Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's individual pursuit

Infobox Olympic event
event = Women's individual pursuit
games = 2008 Summer


caption =
venue = Laoshan Velodrome
dates = August 15 (preliminaries) August 16 (semifinals) August 17 (final)
competitors = 13
nations = 11
win_value = 3:28.321
gold = Rebecca Romero
goldNOC = GBR
silver = Wendy Houvenaghel
silverNOC = GBR
bronze = Lesya Kalitovska
bronzeNOC = UKR
prev = 2004
next =

The women's individual pursuit at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 17 at the Laoshan Velodrome.

The first round of this track cycling event consisted of head-to-head races over a 3000 m distance, but with the results being treated as time trial results rather than elimination rounds. The top eight times from the first round qualified the cyclists for the elimination round, and either or both of the cyclists in each first round race could move on. In the match round, the eight cyclists were paired off according to the seeding from the first round. The winner of each match round match advanced to the final, while the four losers were given final rankings (5th through 8th) based on their times in the match round. The four finalists were placed into the gold medal match and bronze medal match based on their times in the match round. [citeweb|url=http://en.beijing2008.cn/sports/cyclingtrack/n214431064.shtml|title=Competition Format|publisher=The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games|accessdate=2008-08-16]

Preliminaries

The thirteen cyclists were matched into six two-rider heats and one heat of a single rider in the preliminary round. The eight riders with the fastest recorded times progressed to the match rounds.

Per the start listciteweb|url=http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/CT/C51A/CTW002900.shtml#CTW002900|title=Start List - Women's Ind. Pursuit Qualifying|publisher=The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games|date=2008-08-15|accessdate=2008-08-16] and the qualifying result. [citeweb|url=http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/CT/C73A1/CTW002900.shtml#CTW002900|title=Result - Women's Ind. Pursuit Qualifying|publisher=The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games|date=2008-08-16|2008-08-16]

;Match 3;Bronze medal match

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