Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics – Men's individual pursuit (B&VI 1–3)

The Men's individual pursuit (B&VI 1–3) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics took place on August 7 at the Laoshan Velodrome in Beijing, China.

Preliminaries In the preliminary round, Kieran Modra and Tyson Lawrence (Australia) broke their own world record, and the paralympic record set by Modra and his pilot at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, Robert Crowe.

Records prior to the preliminary round PR 4:21.451 Athens September 19, 2004 WR 4:20.891 Bordeaux August 21, 2007

Q = Qualifier PR = Paralympic Record WR = World Record

Rank Name Time 1 4:18.961 Q WR 2 4:25.335 Q 3 4:25.554 Q 4 4:27.578 Q 5 4:29.195 6 4:32.191 7 4:32.236 8 4:38.548 9 4:40.432 10 4:41.677 11 4:44.890 12 4:47.730 13 4:49.911 14 5:11.936

Finals The final rounds saw the world record broken again by Modra and Lawrence, this time taking 0.795 seconds off the time.

Records prior to the final PR 4:18.961 Beijing September 7, 2008 WR 4:18.961 Beijing September 7, 2008

Gold medal match Name Time Rank 4:18.166 WR caught

Bronze medal match Name Time Rank 4:26.626 4:28.171 4

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