Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit

These are the official results of the men's team pursuit at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, held from 2 to 4 September 1972. There were 90 participants from 22 nations.

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. 218–220.

Results

Qualifying round

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes 1 Jürgen ColomboGünter HaritzUdo HempelGünther Schumacher 4:23.54 2 Thomas HuschkeHeinz RichterHerbert RichterUwe Unterwalder 4:25.48 3 Viktor BykovVladimir KuznetsovAnatoly StepanenkoAleksandr Yudin 4:26.53 4 Ad DekkersGerard KamperHerman PonsteenRoy Schuiten 4:27.30 5 Michael BennettIan HallamRonald KeebleWilliam Moore 4:28.92 6 Paweł KaczorowskiJanusz KierzkowskiMieczysław NowickiJerzy Głowacki 4:29.00 7 Martin StegerXaver KurmannRené SavaryChristian Brunner 4:30.56 8 Nikifor Petrov MinchevPlamen TimchevDimo Angelov TonchevIvan Tsvetkov 4:31.43 9 Pietro AlgeriGiacomo BazzanGiorgio MorbiatoLuciano Borgognoni 4:31.64 10 Steele BishopDanny ClarkRemo SansonettiPhilip Sawyer 4:31.85 11 Zdeněk DohnalJiří MikšíkAnton TkáčMilan Zyka 4:33.39 12 Leon DaelemansRoger De BeukelaerAlex Van LindenWilfried Wesemael 4:34.26 13 Gunnar AsmussenSvend Erik BjergReno OlsenBent Pedersen 4:34.78 14 Paul BrydonNeil LysterJohn DeanBlair Stockwell 4:35.11 15 Bernard BocquetJacques BossisMichel ZucarelliJean-Jacques Fussien 4:35.48 16 Carlos Miguel ÁlvarezRaúl GómezRaúl HalketIsmael Torres 4:37.89 17 David ChaunerJohn Vande VeldeDavid MulicaJim Ochowicz 4:38.19 18 Gregorio Aldo ArencibiaRoberto HerederoRoberto MenéndezRaúl Marcelo Vázquez 4:44.43 19 Jocelyn LovellBrian KeastRon HaymanEd McRae 4:48.90 20 Pat GellineauClive SaneyAnthony SellierVernon Stauble 4:56.59 21 Radcliffe LawrenceHoward FentonMaurice Hugh-SamMichael Lecky 4:59.28 22 Khosro HaghgoshaMohamed KhodavandGholam Hossein KoohiBehrouz Rahbar 5:10.80

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes 1 Michael BennettIan HallamRonald KeebleWilliam Moore 4:25.23 2 Ad DekkersGerard KamperHerman PonsteenRoy Schuiten 4:26.11

Quarterfinal 2

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes 1 Bernard KręczyńskiPaweł KaczorowskiJanusz KierzkowskiMieczysław Nowicki 4:25.72 2 Viktor BykovVladimir KuznetsovAnatoly StepanenkoAleksandr Yudin 4:26.75

Quarterfinal 3

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes 1 Thomas HuschkeHeinz RichterHerbert RichterUwe Unterwalder 4:23.26 2 Martin StegerXaver KurmannRené SavaryChristian Brunner 4:26.44

Quarterfinal 4

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes 1 Jürgen ColomboGünter HaritzUdo HempelGünther Schumacher 4:24.49 2 Nikifor Petrov MinchevPlamen TimchevDimo Angelov TonchevIvan Tsvetkov 4:31.55

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes 1 Jürgen ColomboGünter HaritzGünther SchumacherPeter Vonhof – 2 Michael BennettIan HallamRonald KeebleWilliam Moore Overtaken

Semifinal 2

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Notes 1 Thomas HuschkeHeinz RichterHerbert RichterUwe Unterwalder 4:23.14 2 Bernard KręczyńskiPaweł KaczorowskiJanusz KierzkowskiMieczysław Nowicki 4:26.39

Finals

Bronze medal match

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Michael BennettIan HallamRonald KeebleWilliam Moore 4:23.78 4 Bernard KręczyńskiPaweł KaczorowskiJanusz KierzkowskiMieczysław Nowicki 4:26.06

Final

Rank Cyclists Nation Time Jürgen ColomboGünter HaritzUdo HempelGünther Schumacher 4:22.14 Thomas HuschkeHeinz RichterHerbert RichterUwe Unterwalder 4:25.25

Final classification Rank Name Nationality Jürgen ColomboGünter HaritzUdo HempelGünther SchumacherPeter Vonhof Thomas HuschkeHeinz RichterHerbert RichterUwe Unterwalder Michael BennettIan HallamRonald KeebleWilliam Moore 4 Bernard KręczyńskiPaweł KaczorowskiJanusz KierzkowskiMieczysław NowickiJerzy Głowacki 5 Nikifor Petrov MinchevPlamen TimchevDimo Angelov TonchevIvan Tsvetkov Ad DekkersGerard KamperHerman PonsteenRoy Schuiten Viktor BykovVladimir KuznetsovAnatoly StepanenkoAleksandr Yudin Martin StegerXaver KurmannRené SavaryChristian Brunner 9 Pietro AlgeriGiacomo BazzanGiorgio MorbiatoLuciano Borgognoni 10 Steele BishopDanny ClarkRemo SansonettiPhilip Sawyer 11 Zdeněk DohnalJiří MikšíkAnton TkáčMilan Zyka 12 Leon DaelemansRoger De BeukelaerAlex Van LindenWilfried Wesemael 13 Gunnar AsmussenSvend Erik BjergReno OlsenBent Pedersen 14 Paul BrydonNeil LysterJohn DeanBlair Stockwell 15 Bernard BocquetJacques BossisMichel ZucarelliJean-Jacques Fussien 16 Carlos Miguel ÁlvarezRaúl GómezRaúl HalketIsmael Torres 17 David ChaunerJohn Vande VeldeDavid MulicaJim Ochowicz 18 Gregorio Aldo ArencibiaRoberto HerederoRoberto MenéndezRaúl Marcelo Vázquez 19 Jocelyn LovellBrian KeastRon HaymanEd McRae 20 Pat GellineauClive SaneyAnthony SellierVernon Stauble 21 Radcliffe LawrenceHoward FentonMaurice Hugh-SamMichael Lecky 22 Khosro HaghgoshaMohamed KhodavandGholam Hossein KoohiBehrouz Rahbar

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