These are the official results of the Men's Individual Pursuit at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The races were held on Monday, July 27, and Wednesday, July 29, 1992, at the Velòdrom d'Horta, with a race distance of 4 km. The Gold medal was won by Briton Chris Boardman, riding the Lotus 108 "superbike", who caught German Jens Lehmann in the final and won Britain's first cycling gold medal in 72 years.
Medalists Gold: Silver: Bronze:
Results Q Qualified for next round. q Qualified for classification round. overtaken Overtaken by opponent during heat. cap captured opponent. DNS Did not start. WR New world record.
Qualifying round Held, July 27
The thirty 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 sixteen fastest times advanced, regardless of whether they won or lost their match. Fastest eight times advanced to Group A quarter-finals. Places nine through sixteen advanced to Group B classification matches.
Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed Qual. Notes 1 Chris Boardman 4:27.357 53.860 km/h Q WR 2 Jens Lehmann 4:30.054 53.322 km/h Q 3 Mark Kingsland 4:31.033 53.30 km/h Q 4 Gary Anderson 4:32.253 52.891 km/h Q 5 Philippe Ermenault 4:33.892 52.575 km/h Q 6 Carl Sundquist 4:34.390 52.480 km/h Q 7 Oleksandr Honchenkov 4:35.057 52.352 km/h Q 8 Jan Petersen 4:35.904 52.192 km/h Q 9 Cédric Mathy 4:37.288 51.931 km/h q 10 Ivan Beltrami 4:39.645 51.493 km/h q 11 Robert Karśnicki 4:39.836 51.458 km/h q 12 Servais Knaven 4:40.436 51.348 km/h q 13 Michal Baldrián 4:41.724 51.113 km/h q 14 Adolfo Alperi 4:42.538 50.996 km/h q 15 Michael Belcourt 4:43.135 50.859 km/h q 16 Masamitsu Ehara 4:44.412 50.630 km/h q 17 Viktor Kunz 4:45.539 50.430 km/h 18 Georgios Portelanos 4:46.345 50.288 km/h 19 Patrick Matt 4:46.982 50.117 km/h 20 Alberny Vargas 4:49.067 49.815 km/h 21 Tony Ledgard 4:49.626 49.719 km/h 22 Murugayan Kumaresan 4:59.049 48.152 km/h 23 Weng Yu-yi 5:00.519 47.917 km/h 24 Manuel García 5:03.997 47.368 km/h 25 Mehrdad Afsharian Tarshiz 5:08.184 46.725 km/h - Hernán López overtaken - Steffen Kjærgaard overtaken - Malcolm Lange overtaken - Robert Peters overtaken - Raúl Domínguez DNS
Quarter-finals Held July 28 In the first round of actual match competition, cyclists were seeded into matches based on their times from the qualifying round. The winners of the four heats of Group A advanced to the semi-finals. Group B and the losers of heats in Group A were seeded.
Group B Heat 1 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed 1 Servais Knaven 4:36.541 2 Michal Baldrián 4:39.625 Heat 2 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed 1 Adolfo Alperi 4:34.760 52.409 km/h 2 Robert Karśnicki 4:35.184 52.328 km/h Heat 3 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed 1 Ivan Beltrami 4:36.150 52.145 km/h 2 Michael Belcourt 4:42.441 50.984 km/h Heat 4 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed 1 Cédric Mathy 4:33.942 52.565 km/h 2 Masamitsu Ehara 4:41.287 51.193 km/h
Group A Heat 1 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed Qual. 1 Gary Anderson 4:27.954 53.740 km/h Q 2 Philippe Ermenault 4:28.838 51.113 km/h Heat 2 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed Qual. 1 Mark Kingsland 4:29.173 53.497 km/h Q 2 Carl Sundquist ovtk Heat 3 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed Qual. 1 Jens Lehmann 4:27.715 53.788 km/h Q 2 Oleksandr Honchenkov ovtk Heat 4 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed Qual.Notes 1 Chris Boardman 4:24.496 54.443 km/h Q WR 2 Jan Petersen ovtk
Semi-finals Held July 29 The winner of the two heats advance to the finals, for the gold medal. The loser with the fastest semi-final time wins the bronze.
Heat 1 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed Qual. 1 Jens Lehmann 4:27.230 53.886 km/h Q 2 Gary Anderson 4:31.061 53.124 km/h Heat 2 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed Qual. 1 Chris Boardman 4:29.332 53.465 km/h Q 2 Mark Kingsland 4:32.716 52.802 km/h
Final Held July 29 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed 1 Chris Boardman cap 48.160 km/h 2 Jens Lehman ovtk
Final classification Final resultsPos. Athlete NOC 1. Chris Boardman 2. Jens Lehman 3. Gary Anderson 4. Mark Kingsland 5. Philippe Ermenault 6. Cédric Mathy 7. Adolfo Alperi 8. Ivan Beltrami 9. Servais Knaven 10. Jan Petersen 11. Oleksandr Honchenkov 12. Carl Sundquist 13. Robert Karśnicki 14. Michal Baldrián 15. Masamitsu Ehara 16. Michael Belcourt
References
External links Official Olympic Report