The men's team pursuit event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place from 5 to 7 August 2024 at the Vélodrome National de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
Background
This will be the 26th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics since its introduction in 1908 except for 1912, when no track cycling was held.
Qualification
Competition format A team pursuit race involves two teams of four cyclists. Each team starts at opposite sides of the track. There are two ways to win: finish 16 laps (4 km) before the other team does or catch the other team. The time for each team is determined by the third cyclist to cross the finish line; the fourth cyclist does not need to finish.
The tournament consists of three rounds:
Qualifying round: Each team does a time trial for seeding. Only the top 4 teams are able to compete for the gold medal; the 5th place and lower teams can do no better than bronze. First round: Four heats of 2 teams each. The top 4 teams are seeded against each other (1 vs. 4, 2 vs. 3) while the bottom 4 teams are seeded against each other (5 vs. 8, 6 vs. 7). The winners of the top bracket advance to the gold medal final. The other 6 teams are ranked by time and advance to finals based on those rankings. Finals: Four finals, each with 2 teams. There is a gold medal final (gold and silver medals), a bronze medal final (bronze medal and 4th place), and 5th/6th and 7th/8th classification finals.
Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+2)"Olympic Schedule - Cycling Track", Olympics.com. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
Date Time Round 5 August 17:27 Qualifying 6 August 19:14 First round 7 August 18:04 Finals
Results Qualifying Rank Nation Time Notes 1 Oliver BleddynSam WelsfordConor LeahyKelland O'Brien 3:42.958 Q 2 Ethan HayterOliver WoodDaniel BighamEthan Vernon 3:43.241 Q 3 Tobias HansenNiklas LarsenCarl-Frederik BévortRasmus Pedersen 3:43.690 Q 4 Simone ConsonniFilippo GannaFrancesco LamonJonathan Milan 3:44.351 Q 5 Thomas BoudatBenjamin ThomasThomas DenisValentin Tabellion 3:45.514 q 6 Aaron GateKeegan HornblowTom SextonCampbell Stewart 3:45.616 q 7 Lindsay De VylderFabio Van den BosscheTuur DensNoah Vandenbranden 3:47.232 q 8 Dylan BibicMathias GuillemetteMichael FoleyCarson Mattern 3:48.964 q 9 Roger KlugeTim Torn TeutenbergTobias Buck-GramckoTheo Reinhardt 3:50.083 10 Shunsuke ImamuraKazushige KubokiEiya HashimotoShinji Nakano 3:53.489
First round Heat Rank Nation Time Notes 1 1 Aaron GateKeegan HornblowTom SextonCampbell Stewart 3:43.776 1 2 Lindsay De VylderFabio Van den BosscheTuur DensNoah Vandenbranden 3:45.685 2 1 Thomas BoudatBenjamin ThomasThomas DenisValentin Tabellion 3:45.531 2 2 Dylan BibicMathias GuillemetteMichael FoleyCarson Mattern 3:49.245 3 1 Ethan HayterOliver WoodCharlie TanfieldEthan Vernon 3:42.151 3 2 Tobias HansenNiklas LarsenCarl-Frederik BévortRasmus Pedersen 3:42.803 4 1Oliver BleddynSam WelsfordConor LeahyKelland O'Brien 3:40.730 , WR 4 2Simone ConsonniFilippo GannaFrancesco LamonJonathan Milan 3:43.205
Finals Rank Nation Time Notes Gold medal final Oliver BleddynSam WelsfordConor LeahyKelland O'Brien 3:42.067 Ethan HayterDaniel BighamCharlie TanfieldEthan Vernon 3:44.394 Bronze medal final Simone ConsonniFilippo GannaFrancesco LamonJonathan Milan 3:44.197 4 Tobias HansenNiklas LarsenCarl-Frederik BévortRasmus Pedersen 3:46.138 Fifth place final 5 Aaron GateKeegan HornblowTom SextonCampbell Stewart 3:44.741 6 Thomas BoudatBenjamin ThomasThomas DenisValentin Tabellion 3:47.697 Seventh place final 7 Dylan BibicMathias GuillemetteMichael FoleyCarson Mattern 3:54.517 Lindsay De VylderFabio Van den BosscheTuur DensNoah Vandenbranden
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