# Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit

The men's team pursuit at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place between August 17 and 18, at the Laoshan Velodrome.

## Qualification

Great Britain automatically qualified a team because of their victory at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. They also won the late 2007 World Cup event in Sydney, affording another place based on UCI rankings. This extra place was given to Colombia. No B World Championship was held in this event.

## Competition format

The men's team pursuit race consists of a 4 km race between two teams of four cyclists, starting on opposite sides of the track. If one team catches the other, the race is over.
The tournament consisted of an initial qualifying round. The top four teams in the qualifying round remained in contention for the gold medal, the 5th to 8th place teams could compete for a possible bronze, and the remaining teams were eliminated.
In the first round of match competition, teams were seeded into matches based on their times from the qualifying round. The fastest team faced the eighth-fastest, the second-fastest faced the seventh, and so forth. Winners advanced to the finals while losers in each match received a final ranking based on their time in the round. Advancement to the bronze medal final was based solely on time, with the fastest two teams among the six qualifiers who had not advanced to the gold medal final reaching the bronze medal final.

## Schedule

All times are China standard time (UTC+8)
| Date | Time | Round |
| Sunday, 17 August 2008 | 10:00 | Qualification |
| Sunday, 17 August 2008 | 18:25 | Match round |
| Monday, 18 August 2008 | 18:15 | Final |

## Results
### Qualification

| Rank | Country | Cyclists | Result | Notes |
| 1 | Great Britain | Ed Clancy Paul Manning Geraint Thomas Bradley Wiggins | 3:57.101 | Q |
| 2 | New Zealand | Sam Bewley Westley Gough Marc Ryan Jesse Sergent | 3:59.277 | Q |
| 3 | Australia | Jack Bobridge Mark Jamieson Bradley McGee Luke Roberts | 4:02.041 | Q |
| 4 | Denmark | Michael Færk Christensen Casper Jørgensen Jens-Erik Madsen Alex Rasmussen | 4:02.191 | Q |
| 5 | France | Damien Gaudin Mathieu Ladagnous Christophe Riblon Nicolas Rousseau | 4:03.679 | Q |
| 6 | Netherlands | Levi Heimans Robert Slippens Wim Stroetinga Jens Mouris | 4:04.846 | Q |
| 7 | Spain | Sergi Escobar Asier Maeztu David Muntaner Antonio Miguel Parra | 4:06.509 | Q |
| 8 | Russia | Alexei Markov Alexander Petrovskiy Alexander Serov Nikolay Trusov | 4:06.518 | Q |
| 9 | Ukraine | Volodymyr Dyudya Lyubomyr Polatayko Maxim Polischuk Vitaliy Shchedov | 4:07.883 | |
| 10 | Colombia | Juan Esteban Arango Arles Castro Juan Pablo Forero Jairo Pérez | 4:11.397 | |

### Match round
#### Semifinals

Qualification rule: Two fastest teams advance to the gold medal match (Q), while the next two to the bronze medal match (q).
| Rank | Heat | Country | Cyclists | Result | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Great Britain | Ed Clancy Paul Manning Geraint Thomas Bradley Wiggins | 3:55.202 | Q, WR |
| 2 | 1 | Denmark | Casper Jørgensen Jens-Erik Madsen Michael Mørkøv Alex Rasmussen | 3:56.831 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | New Zealand | Sam Bewley Marc Ryan Hayden Roulston Jesse Sergent | 3:57.536 | q |
| 4 | 2 | Australia | Jack Bobridge Graeme Brown Mark Jamieson Bradley McGee | 3:58.633 | q |
| 5 | 1 | France | Damien Gaudin Mathieu Ladagnous Christophe Riblon Nicolas Rousseau | DSQ | |
| 6 | 2 | Netherlands | Levi Heimans Robert Slippens Wim Stroetinga Jens Mouris | LAP | |
| 7 | 3 | Spain | Sergi Escobar Asier Maeztu David Muntaner Antonio Miguel Parra | LAP | |
| 8 | 4 | Russia | Evgeny Kovalev Alexei Markov Alexander Petrovskiy Alexander Serov | LAP | |

#### Medal round
##### Bronze medal match

| Rank | Country | Cyclists | Result | Notes |
| | New Zealand | Sam Bewley Marc Ryan Hayden Roulston Jesse Sergent | 3:57.776 | |
| 4 | Australia | Jack Bobridge Graeme Brown Mark Jamieson Bradley McGee | 3:59.006 | |

##### Gold medal match

| Rank | Country | Cyclists | Result | Notes |
| | Great Britain | Ed Clancy Paul Manning Geraint Thomas Bradley Wiggins | 3:53.314 | WR |
| | Denmark | Casper Jørgensen Jens-Erik Madsen Michael Mørkøv Alex Rasmussen | 4:00.040 | |