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.
Schedule All times are China standard time (UTC+8) Date Time RoundSunday, 17 August 2008 10:00 Qualification Sunday, 17 August 2008 18:25 Match roundMonday, 18 August 2008 18:15 Final
Results
Qualification
Rank Country Cyclists Result Notes 1 Ed ClancyPaul ManningGeraint ThomasBradley Wiggins 3:57.101 Q 2 Sam BewleyWestley GoughMarc RyanJesse Sergent 3:59.277 Q 3 Jack BobridgeMark JamiesonBradley McGeeLuke Roberts 4:02.041 Q 4 Michael Færk ChristensenCasper JørgensenJens-Erik MadsenAlex Rasmussen 4:02.191 Q 5 Damien GaudinMathieu LadagnousChristophe RiblonNicolas Rousseau 4:03.679 Q 6 Levi HeimansRobert SlippensWim StroetingaJens Mouris 4:04.846 Q 7 Sergi EscobarAsier MaeztuDavid MuntanerAntonio Miguel Parra 4:06.509 Q 8 Alexei MarkovAlexander PetrovskiyAlexander SerovNikolay Trusov 4:06.518 Q 9 Volodymyr DyudyaLyubomyr PolataykoMaxim PolischukVitaliy Shchedov 4:07.883 10 Juan Esteban ArangoArles CastroJuan Pablo ForeroJairo 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).
Rank Heat Country Cyclists Result Notes 1 4 Ed ClancyPaul ManningGeraint ThomasBradley Wiggins 3:55.202 Q, 2 1 Casper JørgensenJens-Erik MadsenMichael MørkøvAlex Rasmussen 3:56.831 Q 3 3 Sam BewleyMarc RyanHayden RoulstonJesse Sergent 3:57.536 q 4 2 Jack BobridgeGraeme BrownMark JamiesonBradley McGee 3:58.633 q 5 1 Damien GaudinMathieu LadagnousChristophe RiblonNicolas Rousseau 6 2 Levi HeimansRobert SlippensWim StroetingaJens Mouris 7 3 Sergi EscobarAsier MaeztuDavid MuntanerAntonio Miguel Parra 8 4 Evgeny KovalevAlexei MarkovAlexander PetrovskiyAlexander Serov
Medal round Bronze medal match Rank Country Cyclists Result Notes Sam BewleyMarc RyanHayden RoulstonJesse Sergent 3:57.776 4 Jack BobridgeGraeme BrownMark JamiesonBradley McGee 3:59.006
Gold medal match Rank Country Cyclists Result Notes Ed ClancyPaul ManningGeraint ThomasBradley Wiggins 3:53.314 Casper JørgensenJens-Erik MadsenMichael MørkøvAlex Rasmussen 4:00.040
References
External links NBC Olympics: Cycling