Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's team pursuit

The women's cycling team pursuit at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held at the London Velopark on 3 and 4 August.

The Great Britain team consisting of Dani King, Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell won the gold medal in world record-breaking time. Including pre-Olympic races and the Olympic final itself, in the six times they had ridden together they had broken the world record in every race. Sarah Hammer, Dotsie Bausch and Jennie Reed of the United States took the silver medal and Canada's Tara Whitten, Gillian Carleton and Jasmin Glaesser won bronze.

Competition format

The women's team pursuit race consists of a 3 km race between two teams of three 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.

The "first round" consisted of the four fastest qualifiers competing in head-to-head races (1st vs. 4th, 2nd vs. 3rd). The winners of these heats advanced to the gold medal final. The other four qualifiers also competed in the first round (5th vs. 8th, 6th vs. 7th). 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. Qualification races were also held to determine 5th/6th place (between the next two fastest first-round teams who had not reached either the gold or bronze finals) and 7th/8th place (among the remaining two first-round teams).

Schedule All times are British Summer Time Date Time RoundFriday 3 August 2012 17:00 Qualification Saturday 4 August 2012 16:10 First round and finals

Results

Qualification Rank Country Cyclists Result Notes 1 Dani KingLaura TrottJoanna Rowsell 3:15.669 Q, WR, OR 2 Sarah HammerDotsie BauschJennie Reed 3:19.406 Q 3 Annette EdmondsonMelissa HoskinsJosephine Tomic 3:19.719 Q 4 Tara WhittenGillian CarletonJasmin Glaesser 3:19.816 Q 5 Lauren EllisJaime NielsenAlison Shanks 3:20.421 Q 6 Kirsten WildAmy PietersEllen van Dijk 3:21.602 Q 7 Judith ArndtCharlotte BeckerLisa Brennauer 3:22.058 Q 8 Tatsiana SharakovaAlena DylkoAksana Papko 3:22.850 Q 9 Yelyzaveta BochkaryovaSvitlana HalyukLesya Kalytovska 3:25.160 10 Jiang FanJiang WenwenLiang Jing 3:26.049

First round Rank Heat Country Cyclists Result Notes 1 4 Dani KingLaura TrottJoanna Rowsell 3:14.682 WR, OR 2 3 Sarah HammerDotsie BauschJennie Reed 3:16.853NR 3 3 Annette EdmondsonMelissa HoskinsJosephine Tomic 3:16.935 OC 4 4 Tara WhittenGillian CarletonJasmin Glaesser 3:17.454 NR 5 2 Lauren EllisJaime NielsenAlison Shanks 3:18.514 NR 6 1 Kirsten WildVera KoedooderEllen van Dijk 3:20.013 NR 7 1 Judith ArndtCharlotte BeckerLisa Brennauer 3:21.086 8 2 Tatsiana SharakovaAlena DylkoAksana Papko 3:21.942

Finals

Final 7th–8th place Rank Country Cyclists Result Notes 7 Tatsiana SharakovaAlena DylkoAksana Papko 3:20.245 NR 8 Judith ArndtCharlotte BeckerLisa Brennauer 3:20.824 NR

Final 5th–6th place

Rank Country Cyclists Result Notes 5 Lauren EllisJaime NielsenAlison Shanks 3:19.351 6 Vera KoedooderAmy PietersEllen van Dijk 3:23.256

Final bronze medal Rank Country Cyclists Result Notes Tara WhittenGillian CarletonJasmin Glaesser 3:17.915 4 Annette EdmondsonMelissa HoskinsJosephine Tomic 3:18.096

Final gold medal

Rank Country Cyclists Result Notes Dani KingLaura TrottJoanna Rowsell 3:14.051 WR, OR Sarah HammerDotsie BauschLauren Tamayo 3:19.727

Final classification In the final classification are also the riders listed who competed during the qualification and the first round. Rank Country Cyclists Dani KingLaura TrottJoanna Rowsell Sarah HammerDotsie BauschLauren TamayoJennie Reed Tara WhittenGillian CarletonJasmin Glaesser 4 Annette EdmondsonMelissa HoskinsJosephine Tomic 5 Lauren EllisJaime NielsenAlison Shanks 6 Ellen van DijkKirsten WildVera KoedooderAmy Pieters 7 Tatsiana SharakovaAlena DylkoAksana Papko 8 Judith ArndtCharlotte BeckerLisa Brennauer 9 Yelyzaveta BochkaryovaSvitlana HalyukLesya Kalytovska 10 Jiang FanJiang WenwenLiang Jing

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