News Contents: Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics

2011-08-14

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

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

Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road race	men	women
Time trial	men	women
Track cycling
Individual pursuit	men	women
Team pursuit	men
Sprint	men	women
Team sprint	men
Time trial	men	women
Points race	men	women
Keirin	men
Madison	men
Mountain biking
Cross-country	men	women

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

Records

World and Olympic records prior to the Games.

Results

Qualifying round

Held September 18 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.

Match round- Quarter Finals

Held September 18th.
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

Match round- Semi-Finals

Held September 19th.

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

Heat 1

Medal round

Held September 19th 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.