The men's individual pursuit event in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics consisted of matches between two cyclists. The riders would start at opposite ends of the track. Each had 16 laps (4 kilometres) in which to catch the other cyclist. If neither was caught before one had gone 16 laps, the times for the distance were used to determine the victor. In the thirteen matches of the 2004 event, no cyclist was lapped.

Medalists Gold Silver Bronze

Records World Record Christopher Boardman (GBR) Manchester, United Kingdom 4:11.114 29 August 1996 Olympic Record Robert Bartko (GER) Sydney, Australia 4:18.515 17 September 2000

Results

Qualifying round 20 August, 16:30

The sixteen riders raced against each other in matches of two. Qualification for the next round was not based on who won those matches, however. The cyclists with the eight fastest times advanced, regardless of whether they won or lost their match.

Heat Name Time Rank 1 4:29.676 14 4:39.302 15 2 4:22.392 9 4:29.005 13 3 4:27.871 12 DNS — 4 4:18.169 Q 5 4:26.760 11 5 4:20.606 Q 8 4:25.520 10 6 4:15.165 Q 1 4:19.353 Q 7 7 4:17.930 Q 4 4:18.991 Q 6 8 4:16.862 Q 2 4:17.510 Q 3

Match round In the first round of actual match competition, cyclists were seeded into matches based on their times from the qualifying round. The fastest cyclist faced the eighth-fastest, the second-fastest faced the third, and so forth. Winners advanced to the finals while losers in each match received a final ranking based on their time in the round.

Heat 1 4:19.559 Q (3rd) 4:22.720 (7th)

Heat 2 4:17.978 Q (2nd) 4:26.184 (8th)

Heat 3 4:19.581 Q (4th) 4:20.336 (5th)

Heat 4 4:17.215 Q (1st) 4:21.235 (6th)

Medal round Cyclists were again re-seeded, this time based on their times in the match round. The third- and fourth-fastest riders faced off in the bronze medal match, while the fastest two riders competed for the gold and silver medals.

Bronze medal match 4:17.947 4:22.291

Gold medal match In a reversal of the 2002 Commonwealth Games final, where McGee had caught Wiggins before the end, the Brit took the title to make up for the disappointment of his teammate losing the bronze medal match. 4:16.304 4:20.436

Final classification The final results were

Did not start:

References

External links Official Olympic Report