Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit

The men's team pursuit event in cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held on Sunday, 17 September, and Monday, 18 September 2000 at the Dunc Gray Velodrome. The competition 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.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Germany (GER) Guido Fulst Robert Bartko Daniel Becke Jens Lehmann	Ukraine (UKR) Serhii Cherniavskyi Serhiy Matvyeyev Oleksandr Symonenko Oleksandr Fedenko	Great Britain (GBR) Paul Manning Chris Newton Bryan Steel Bradley Wiggins

Records

World and Olympic records prior to the Games.

World Record	4:00.958	Italy	Manchester, Great Britain	31 August 1996
Olympic Record	4:05.930	France	Atlanta, USA	27 July 1996

Results

• Q denotes qualification by place in heat.
• q denotes qualification by overall place.
• DNS denotes did not start.
• DNF denotes did not finish.
• DQ denotes disqualification.
• NR denotes national record.
• OR denotes Olympic record.
• WR denotes world record.
• PB denotes personal best.
• SB denotes season best.

Qualifying round

Held 18 September 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	Qualification	Record
1	Great Britain (GBR)	Bryan Steel Paul Manning Bradley Wiggins Chris Newton	4:04.030	q	OR
2	Ukraine (UKR)	Oleksandr Fedenko Oleksandr Symonenko Serhiy Matvyeyev Serhii Cherniavskyi	4:04.078	q
3	France (FRA)	Cyril Bos Philippe Ermenault Francis Moreau Jerome Neuville	4:05.155	q
4	Germany (GER)	Guido Fulst Olaf Pollack Daniel Becke Jens Lehmann	4:05.750	q
5	Australia (AUS)	Brett Aitken Graeme Brown Brett Lancaster Michael Rogers	4:06.361	q
6	New Zealand (NZL)	Tim Carswell Lee Vertongen Gary Anderson Greg Henderson	4:08.463	q
7	Netherlands (NED)	John den Braber Robert Slippens Jens Mouris Wilco Zuijderwijk	4:09.590	q
8	Russia (RUS)	Vladimir Karpets Alexey Markov Vladislav Borisov Denis Smyslov	4:09.910	q
9	Argentina (ARG)	Walter Fernando Perez Edgardo Simón Gonzalo Martin Garcia Guillermo Brunetta	4:10.940
10	United States (USA)	Derek Bouchard-Hall Mariano Friedick Tommy Mulkey Erin Hartwell	4:12.494
11	Italy (ITA)	Mario Benetton Adler Capelli Cristiano Citton Marco Villa	4:15.451
12	Spain (ESP)	Miguel Alzamora Isaac Gálvez Antonio Tauler José Francisco Jarque	4:15.547

Match round- Quarter Finals

Held 18 September.
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

Germany (GER)	Guido Fulst, Robert Bartko, Daniel Becke, Jens Lehmann	4:01.810	Q	OR	(4th)
Australia (AUS)	Brett Aitken, Graeme Brown Brett Lancaster, Michael Rogers	4:03.209			(5th)

Heat 2

France (FRA)	Cyril Bos, Philippe Ermenault Francis Moreau, Jerome Neuville	4:05.224	Q	(3rd)
New Zealand (NZL)	Tim Carswell, Lee Vertongen Gary Anderson, Greg Henderson	4:06.495		(6th)

Heat 3

Ukraine (UKR)	Oleksandr Fedenko, Oleksandr Symonenko Serhiy Matvyeyev, Serhii Cherniavskyi	4:03.359	Q	(2nd)
Netherlands (NED)	John den Braber, Robert Slippens Jens Mouris, Wilco Zuijderwijk	lapped		(7th)

Heat 4

Great Britain (GBR)	Bryan Steel, Paul Manning Bradley Wiggins, Chris Newton	4:04.143	Q	(1st)
Russia (RUS)	Vladimir Karpets, Alexey Markov Vladislav Borisov, Denis Smyslov	lapped		(8th)

Match round- Semi-Finals

Held 19 September.

Winners advanced to the medal round while losers in each match received a final ranking based on their time in the round.

Heat 1

Ukraine (UKR)	Oleksandr Fedenko, Oleksandr Symonenko Serhiy Matvyeyev, Serhii Cherniavskyi	4:00.830	Q	WR	(2nd)
Great Britain (GBR)	Jon Clay, Paul Manning Bradley Wiggins, Rob Hayles	4:02.387			(3rd)

Heat 2

Germany (GER)	Guido Fulst, Robert Bartko, Daniel Becke, Jens Lehmann	4:05.930	Q	(1st)
France (FRA)	Cyril Bos, Philippe Ermenault Francis Moreau, Jerome Neuville	4:11.549		(4th)

Medal round

Held 19 September 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

Great Britain (GBR)	Bryan Steel, Paul Manning Bradley Wiggins, Chris Newton	4:01.979
France (FRA)	Cyril Bos, Philippe Ermenault Francis Moreau, Jerome Neuville	4:05.991

Gold medal match

Germany (GER)	Guido Fulst, Robert Bartko, Daniel Becke, Jens Lehmann	3:59.710
Ukraine (UKR)	Oleksandr Fedenko, Oleksandr Symonenko Serhiy Matvyeyev, Serhii Cherniavskyi	4:04.520

Final classification

The final classification was:

1.  Germany (GER)
2.  Ukraine (UKR)
3.  Great Britain (GBR)
4.  France (FRA)
5.  Australia (AUS)
6.  New Zealand (NZL)
7.  Netherlands (NED)
8.  Russia (RUS)

External links

• Official Olympic Report