Cycling at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit

These are the official results of the Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, held on 23 and 24 July 1976. There were 64 participant from 16 nations. In the first round each team raced alone, with the first eight teams qualifying for the quarterfinals.

Competition format

The team pursuit competition consisted of a qualifying round and a 3-round knockout tournament, including a bronze medal race. Each race, in both the qualifying round and the knock-out rounds, consisted of two teams of 4 cyclists each starting from opposite sides of the track. The teams raced for 4,000 metres, attempting to finish with the fastest time (measured by the third rider) and, if possible, catch the other team. For the qualifying round, the eight fastest times overall (regardless of whether the team finished first or second in its heat, though any team that was overtaken was eliminated) earned advancement to the knockout rounds. In the knockout rounds, the winner of each heat advanced to the next round. Teams could change members between rounds.Official Report, vol. 3, pp. 195–197.

Results

Qualifying round

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes 1 Norbert DürpischThomas HuschkeUwe UnterwalderMatthias Wiegand 4:23.67 2 Aleksandr PerovViktor SokolovVitaly PetrakovVladimir Osokin 4:24.11 3 Gregor BraunGünther SchumacherHans LutzPeter Vonhof 4:24.32 4 Ian HallamIan BanburyMichael BennettRobin Croker 4:26.22 5 Jan JankiewiczCzesław LangKrzysztof SujkaZbigniew Szczepkowski 4:27.21 6 Zdeněk DohnalMichal KlasaPetr KocekJiří Pokorný 4:27.43 7 Sandro CallariCesare CipolliniRino De CandidoGiuseppe Saronni 4:30.47 8 Gerrit MöhlmannGerrie SlotHerman PonsteenPeter Nieuwenhuis 4:30.90 9 Paul BonnoJean-Marcel BrouzesJean-Jacques RebièrePierre Trentin 4:31.06 10 Leonard NitzPaul DeemRalph TherrioRon Skarin 4:31.25 11 Adrian ProsserHugh WaltonJocelyn LovellRon Hayman 4:31.90 12 Geoff SkainesJohn ThorsenKevin NicholsStephen Goodall 4:33.32 13 Ivar JakobsenKim RefshammerBjarne SørensenKim Svendsen 4:34.27 14 Yoichi MachishimaTadashi OgasawaraYoshiaki OgasawaraTsutomu Okabori 4:37.03 15 Carlos MesaJhon QuicenoJorge HernándezJosé Jaime Galeano 4:42.65 16 Miguel MargalefVíctor GonzálezWaldemar PedrazziWashington Díaz 4:47.82 – Osvaldo BenvenutiOsvaldo FrosascoJuan Carlos HaedoRaul Labbate

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes 1 Ian HallamIan BanburyMichael BennettRobin Croker 4:23.78 2 Jan JankiewiczCzesław LangKrzysztof SujkaZbigniew Szczepkowski 4:27.21

Quarterfinal 2

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes 1 Gregor BraunGünther SchumacherHans LutzPeter Vonhof 4:20.10 2 Zdeněk DohnalMichal KlasaPetr KocekJiří Pokorný 4:30.11

Quarterfinal 3

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes 1 Aleksandr PerovViktor SokolovVitaly PetrakovVladimir Osokin 4:21.31 2 Sandro CallariCesare CipolliniRino De CandidoGiuseppe Saronni Overtaken

Quarterfinal 4

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes 1 Norbert DürpischThomas HuschkeUwe UnterwalderMatthias Wiegand 4:22.69 2 Gerrit MöhlmannGerrie SlotHerman PonsteenPeter Nieuwenhuis 4:30.39

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes 1 Aleksandr PerovViktor SokolovVitaly PetrakovVladimir Osokin 4:20.95 2 |Norbert DürpischThomas HuschkeUwe UnterwalderMatthias Wiegand 4:25.23

Semifinal 2

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes 1 Gregor BraunGünther SchumacherHans LutzPeter Vonhof 4:23.04 2 Ian HallamIan BanburyMichael BennettRobin Croker 4:28.04

Finals

Bronze medal match

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Ian HallamIan BanburyMichael BennettRobin Croker 4:22.41 4 Norbert DürpischThomas HuschkeUwe UnterwalderMatthias Wiegand 4:22.75

Final

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Gregor BraunGünther SchumacherHans LutzPeter Vonhof 4:21.06 Aleksandr PerovViktor SokolovVitaly PetrakovVladimir Osokin 4:27.15

Final classification RANK NAME CYCLISTS TEAMGregor BraunGünther SchumacherHans LutzPeter VonhofAleksandr PerovViktor SokolovVitaly PetrakovVladimir OsokinIan HallamIan BanburyMichael BennettRobin Croker4.Norbert DürpischThomas HuschkeUwe UnterwalderMatthias Wiegand5.Zdeněk DohnalMichal KlasaPetr KocekJiří PokornýGerrit MöhlmannGerrie SlotHerman PonsteenPeter NieuwenhuisSandro CallariCesare CipolliniRino De CandidoGiuseppe SaronniJan JankiewiczCzesław LangKrzysztof SujkaZbigniew Szczepkowski9.Paul BonnoJean-Marcel BrouzesJean-Jacques RebièrePierre Trentin10.Leonard NitzPaul DeemRalph TherrioRon Skarin11.Adrian ProsserHugh WaltonJocelyn LovellRon Hayman12.Geoff SkainesJohn ThorsenKevin NicholsStephen Goodall13.Ivar JakobsenKim RefshammerBjarne SørensenKim Svendsen14.Yoichi MachishimaTadashi OgasawaraYoshiaki OgasawaraTsutomu Okabori15.Carlos MesaJhon QuicenoJorge HernándezJosé Jaime Galeano16.Miguel MargalefVíctor GonzálezWaldemar PedrazziWashington Díaz

References

External links Official Report