Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit

Men's team pursuit
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Olympic track cycling
VenuesVélodrome National de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Dates5–7 August 2024
Competitors41 from 10 nations
Teams10
Winning time3:42.067
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Oliver Bleddyn
Conor Leahy
Kelland O'Brien
Sam Welsford
 Australia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Daniel Bigham
Ethan Hayter
Charlie Tanfield
Ethan Vernon
Oliver Wood
 Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Simone Consonni
Filippo Ganna
Francesco Lamon
Jonathan Milan
 Italy
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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

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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

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Competition format

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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

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All times are Central European Time (UTC+2)[1]

Date Time Round
5 August 17:27 Qualifying
6 August 19:14 First round
7 August 18:04 Finals

Results

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Qualifying

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Rank Nation Time[2] Notes
1  Australia
Oliver Bleddyn
Sam Welsford
Conor Leahy
Kelland O'Brien
3:42.958 Q
2  Great Britain
Ethan Hayter
Oliver Wood
Daniel Bigham
Ethan Vernon
3:43.241 Q
3  Denmark
Tobias Hansen
Niklas Larsen
Carl-Frederik Bévort
Rasmus Pedersen
3:43.690 Q
4  Italy
Simone Consonni
Filippo Ganna
Francesco Lamon
Jonathan Milan
3:44.351 Q
5  France
Thomas Boudat
Benjamin Thomas
Thomas Denis
Valentin Tabellion
3:45.514 q
6  New Zealand
Aaron Gate
Keegan Hornblow
Tom Sexton
Campbell Stewart
3:45.616 q
7  Belgium
Lindsay De Vylder
Fabio Van den Bossche
Tuur Dens
Noah Vandenbranden
3:47.232 q
8  Canada
Dylan Bibic
Mathias Guillemette
Michael Foley
Carson Mattern
3:48.964 q
9  Germany
Roger Kluge
Tim Torn Teutenberg
Tobias Buck-Gramcko
Theo Reinhardt
3:50.083
10  Japan
Shunsuke Imamura
Kazushige Kuboki
Eiya Hashimoto
Shinji Nakano
3:53.489

First round

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Heat Rank Nation Time[3] Notes
1 1  New Zealand
Aaron Gate
Keegan Hornblow
Tom Sexton
Campbell Stewart
3:43.776
1 2  Belgium
Lindsay De Vylder
Fabio Van den Bossche
Tuur Dens
Noah Vandenbranden
3:45.685
2 1  France
Thomas Boudat
Benjamin Thomas
Thomas Denis
Valentin Tabellion
3:45.531
2 2  Canada
Dylan Bibic
Mathias Guillemette
Michael Foley
Carson Mattern
3:49.245
3 1  Great Britain
Ethan Hayter
Oliver Wood
Charlie Tanfield
Ethan Vernon
3:42.151 QG
3 2  Denmark
Tobias Hansen
Niklas Larsen
Carl-Frederik Bévort
Rasmus Pedersen
3:42.803 QB
4 1  Australia
Oliver Bleddyn
Sam Welsford
Conor Leahy
Kelland O'Brien
3:40.730 QG, WR
4 2  Italy
Simone Consonni
Filippo Ganna
Francesco Lamon
Jonathan Milan
3:43.205 QB

Finals

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Rank Nation Time[4] Notes
Gold medal final
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Australia
Oliver Bleddyn
Sam Welsford
Conor Leahy
Kelland O'Brien
3:42.067
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Great Britain
Ethan Hayter
Daniel Bigham
Charlie Tanfield
Ethan Vernon
3:44.394
Bronze medal final
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Italy
Simone Consonni
Filippo Ganna
Francesco Lamon
Jonathan Milan
3:44.197
4  Denmark
Tobias Hansen
Niklas Larsen
Carl-Frederik Bévort
Rasmus Pedersen
3:46.138
Fifth place final
5  New Zealand
Aaron Gate
Keegan Hornblow
Tom Sexton
Campbell Stewart
3:44.741
6  France
Thomas Boudat
Benjamin Thomas
Thomas Denis
Valentin Tabellion
3:47.697
Seventh place final
7  Canada
Dylan Bibic
Mathias Guillemette
Michael Foley
Carson Mattern
3:54.517
 Belgium
Lindsay De Vylder
Fabio Van den Bossche
Tuur Dens
Noah Vandenbranden
DNF

References

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  1. ^ "Olympic Schedule - Cycling Track", Olympics.com. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Cycling Track – Men's Team Pursuit – Qualifying – Results" (PDF). olympics.com. 5 August 2024. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Cycling Track – Men's Team Pursuit – First Round – Results" (PDF). olympics.com. 6 August 2024. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  4. ^ "Cycling Track – Men's Team Pursuit – Final Classification" (PDF). olympics.com. 7 August 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.