Cycling at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit explained

Event:	Men's cycling team pursuit
Games:	1976 Summer
Venue:	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Date:	23–24 July 1976
Competitors:	64
Nations:	16
Gold:	Gregor Braun, Günther Schumacher, Hans Lutz, Peter Vonhof
Goldnoc:	FRG
Silver:	Aleksandr Perov, Viktor Sokolov, Vitaly Petrakov, Vladimir Osokin
Silvernoc:	URS
Bronze:	Ian Hallam, Ian Banbury, Michael Bennett, Robin Croker
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	1972
Next:	1980

These are the official results of the Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, held on 23 and 24 July 1976.^[1] There were 64 participant from 16 nations. In the first round each team raced alone, with the first eight teams qualifying for the quarterfinals.

Competition format

The team pursuit competition consisted of a qualifying round and a 3-round knockout tournament, including a bronze medal race. Each race, in both the qualifying round and the knock-out rounds, consisted of two teams of 4 cyclists each starting from opposite sides of the track. The teams raced for 4,000 metres, attempting to finish with the fastest time (measured by the third rider) and, if possible, catch the other team. For the qualifying round, the eight fastest times overall (regardless of whether the team finished first or second in its heat, though any team that was overtaken was eliminated) earned advancement to the knockout rounds. In the knockout rounds, the winner of each heat advanced to the next round. Teams could change members between rounds.^[2]

Results

Qualifying round

Rank	Cyclists	Nation	Time	Notes
1			4:23.67
2			4:24.11
3			4:24.32
4			4:26.22
5			4:27.21
6			4:27.43
7			4:30.47
8			4:30.90
9			4:31.06
10			4:31.25
11			4:31.90
12			4:33.32
13			4:34.27
14			4:37.03
15			4:42.65
16			4:47.82
data-sort-value=17	–

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Cyclists	Nation	Time	Notes
1			4:23.78
2			4:27.21

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Cyclists	Nation	Time	Notes
1			4:20.10
2			4:30.11

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Cyclists	Nation	Time	Notes
1			4:21.31
2			Overtaken

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Cyclists	Nation	Time	Notes
1			4:22.69
2			4:30.39

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Cyclists	Nation	Time	Notes
1			4:20.95
2				4:25.23

Semifinal 2

Rank	Cyclists	Nation	Time	Notes
1			4:23.04
2			4:28.04

Finals

Bronze medal match

Rank	Cyclists	Nation	Time
			4:22.41
4			4:22.75

Final

Rank	Cyclists	Nation	Time
			4:21.06
			4:27.15

Final classification

RANK	NAME CYCLISTS	TEAM
	Gregor Braun Günther Schumacher Hans Lutz Peter Vonhof
	Aleksandr Perov Viktor Sokolov Vitaly Petrakov Vladimir Osokin
	Ian Hallam Ian Banbury Michael Bennett Robin Croker
4.	Norbert Dürpisch Thomas Huschke Uwe Unterwalder Matthias Wiegand
5.	Zdeněk Dohnal Michal Klasa Petr Kocek Jiří Pokorný
	Gerrit Möhlmann Gerrie Slot Herman Ponsteen Peter Nieuwenhuis
	Sandro Callari Cesare Cipollini Rino De Candido Giuseppe Saronni
	Jan Jankiewicz Czesław Lang Krzysztof Sujka Zbigniew Szczepkowski
9.	Paul Bonno Jean-Marcel Brouzes Jean-Jacques Rebière Pierre Trentin
10.	Leonard Nitz Paul Deem Ralph Therrio Ron Skarin
11.	Adrian Prosser Hugh Walton Jocelyn Lovell Ron Hayman
12.	Geoff Skaines John Thorsen Kevin Nichols Stephen Goodall
13.	Ivar Jakobsen Kim Refshammer Bjarne Sørensen Kim Svendsen
14.	Yoichi Machishima Tadashi Ogasawara Yoshiaki Ogasawara Tsutomu Okabori
15.	Carlos Mesa Jhon Quiceno Jorge Hernández José Jaime Galeano
16.	Miguel Margalef Víctor González Waldemar Pedrazzi Washington Díaz

External links

Official Report

Notes and References

Web site: Cycling at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games: Men's team pursuit . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417195243/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1976/CYC/mens-team-pursuit-4000-metres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 29 April 2015 . Sports Reference.
Official Report, vol. 3, pp. 195–197.