2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team pursuit explained

The Men's team pursuit at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on February 20. 15 nations 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.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Glenn O'Shea Alex Edmondson Michael Hepburn Alexander Morgan
Silver	Steven Burke Ed Clancy Sam Harrison Andrew Tennant
Bronze	Lasse Norman Hansen Casper Folsach Mathias Møller Rasmus Christian Quaade

Results

Qualifying

The qualifying was held at 13:00.^[2]

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Glenn O'Shea Alex Edmondson Michael Hepburn Alexander Morgan	3:59.325	Q
2	Steven Burke Ed Clancy Samuel Harrison Andrew Tennant	3:59.784	Q
3	Lasse Norman Hansen Casper Folsach Mathias Møller Rasmus Quaade	4:00.841	Q
4	Unai Elorriaga Zubiaur Eloy Teruel Rovira Asier Maeztu Billelabeitia Sebastián Mora Vedri	4:04.587	Q
5	Artur Ershov Evgeny Kovalev Ivan Kovalev Alexander Serov	4:04.840
6	Lucas Liss Henning Bommel Maximilian Beyer Theo Reinhardt	4:05.152
7	Jasper De Buyst Kenny De Ketele Dominique Cornu Gijs van Hoecke	4:05.334
8	Loïc Perizzolo Stefan Küng Silvan Dillier Tristan Marguet	4:05.827
9	Liam Bertazzo Marco Coledan Ignazio Moser Michele Scartezzini	4:07.793
10	Cao Bo Shi Tao Wu Wenguo Zhao Kang	4:09.998
11	Ondřej Rybín Roman Furst František Sisr Ondrej Vendolsky	4:11.573
12	Kwok Ho Ting Cheung King Lok Cheung King Wai Chun Wing Leung	4:11.585
13	Artyom Zakharov Dmitriy Lukyanov Dias Omirzakov Ivan Tsissaruk	4:13.701
14	Volodymyr Kogut Sergiy Lagkuti Oleksandr Lobov Vitaliy Shchedov	4:13.852
15	Aleh Ahiyevich Aliaksandr Lisouski Yauheni Shamsonau Andrei Snitko	4:16.278

Finals

The finals were held at 21:15.^[3]

Small Final

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
	Lasse Norman Hansen Casper Folsach Mathias Møller Rasmus Quaade		3:59.821
	Unal Elorriaga Zubiaur Eloy Teruel Rovira Asier Maeztu Billelabeitia Sebastián Mora Vedri		4:05.569

Final

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
	Glenn O'Shea Alex Edmondson Michael Hepburn Alexander Morgan		3:56.751
	Steven Burke Ed Clancy Samuel Harrison Andrew Tennant		4:00.967

Notes and References

http://www.tissottiming.com/File/Download?id=00030A0004010463FFFFFFFFFFFFFF01 Start list
http://www.tissottiming.com/File/Download?id=00030A0004010463FFFFFFFFFFFFFF02 Qualifying Results
http://www.tissottiming.com/File/Download?id=00030A0004010401FFFFFFFFFFFFFF02 Final Results