The men's team pursuit event in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics consisted of matches between two teams of four cyclists. The teams started at opposite ends of the track. They had 16 laps (4 kilometres) in which to catch the other cyclist. If neither was caught before one had gone 16 laps, the times for the distance (based on the third rider of the team to cross the line) were used to determine the victor. The Australia-Great Britain rivalry continued in an event which saw a new world record.
Medalists Gold Silver BronzeGraeme Brown Peter Dawson Brett Lancaster Brad McGee Luke RobertsStephen WooldridgeSteve Cummings Rob Hayles Paul Manning Bradley WigginsCarlos Castaño Sergi Escobar Asier Maeztu Carlos Torrent
Results
Qualifying round For the qualifying round, teams did not face each other. Instead, they raced the 4000 metres by themselves. The top eight times qualified for the first competition round, with the other two teams receiving a rank based on their time in this round.
Rank Team Names Time 1 Graeme BrownPeter DawsonBrett LancasterStephen Wooldridge 4:00.613 Q 2 Steve CummingsPaul ManningChris NewtonBryan Steel 4:03.985 Q 3 Carlos CastañoSergi EscobarAsier MaeztuCarlos Torrent 4:04.421 Q 4 Robert BartkoGuido FulstChristian LademannLeif Lampater 4:05.823 Q 5 Levi HeimansJens MourisPeter SchepJeroen Straathof 4:06.286 Q 6 Volodymyr DyudyaRoman KononenkoSergiy MatveyevVitaliy Popkov 4:07.175 Q 7 Mathieu Ladagnous Anthony LangellaJérôme NeuvilleFabien Sanchez 4:07.336 Q 8 Linas BalčiūnasAivaras BaranauskasTomas VaitkusRaimondas Vilčinskas 4:08.812 Q 9 Vladislav BorisovAlexander KhatuntsevAlexei MarkovAndrey Minashkin 4:09.394 10 Hayden GodfreyPeter LathamMatthew RandallMarc Ryan 4:10.820
Match round In the first round of match competition, teams were seeded into matches based on their times from the qualifying round. The fastest team faced the eighth-fastest, the second-fastest faced the third, and so forth. Winners advanced to the finals while losers in each match received a final ranking based on their time in the round.
Heat 1 4:03.785 Q (4th) 4:04.605 (5th)
Heat 2 4:02.374 Q (3rd) 4:05.266 (6th)
Heat 3 3:59.866 Q (2nd) lapped (7th)
Heat 4 Australia set a world record time in this match. 3:56.610 Q (1st) lapped (8th)
Medal round Teams were again re-seeded, this time based on their times in the match round. The third- and fourth-fastest teams faced off in the bronze medal match, while the fastest two teams competed for the gold and silver medals.
Bronze medal match 4:05.523 4:07.193
Gold medal match 3:58.233 4:01.760
Final classification The final results are:
References
External links Official Olympic Report