Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit

The men's team pursuit event in cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics 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
France (FRA) Christophe Capelle Philippe Ermenault Jean-Michel Monin Francis Moreau	Russia (RUS) Eduard Gritsun Nikolay Kuznetsov Alexei Markov Anton Shantyr	Australia (AUS) Brett Aitken Stuart O'Grady Timothy O'Shannessey Dean Woods

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

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 nine teams receiving a rank based on their time in this round.

Rank	Team	Names	Time	Qualification
1	France	Christophe Capelle Philippe Ermenault Jean-Michel Monin Francis Moreau	4:09.570	q
2	Italy	Adler Capelli Mauro Trentini Andrea Collinelli Cristiano Citton	4:09.695	q
3	Australia	Bradley McGee Stuart O'Grady Timothy O'Shannessey Dean Woods	4:09.750	q
4	Ukraine	Bohdan Bondaryev Oleksandr Fedenko Andriy Yatsenko Alexander Simonenko	4:11.545	q
5	Russia	Eduard Gritsun Nikolay Kuznetsov Aleksey Markov Anton Chantyr	4:11.665	q
6	United States	Dirk Copeland Mariano Friedick Adam Laurent Michael McCarthy	4:11.950	q
7	Spain	Juan Martínez Oliver Juan Llaneras Santos González Adolfo Alperi	4:12.780	q
8	New Zealand	Gregory Henderson Brendon Cameron Timothy Carswell Julian Dean	4:15.140	q
9	Germany	Robert Bartko Guido Fulst Danilo Hondo Heiko Szonn	4:15.140
10	Great Britain	Robert Hayes Matthew Illingsworth Bryan Steel Chris Newton	4:16.510
11	Lithuania	Arturas Kasputis Remigijus Lupeikis Mindaugas Umaras Arturas Trumpauskas	4:16.050
12	Netherlands	Jarich Bakker Robertus Michie Slippens Richard Rozendaal Peter Schep	4:16.175
13	Denmark	Frederik Bertelsen Jimmi Madsen Michael Nielsen Jacob Piil	4:16.175
14	Argentina	Walter Pérez Edgardo Simón Gonzalo Garcia Gabriel Curuchet	4:20.840
15	South Korea	Dae-Hong Chun Young Chung Jong-Mo Kim Younk-Sik Noh	4:25.215
16	Chile	José Medina Luis Fernando Sepúlveda Marco Arriagada Marcelo Arriagada	4:25.960
17	Colombia	Jhon García Marlon Pérez Yovani López José Velásquez de la Cuesta	4:26.400

Match round- Quarter Finals

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

Team	Names	Time	Qualification	Records	Overall Place
Russia	Eduard Gritsun, Nikolay Kuznetsov, Aleksey Markov, Anton Chantyr	4:08.785	Q	OR	(1st)
Ukraine	Bohdan Bondaryev, Oleksandr Fedenko, Andriy Yatsenko, Alexander Simonenko	4:12.794			(7th)

Heat 2

Team	Names	Time	Qualification	Overall Place
Australia	Bradley McGee, Stuart O'Grady, Timothy O'Shannessey, Dean Woods	4:09.650	Q	(4th)
United States	Dirk Copeland, Mariano Friedick, Adam Laurent, Michael McCarthy	4:12.470		(6th)

Heat 3

Team	Names	Time	Qualification	Overall Place
Italy	Adler Capelli, Mauro Trentini, Andrea Collinelli, Cristiano Citton	4:09.215	Q	(3rd)
Spain	Juan Martinez, Juan Llaneras, Santos Gonzalez, Adolfo Alperi	4:11.310		(5th)

Heat 4

Team	Names	Time	Qualification	Overall Place
France	Christophe Capelle, Philippe Ermenault, Jean-Michel Monin, Francis Moreau	4:08.965	Q	(2nd)
New Zealand	Gregory Henderson, Brendon Cameron, Timothy Carswell, Julian Dean	4:15.610		(8th)

Match round- Semi-Finals

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

Heat 1

Team	Names	Time	Qualification	Records	Overall Place
France	Christophe Capelle, Philippe Ermenault, Jean-Michel Monin, Francis Moreau	4:06.880	Q	OR	(1st)
Italy	Adler Capelli, Mauro Trentini, Andrea Collinelli, Cristiano Citton	4:08.460			(4th)

Heat 2

Team	Names	Time	Qualification	Records	Overall Place
Russia	Eduard Gritsun, Nikolay Kuznetsov, Aleksey Markov, Anton Chantyr	4:06.885	Q		(2nd)
Australia	Bradley McGee, Stuart O'Grady, Timothy O'Shannessey, Dean Woods	4:07.570			(3rd)

Medal round

The third fastest team from the semi-finals received the Bronze Medal. The fastest two teams competed for the gold and silver medals.

Gold medal match

Team	Names	Time	Records
France	Christophe Capelle, Philippe Ermenault, Jean-Michel Monin, Francis Moreau	4:05.930	OR
Russia	Eduard Gritsun, Nikolay Kuznetsov, Aleksey Markov, Anton Chantyr	4:07.730

Final classification

The final classification was:

1.  France (FRA)
2.  Russia (RUS)
3.  Australia (AUS)
4.  Italy (ITA)
5.  Spain (ESP)
6.  United States (USA)
7.  Ukraine (UKR)
8.  New Zealand (NZL)

References

• Official Olympic Report