Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit explained

Event:	Cycling – Men's team pursuit
Games:	1980 Summer
Venue:	Moscow Olympic Velodrome
Dates:	25–26 July
Competitors:	53
Nations:	13
Gold:	Viktor Manakov Valery Movchan Vladimir Osokin Vitaly Petrakov Aleksandr Krasnov
Goldnoc:	URS
Silver:	Gerald Mortag Uwe Unterwalder Matthias Wiegand Volker Winkler
Silvernoc:	GDR
Bronze:	Teodor Černý Martin Penc Jiří Pokorný Igor Sláma
Bronzenoc:	TCH
Prev:	1976
Next:	1984

The men's team pursuit event at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place on 25 and 26 July 1980 in Moscow Olympic Velodrome.^{[1] [2]}

Results

Qualifying

Rank	Cyclists	Land	Time	Speed (km/h)	Qualified
1			4:16.62	56.1147	Q
2			4:18.24	55.7627	Q
3			4:18.85	55.6317	Q
4			4:19.56	55.4787	Q
5			4:19.73	55.4227	Q
6			4:20.52	55.2747	Q
7			4:20.56	55.2667	Q
8			4:21.76	55.0127	Q
9			4:28.38	53.6557
10			4:29.75	53.383
11			4:32.34	52.875
12			4:36.32	52.113
13			4:50.83	49.513

Quarter finals

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Qualified
1		4:18.48	55.710	Q
2		4:23.45	54.659

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Qualified
1		4:18.27	55.756	Q
2		4:18.58	55.689

Heat 3

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Qualified
1		4:17.43	55.937	Q
2		4:23.56	54.636

Heat 4

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Qualified
1		4:14.64	56.550	Q
2		4:22.02	54.958

Semi finals

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Qualified
1		4:18.16	55.779	Q
2		4:20.13	55.357

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Qualified
1		4:26.52	54.030	Q
2		4:32.68	52.809

Finals

Bronze medal race

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Place
1		4:10.01
2		4:11.63	REL	4

Gold medal race

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Place
1		4:15.70	56.316
2		4:19.67	55.453

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cycling at the 1980 Summer Games: Men's team pursuit. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418131950/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1980/CYC/mens-team-pursuit-4000-metres.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 15 March 2015 . Sports Reference.
2. Book: The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 Volume 3. 205. 17 March 2015.