Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's team pursuit

Infobox Olympic event
event = Men's team pursuit
games = 2008 Summer


caption = The medal ceremony
venue = Laoshan Velodrome
dates = August 17 (opening rounds) August 18 (final)
competitors = 44
nations = 10
win_value = 3:53.314 WR|cycling
gold = flagIOC|GBR|2008 Summer Ed Clancy, Paul Manning, Geraint Thomas, Bradley Wiggins
silver = flagIOC|DEN|2008 Summer Casper Jørgensen, Jens-Erik Madsen, Michael Mørkøv, Alex Nicki Rasmussen, Michael Færk Christensen
bronze = flagIOC|NZL|2008 Summer Sam Bewley, Hayden Roulston, Marc Ryan, Jesse Sergent, Westley Gough
prev = 2004
next =

The men's team pursuit at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place between August 17 and 18, at the Laoshan Velodrome.

This track cycling event consisted of multiple rounds. Cyclists competed in teams of four. In the first round, each team performed a time trial on the 4 kilometer track. Times were recorded based on the third rider of each team. The top eight teams in the qualifying round advanced to the match round. In that round, teams were paired off based on the seeding from the qualifying round. The winners of the four matches advanced to the final round, while the losers were ranked according to their times in the match round (5th to 8th). The top two winning times from the match round advanced their teams to the gold medal final while the slower two winners competed in the bronze medal final. [http://en.beijing2008.cn/sports/cyclingtrack/n214431064.shtml]

Qualification

Great Britain automatically qualified a team because of their victory at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. They also won the late 2007 World Cup event in Sydney, affording another place based on UCI rankings. This extra place was given to Colombia. No B World Championship was held in this event.

Team rosters

*Volodymyr Dyudya
*Lyubomyr Polatayko
*Maksym Polishchyuk
*Vitaliy Shchedov
*Sergi Escobar
*Asier Maeztu
*David Muntaner
*Antonio Miguel Parra
*Levi Heimans
*Robert Slippens
*Wim Stroetinga
*Jens Mouris
*Jack Bobridge
*Mark Jamieson
*Bradley McGee
*Luke Roberts*
*Graeme Brown
*Michael Færk Christensen*
*Casper Jørgensen
*Jens-Erik Madsen
*Alex Nicki Rasmussen
*Michael Mørkøv
*Juan Estaban Arango
*Arles Castro
*Juan Pablo Forero
*Jairo Pérez
*Damien Gaudin
*Matthieu Ladagnous
*Christophe Riblon
*Nicolas Rousseau
*Alexei Markov
*Alexander Petrovskiy
*Alexander Serov
*Nikolay Trusov*
*Evgeny Kovalev
*Sam Bewley
*Westley Gough*
*Marc Ryan
*Jesse Sergent
*Hayden Roulston
*Ed Clancy
*Paul Manning
*Geraint Thomas
*Bradley Wiggins

* = Competed in preliminary round only

Preliminary round

http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/CT/C73B1/CTM402900.shtml#CTM402900] 4,000 meter team time trial, with the top 8 teams advancing.

;Match 3;Bronze medal match

References