The men's team pursuit cycling event at the 1948 Summer Olympics took place on 7 to 9 August and was one of six events at the 1948 Olympics.
Results First round The first round took place on 7 August. The winning team from each heat advanced to the quarterfinals. Since the number of teams made it impossible for the Finnish team to compete against another team, it was determined that their time must beat that of the fastest losing team in the first round to advance to the quarterfinals. Since Australia's 5:06.05 time beat Finland's 5:17.4 time, Australia advanced to the quarterfinals.
Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Alan GeldardTommy GodwinDavid RickettsWilfred Waters 5:12.7 2 Lorne AtkinsonWilliam HamiltonLance PughLaurent Tessier 5:38.2
Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Charles CosteSerge BlussonFernand DecanaliPierre Adam 5:03.6 2 Walter FreitagHans GoldschmidJosef PohnetalHeinrich Schiebel 5:18.8
Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Walter BucherGaston GerosaEugen KamberHans Pfenninger 5:13.8 2 Roberto GuerreroJulio AlbaAmbrosio AimarEnrique Molina 5:17.1
Heat 4 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Arnaldo BenfenatiGuido BernardiAnselmo CitterioRino Pucci 5:10.2 2 Adi HavewalaJehangoo AminRohinton NoblePiloo Sarkari 6:00.5
Heat 5 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Jos De BeukelaereMaurice BlommeGeorges Van BrabantRaphael Glorieux 5:05.5 2 Al StillerThomas MontemageTed Smith 5:22.5
Heat 6 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Max JørgensenBørge GisselBørge MortensenBenny Schnoor 5:04.1 2 Sid PattersonJim NestorJack HoobinRussell Mockridge 5:06.05
Quarterfinals Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Charles CosteSerge BlussonFernand DecanaliPierre Adam 5:00.5 2 Walter BucherGaston GerosaEugen KamberHans Pfenninger 5:09.2
Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Alan GeldardTommy GodwinDavid RickettsWilfred Waters 5:02.9 2 Max JørgensenBørge GisselBørge MortensenBenny Schnoor 5:05.6
Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Charles CosteSerge BlussonFernand DecanaliPierre Adam 4:59.0 2 Walter BucherGaston GerosaEugen KamberHans Pfenninger 5:05.7
Heat 4 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Atilio FrançoisJuan de ArmasLuis Ángel de los SantosWaldemar Bernatzky 5:03.5 2 Sid PattersonJim NestorJack HoobinRussell Mockridge 5:07.7
Semifinals Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Charles CosteSerge BlussonFernand DecanaliPierre Adam 4:54.4 2 Alan GeldardTommy GodwinDavid RickettsWilfred Waters 4:59.1
Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Arnaldo BenfenatiGuido BernardiAnselmo CitterioRino Pucci 5:00.5 2 Atilio FrançoisJuan de ArmasLuis Ángel de los SantosWaldemar Bernatzky 5:06.3
Final Gold medal race Rank Name Nationality Time Charles CosteSerge BlussonFernand DecanaliPierre Adam 4:57.8 Arnaldo BenfenatiGuido BernardiAnselmo CitterioRino Pucci 5:36.7
Bronze medal race Rank Name Nationality Time Alan GeldardTommy GodwinDavid RickettsWilfred Waters 4:55.8 4 Atilio FrançoisJuan de ArmasLuis Ángel de los SantosWaldemar Bernatzky 5:04.4
Final standings
Rank Name Nationality Charles CosteSerge BlussonFernand DecanaliPierre Adam Arnaldo BenfenatiGuido BernardiAnselmo CitterioRino Pucci Alan GeldardTommy GodwinDavid RickettsWilfred Waters 4 Atilio FrançoisJuan de ArmasLuis Ángel de los SantosWaldemar Bernatzky 5 Sid PattersonJim NestorJack HoobinRussell Mockridge Jos De BeukelaereMaurice BlommeGeorges Van BrabantRaphael Glorieux Max JørgensenBørge GisselBørge MortensenBenny Schnoor Walter BucherGaston GerosaEugen KamberHans Pfenninger 9 Onni KasslinPaavo KuusinenErkki KoskinenTorvald Högström Lorne AtkinsonWilliam HamiltonLance PughLaurent Tessier Walter FreitagHans GoldschmidJosef PohnetalHeinrich Schiebel Roberto GuerreroJulio AlbaAmbrosio AimarEnrique Molina Adi HavewalaJehangoo AminRohinton NoblePiloo Sarkari Gerrit VoortingJoop HarmansTheo BlankenaauwHenk Faanhof Al StillerThomas MontemageTed Smith
References
External links Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.