Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland Robin Froidevaux
Stefan Bissegger
Mauro Schmid
Cyrille Thièry
3:51.514

First round

RankHeatCountryCyclistsResult [8] Notes
13Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Simone Consonni
Filippo Ganna
Francesco Lamon
Jonathan Milan
3:42.307QG, WR
24Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Lasse Norman Hansen
Niklas Larsen
Frederik Rodenberg
Rasmus Pedersen
QG
33Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand Aaron Gate
Campbell Stewart
Regan Gough
Jordan Kerby
3:42.397QB
42Flag of Australia.svg  Australia Kelland O'Brien
Sam Welsford
Leigh Howard
Luke Plapp
3:44.902QB
51Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Vincent De Haître
Michael Foley
Derek Gee
Jay Lamoureux
3:46.769
61Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Theo Reinhardt
Felix Groß
Leon Rohde
Domenic Weinstein
3:48.861
72Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland Théry Schir
Stefan Bissegger
Valère Thiébaud
Cyrille Thièry
3:49.111
84Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Ethan Hayter
Charlie Tanfield
Ethan Vernon
Oliver Wood
4:28.489

Denmark caught the team from Great Britain, thereby advancing to the Gold Medal final, but did not record a time as their third rider crashed into the caught third British rider, who had lost contact to the front two of his team. [9]

Finals

RankCountryCyclistsResult [10] Notes
Gold medal final
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of Italy.svg  Italy Simone Consonni
Filippo Ganna
Francesco Lamon
Jonathan Milan
3:42.032 WR
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Lasse Norman Hansen
Niklas Larsen
Frederik Rodenberg
Rasmus Pedersen
3:42.198
Bronze medal final
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Australia.svg  Australia Kelland O'Brien
Sam Welsford
Leigh Howard
Luke Plapp
4Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand Aaron Gate
Campbell Stewart
Regan Gough
Jordan Kerby
OVL
Fifth place final
5Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Vincent De Haître
Michael Foley
Derek Gee
Jay Lamoureux
3:46.324
6Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Roger Kluge
Felix Groß
Leon Rohde
Domenic Weinstein
3:50.023
Seventh place final
7Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Ethan Hayter
Charlie Tanfield
Ethan Vernon
Oliver Wood
3:45.636
8Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland Robin Froidevaux
Stefan Bissegger
Valère Thiébaud
Cyrille Thièry
3:50.041

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