Two teams of three riders start on opposite sides of the track and each team member leads for one lap. The race finishes when the third rider crosses the line. In Individual pursuit, riders start on opposite sides of the track, the aim to catch the other rider up, or to record the fastest time over the 4km, for men, of 3km, for women. Riders are held for 50 seconds before the starting signal sounds. The team pursuit, raced over 4km and only open to men, involves four men per nation.
Teams start racing on opposite sides of the track.
The time trial, as its name suggests, is a race against the clock, as opposed to another rider. Men race four laps, or 1,000m, and women race 500m. Riders are held in starting bloocks for 90 seconds before the starting signal is sounded. The point of the points race is to score points. Riders do so by being among the first four to cross the line every 10 laps of a race that is 160 laps long, or 40km, for men, and 100 laps long, or 35km, for women.