2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team pursuit

Rainbow jersey

The Men's team pursuit at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on April 4. 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.

Medalists

Gold	Great Britain Ed Clancy Steven Burke Peter Kennaugh Geraint Thomas Andrew Tennant
Silver	Australia Glenn O'Shea Jack Bobridge Rohan Dennis Michael Hepburn
Bronze	New Zealand Aaron Gate Sam Bewley Westley Gough Marc Ryan

Results

Qualifying

The qualifying was held at 15:00.

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Ed Clancy Peter Kennaugh Andrew Tennant Geraint Thomas	Great Britain	3:54.485	Q
2	Glenn O'Shea Jack Bobridge Rohan Dennis Michael Hepburn	Australia	3:54.654	Q
3	Aaron Gate Sam Bewley Westley Gough Marc Ryan	New Zealand	3:59.156	Q
4	Artur Ershov Evgeny Kovalev Alexei Markov Alexander Serov	Russia	3:59.290	Q
5	Pablo Aitor Bernal Asier Maeztu Billelabeitia Sebastian Mora Vedri Albert Torres	Spain	4:01.717
6	Gijs van Hoecke Kenny De Ketele Dominique Cornu Jonathan Dufrasne	Belgium	4:02.317
7	Lasse Norman Hansen Casper Folsach Rasmus Quaade Christian Ranneries	Denmark	4:03.237
8	Peter Schep Levi Heimans Arno van der Zwet Tim Veldt	Netherlands	4:04.489
9	Nikias Arndt Henning Bommel Jakob Steigmiller Stefan Schaefer	Germany	4:05.078
10	Jang Sun-Jae Park Keon-Woo Park Seon-Ho Park Sung-Baek	South Korea	4:06.970
11	Silvan Dillier Claudio Imhof Loïc Perizzolo Cyrille Thiery	Switzerland	4:09.200
12	Luis Sepúlveda Antonio Cabrera Gonzalo Miranda Pablo Seisdedos	Chile	4:10.249
13	Oleksandr Lobov Maxim Polischuk Vitaliy Popkov Vitaliy Shchedov	Ukraine	4:10.943
14	Choi Ki Ho Kwok Ho Ting Cheung King Lok Cheung King Wai	Hong Kong	4:11.886
15	Alexey Lyalko Dias Omirzakov Ivan Tsissaruk Artyom Zakharov	Kazakhstan	4:13.145

Finals

The finals were held at 19:20.

Small Final

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
	Aaron Gate Sam Bewley Westley Gough Marc Ryan	New Zealand	3:57.592
4	Artur Ershov Evgeny Kovalev Alexei Markov Alexander Serov	Russia	3:59.237

Final

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
	Ed Clancy Peter Kennaugh Steven Burke Geraint Thomas	Great Britain	3:53.295	WR
	Glenn O'Shea Jack Bobridge Rohan Dennis Michael Hepburn	Australia	3:53.401