Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit


The men's team pursuit event in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics consisted of matches between two teams of four cyclists. The teams started at opposite ends of the track. They had 16 laps in which to catch the other cyclist. If neither was caught before one had gone 16 laps, the times for the distance were used to determine the victor. The Australia-Great Britain rivalry continued in an event which saw a new world record.

Medalists

Results

Qualifying round

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.
RankTeamNamesTime
1Graeme Brown
Peter Dawson
Brett Lancaster
Stephen Wooldridge
4:00.613 Q
2Steve Cummings
Paul Manning
Chris Newton
Bryan Steel
4:03.985 Q
3Carlos Castaño
Sergi Escobar
Asier Maeztu
Carlos Torrent
4:04.421 Q
4Robert Bartko
Guido Fulst
Christian Lademann
Leif Lampater
4:05.823 Q
5Levi Heimans
Jens Mouris
Peter Schep
Jeroen Straathof
4:06.286 Q
6Volodymyr Dyudya
Roman Kononenko
Sergiy Matveyev
Vitaliy Popkov
4:07.175 Q
7Mathieu Ladagnous
Anthony Langella
Jérôme Neuville
Fabien Sanchez
4:07.336 Q
8Linas Balciunas
Aivaras Baranauskas
Tomas Vaitkus
Raimondas Vilčinskas
4:08.812 Q
9Vladislav Borisov
Alexander Khatuntsev
Alexei Markov
Andrey Minashkin
4:09.394
10Hayden Godfrey
Peter Latham
Matthew Randall
Marc Ryan
4:10.820

Match round

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
4:03.785 Q
4:04.605

;Heat 2
4:02.374 Q
4:05.266

;Heat 3
3:59.866 Q
lapped

;Heat 4
Australia set a world record time in this match.
3:56.610 Q
lapped

Medal round

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
4:05.523
4:07.193

;Gold medal match
3:58.233
4:01.760

Final classification

The final results are: