# Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's team pursuit

The women's cycling team pursuit at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held at the London Velopark on 3 and 4 August.
The Great Britain team consisting of Dani King, Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell won the gold medal in world record-breaking time. Including pre-Olympic races and the Olympic final itself, in the six times they had ridden together they had broken the world record in every race. Sarah Hammer, Dotsie Bausch and Jennie Reed of the United States took the silver medal and Canada's Tara Whitten, Gillian Carleton and Jasmin Glaesser won bronze.

## Competition format

The women's team pursuit race consists of a 3 km race between two teams of three 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.
The "first round" consisted of the four fastest qualifiers competing in head-to-head races (1st vs. 4th, 2nd vs. 3rd). The winners of these heats advanced to the gold medal final. The other four qualifiers also competed in the first round (5th vs. 8th, 6th vs. 7th). 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. Qualification races were also held to determine 5th/6th place (between the next two fastest first-round teams who had not reached either the gold or bronze finals) and 7th/8th place (among the remaining two first-round teams).

## Schedule

All times are British Summer Time
| Date | Time | Round |
| Friday 3 August 2012 | 17:00 | Qualification |
| Saturday 4 August 2012 | 16:10 | First round and finals |

## Results
### Qualification

| Rank | Country | Cyclists | Result | Notes |
| 1 | Great Britain | Dani King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell | 3:15.669 | Q, WR, OR |
| 2 | United States | Sarah Hammer Dotsie Bausch Jennie Reed | 3:19.406 | Q |
| 3 | Australia | Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic | 3:19.719 | Q |
| 4 | Canada | Tara Whitten Gillian Carleton Jasmin Glaesser | 3:19.816 | Q |
| 5 | New Zealand | Lauren Ellis Jaime Nielsen Alison Shanks | 3:20.421 | Q |
| 6 | Netherlands | Kirsten Wild Amy Pieters Ellen van Dijk | 3:21.602 | Q |
| 7 | Germany | Judith Arndt Charlotte Becker Lisa Brennauer | 3:22.058 | Q |
| 8 | Belarus | Tatsiana Sharakova Alena Dylko Aksana Papko | 3:22.850 | Q |
| 9 | Ukraine | Yelyzaveta Bochkaryova Svitlana Halyuk Lesya Kalytovska | 3:25.160 | |
| 10 | China | Jiang Fan Jiang Wenwen Liang Jing | 3:26.049 | |

### First round

| Rank | Heat | Country | Cyclists | Result | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Great Britain | Dani King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell | 3:14.682 | WR, OR |
| 2 | 3 | United States | Sarah Hammer Dotsie Bausch Jennie Reed | 3:16.853 | NR |
| 3 | 3 | Australia | Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic | 3:16.935 | OC |
| 4 | 4 | Canada | Tara Whitten Gillian Carleton Jasmin Glaesser | 3:17.454 | NR |
| 5 | 2 | New Zealand | Lauren Ellis Jaime Nielsen Alison Shanks | 3:18.514 | NR |
| 6 | 1 | Netherlands | Kirsten Wild Vera Koedooder Ellen van Dijk | 3:20.013 | NR |
| 7 | 1 | Germany | Judith Arndt Charlotte Becker Lisa Brennauer | 3:21.086 | |
| 8 | 2 | Belarus | Tatsiana Sharakova Alena Dylko Aksana Papko | 3:21.942 | |

### Finals
#### Final 7th–8th place

| Rank | Country | Cyclists | Result | Notes |
| 7 | Belarus | Tatsiana Sharakova Alena Dylko Aksana Papko | 3:20.245 | NR |
| 8 | Germany | Judith Arndt Charlotte Becker Lisa Brennauer | 3:20.824 | NR |

#### Final 5th–6th place

| Rank | Country | Cyclists | Result | Notes |
| 5 | New Zealand | Lauren Ellis Jaime Nielsen Alison Shanks | 3:19.351 | |
| 6 | Netherlands | Vera Koedooder Amy Pieters Ellen van Dijk | 3:23.256 | |

#### Final bronze medal

| Rank | Country | Cyclists | Result | Notes |
| | Canada | Tara Whitten Gillian Carleton Jasmin Glaesser | 3:17.915 | |
| 4 | Australia | Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic | 3:18.096 | |

#### Final gold medal

| Rank | Country | Cyclists | Result | Notes |
| | Great Britain | Dani King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell | 3:14.051 | WR, OR |
| | United States | Sarah Hammer Dotsie Bausch Lauren Tamayo | 3:19.727 | |

## Final classification

In the final classification are also the riders listed who competed during the qualification and the first round.
| Rank | Country | Cyclists |
| | Great Britain | Dani King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell |
| | United States | Sarah Hammer Dotsie Bausch Lauren Tamayo Jennie Reed |
| | Canada | Tara Whitten Gillian Carleton Jasmin Glaesser |
| 4 | Australia | Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic |
| 5 | New Zealand | Lauren Ellis Jaime Nielsen Alison Shanks |
| 6 | Netherlands | Ellen van Dijk Kirsten Wild Vera Koedooder Amy Pieters |
| 7 | Belarus | Tatsiana Sharakova Alena Dylko Aksana Papko |
| 8 | Germany | Judith Arndt Charlotte Becker Lisa Brennauer |
| 9 | Ukraine | Yelyzaveta Bochkaryova Svitlana Halyuk Lesya Kalytovska |
| 10 | China | Jiang Fan Jiang Wenwen Liang Jing |