These are the official results of the Men's Individual Pursuit at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The races were held on Saturday, 16 September, and Sunday, 17 September 2000 at the Dunc Gray Velodromewith a race distance of 4 km.
Medalists Gold Silver Bronze Robert Bartko, Jens Lehmann, Brad McGee,
Records World and Olympic records prior to the Games. World Record 4:11.114 Chris Boardman GBR Manchester, Great Britain 29 August 1996 Olympic Record 4:19.699 Andrea Collinelli ITA Atlanta, USA 24 July 1996
Qualifying round 16 September
The seventeen riders raced against each other in matches of two. Qualification for the next round was not based on who won those matches, however. The cyclists with the four fastest times advanced, regardless of whether they won or lost their match.
Rank Name Nation Time 1 Robert Bartko 4:18.972 2 Rob Hayles 4:20.996 3Jens Lehmann 4:21.350 4 Brad McGee 4:21.903 5 Philippe Gaumont 4:22.142 6 Oleksandr Symonenko 4:23.983 7 Sergiy Matveyev 4:25.380 8 Walter Fernando Perez 4:30.757 9 Luke Roberts 4:31.162 10 Mariano Friedick 4:31.241 11 Vladimir Karpets 4:31.342 12 Christian Vande Velde 4:31.528 13 Alexey Markov 4:31.589 14 Gary Anderson 4:32.304 15 Franco Marvulli 4:34.000 16 Antonio Tauler 4:34.415 17 Vadim Kravchenko 4:40.410
Semi-finals Held 16 September
In the first round of actual match competition, cyclists were seeded into matches based on their times from the qualifying round. The fastest cyclist faced the fourth-fastest and the second-fastest faced the third. Winners advanced to the finals while losers met in the bronze-medal match.
Heat 1 Jens Lehmann 4:23.032 (3rd)Rob Hayles 4:30.080 (2nd)
Heat 2 Robert Bartko 4:21.067 (1st)Brad McGee 4:22.644 (4th)
Finals Held 17 September
Gold Medal Robert Bartko 4:18.515 Jens Lehmann 4:23.824
Bronze Medal Brad McGee 4:19.250 Rob Hayles 4:19.613
References
External links Official Olympic Report