2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team pursuit explained

The Men's Team Pursuit is one of the 10 men's events at the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Ballerup, Denmark.

Seventeen teams 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.

The Qualifying and the Finals were held on March 25.

Qualifying

RankName Nation Time Notes
1 Steven Burke
Ed Clancy
Ben Swift
Andy Tennant
3:56.869 Q
2 Jack Bobridge
Rohan Dennis
Michael Hepburn
Leigh Howard
3:58.185 Q
3 3:58.616 Q
4 Niki Byrgesen
Michael Færk Christensen
Jens-Erik Madsen
Rasmus Christian Quaade
4:02.259 Q
5 4:04.776
6 4:04.818
7 Ivan Kovalev
Victor Manakov
Alexei Markov
Alexander Serov
4:04.986
8 4:05.570
9 4:07.051
10 Robert Bartko
Robert Bengsch
Henning Bommel
Patrick Gretsch
4:07.265
11 Angelo Ciccone
Marco Coledan
Alessandro De Marchi
Elia Viviani
4:08.512
12 4:11.872
13 Stephen Barrett
Matt Brammeier
Martyn Irvine
David O'Loughlin
4:12.136
14 Pawel Brylowski
Dawid Glowacki
Piotr Kasperkiewicz
Grzegorz Stępniak
4:12.481
15 Damien Corthesy
Silvan Dillier
Loïc Perizzolo
Cyrille Thièry
4:13.023
16 Georgios Bouglas
Dimitrios Chidemenakis
Dimitrios Polydoropoulos
Polychronis Tzottzakis
4:14.765
17 Andreas Graf
Andreas Müller
Werner Riebenbauer
Georg Tazreiter
4:21.370

Finals

RankName !Nation Time
Gold Medal Race
Jack Bobridge
Rohan Dennis
Michael Hepburn
Cameron Meyer
3:55.654
Steven Burke
Ed Clancy
Ben Swift
Andy Tennant
3:55.806
Bronze Medal Race
3:59.475
4 Niki Byrgesen
Michael Færk Christensen
Jens-Erik Madsen
Rasmus Christian Quaade
4:01.664

References