2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team pursuit

Rainbow jersey

The Men's team pursuit at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on April 4. 15 nations of 4 cyclists each participated in the contest. After the qualifying, the fastest 2 teams raced for gold, and 3rd and 4th teams raced for bronze.[1]

Medalists

Gold  Great Britain
Ed Clancy
Steven Burke
Peter Kennaugh
Geraint Thomas
Andrew Tennant
Silver  Australia
Glenn O'Shea
Jack Bobridge
Rohan Dennis
Michael Hepburn
Bronze  New Zealand
Aaron Gate
Sam Bewley
Westley Gough
Marc Ryan

Results

Qualifying

The qualifying was held at 15:00.[2]

Rank Name Nation Time Notes
1 Ed Clancy
Peter Kennaugh
Andrew Tennant
Geraint Thomas
 Great Britain 3:54.485 Q
2 Glenn O'Shea
Jack Bobridge
Rohan Dennis
Michael Hepburn
 Australia 3:54.654 Q
3 Aaron Gate
Sam Bewley
Westley Gough
Marc Ryan
 New Zealand 3:59.156 Q
4 Artur Ershov
Evgeny Kovalev
Alexei Markov
Alexander Serov
 Russia 3:59.290 Q
5 Pablo Aitor Bernal
Asier Maeztu Billelabeitia
Sebastián Mora Vedri
Albert Torres
 Spain 4:01.717
6 Gijs van Hoecke
Kenny De Ketele
Dominique Cornu
Jonathan Dufrasne
 Belgium 4:02.317
7 Lasse Norman Hansen
Casper Folsach
Rasmus Quaade
Christian Ranneries
 Denmark 4:03.237
8 Peter Schep
Levi Heimans
Arno van der Zwet
Tim Veldt
 Netherlands 4:04.489
9 Nikias Arndt
Henning Bommel
Jakob Steigmiller
Stefan Schaefer
 Germany 4:05.078
10 Jang Sun-jae
Park Keon-Woo
Park Seon-Ho
Park Sung-Baek
 South Korea 4:06.970
11 Silvan Dillier
Claudio Imhof
Loïc Perizzolo
Cyrille Thièry
  Switzerland 4:09.200
12 Luis Sepúlveda
Antonio Cabrera
Gonzalo Miranda
Pablo Seisdedos
 Chile 4:10.249
13 Oleksandr Lobov
Maxim Polischuk
Vitaliy Popkov
Vitaliy Shchedov
 Ukraine 4:10.943
14 Choi Ki Ho
Kwok Ho Ting
Cheung King Lok
Cheung King Wai
 Hong Kong 4:11.886
15 Alexey Lyalko
Dias Omirzakov
Ivan Tsissaruk
Artyom Zakharov
 Kazakhstan 4:13.145

Finals

The finals were held at 19:20.[3]

Small Final

Rank Name Nation Time Notes
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Aaron Gate
Sam Bewley
Westley Gough
Marc Ryan
 New Zealand 3:57.592
4 Artur Ershov
Evgeny Kovalev
Alexei Markov
Alexander Serov
 Russia 3:59.237

Final

Rank Name Nation Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ed Clancy
Peter Kennaugh
Steven Burke
Geraint Thomas
 Great Britain 3:53.295 WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Glenn O'Shea
Jack Bobridge
Rohan Dennis
Michael Hepburn
 Australia 3:53.401

References