The Women's team pursuit at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on April 5. 14 nations of 3 cyclists each participated in the contest. After the qualifying, the fastest 2 teams raced for gold, and 3rd and 4th teams raced for bronze.

Medalists GoldDanielle KingLaura TrottJoanna RowsellSilverAnnette EdmondsonMelissa HoskinsJosephine TomicBronzeTara WhittenJasmin GlaesserGillian Carleton

Results

Qualifying The Qualifying was held at .Qualifying Results

Rank Name Nation Time Notes 1 Danielle KingLaura TrottJoanna Rowsell 3:16.850 WR, Q 2 Annette EdmondsonMelissa HoskinsJosephine Tomic 3:17.053 Q * 3 Tara WhittenJasmin GlaesserGillian Carleton 3:19.494 Q 4 Lauren EllisJaime NielsenAlison Shanks 3:20.598 Q 5 Sarah HammerDotsie BauschLauren Tamayo 3:21.765 6 Alena DylkoAksana PapkoTatsiana Sharakova 3:22.509 7 Jiang FanJiang WenwenLiang Jing 3:23.083 8 Charlotte BeckerLisa BrennauerMadeleine Sandig 3:24.145 9 Svitlana HalyukYelyzaveta BochkaryovaLesya Kalytovska 3:24.227 10 Evgenia RomanyutaVenera AbsalyamovaViktoriya Kondel 3:24.644 11 Vilija SereikaitėAušrinė TrebaitėVaida Pikauskaitė 3:25.656 12 Kanako KaseMaki TabataMinami Uwano 3:31.165 13 Meng Zhao JuanWong Wan YiuDiao Xiao Juan 3:37.952 Katarzyna PawłowskaMałgorzata WojtyraEugenia Bujak DSQ

The time set by the Australian team in qualifying was itself a new world record, but was immediately overtaken by the Great Britain team.

Finals The finals were held at 19:15.

Small Final Rank Name Nation Time Notes Tara WhittenJasmin GlaesserGillian Carleton 3:19.529 Lauren EllisJaime NielsenAlison Shanks 3:19.847

Final Rank Name Nation Time Notes Danielle KingLaura TrottJoanna Rowsell 3:15.720 WR Annette EdmondsonMelissa HoskinsJosephine Tomic 3:16.943

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