2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team pursuit

The Men's team pursuit competition at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 26 and 27 February 2020.^[1][2]

Men's team pursuit at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Danish world champions (from left): Lasse Norman Hansen, Julius Johansen, Frederik Rodenberg, and Rasmus Pedersen
Venue	Velodrom
Location	Berlin, Germany
Dates	26–27 February
Competitors	57 from 13 nations
Teams	13
Winning time	3:44.672
Medalists
Lasse Norman Hansen Julius Johansen Frederik Rodenberg Rasmus Pedersen    Denmark   Campbell Stewart Corbin Strong Aaron Gate Jordan Kerby Regan Gough    New Zealand   Simone Consonni Filippo Ganna Francesco Lamon Jonathan Milan Michele Scartezzini    Italy
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Results

Qualifying

The qualifying was started on 26 February at 14:21.^[3] The eight fastest teams advanced to the first round.

Rank	Nation	Time	Behind	Notes
1	Denmark Lasse Norman Hansen Julius Johansen Frederik Rodenberg Rasmus Pedersen	3:46.579		Q, WR
2	New Zealand Campbell Stewart Aaron Gate Regan Gough Jordan Kerby	3:48.742	+2.163	Q
3	France Benjamin Thomas Thomas Denis Corentin Ermenault Valentin Tabellion	3:49.558	+2.979	Q
4	Italy Michele Scartezzini Simone Consonni Filippo Ganna Francesco Lamon	3:49.995	+3.416	Q
5	Australia Leigh Howard Luke Plapp Alexander Porter Sam Welsford	3:50.015	+3.436	q
6	Germany Felix Groß Theo Reinhardt Nils Schomber Domenic Weinstein	3:50.304	+3.725	q
7	Great Britain Ed Clancy Ethan Hayter Charlie Tanfield Oliver Wood	3:50.341	+3.762	q
8	Switzerland Cyrille Thièry Stefan Bissegger Robin Froidevaux Claudio Imhof	3:52.888	+6.309	q
9	Japan Ryo Chikatani Shunsuke Imamura Kazushige Kuboki Keitaro Sawada	3:52.956	+6.377
10	Russia Nikita Bersenev Lev Gonov Ivan Smirnov Kirill Sveshnikov	3:53.523	+6.944
11	Canada Derek Gee Michael Foley Adam Jamieson Jay Lamoureux	3:54.469	+7.890
12	Belarus Raman Tsishkou Yauheni Akhramenka Yauheni Karaliok Hardzei Tsishchanka	4:00.955	+14.376
13	Ukraine Volodymyr Dzhus Vitaliy Hryniv Roman Gladysh Maksym Vasyliev	4:04.735	+18.156

First round

The first round was started on 26 February at 20:48.^[4]

First round heats were held as follows:
Heat 1: 6th v 7th fastest
Heat 2: 5th v 8th fastest
Heat 3: 2nd v 3rd fastest
Heat 4: 1st v 4th fastest

The winners of heats three and four advanced to the gold medal race. The remaining six teams were ranked on time, from which the top two proceeded to the bronze medal race.

Rank	Heat	Nation	Time	Behind	Notes
1	1	Great Britain Ed Clancy Ethan Hayter Charlie Tanfield Oliver Wood	3:51.561
2	1	Germany Felix Groß Theo Reinhardt Leon Rohde Domenic Weinstein	3:53.577	+2.016
1	2	Australia Luke Plapp Alexander Porter Cameron Scott Sam Welsford	3:48.625		QB
2	2	Switzerland Stefan Bissegger Robin Froidevaux Claudio Imhof Lukas Rüegg	3:51.665	+3.040
1	3	New Zealand Campbell Stewart Aaron Gate Regan Gough Jordan Kerby	3:47.501		QG
2	3	France Benjamin Thomas Thomas Denis Corentin Ermenault Valentin Tabellion	3:54.124	+6.623
1	4	Denmark Lasse Norman Hansen Julius Johansen Frederik Rodenberg Rasmus Pedersen	3:46.203		QG, WR
2	4	Italy Simone Consonni Filippo Ganna Francesco Lamon Jonathan Milan	3:46.513	+0.310	QB

• QG = qualified for gold medal final
• QB = qualified for bronze medal final

Finals

Silver medal winners from New Zealand (from left): Campbell Stewart, Aaron Gate, Corbin Strong, Jordan Kerby, and Regan Gough (replaced in final by Strong)

The finals were started at 19:25.^[5]

Rank	Nation	Time	Behind	Notes
Gold medal race
	Denmark Lasse Norman Hansen Julius Johansen Frederik Rodenberg Rasmus Pedersen	3:44.672		WR
	New Zealand Campbell Stewart Corbin Strong Aaron Gate Jordan Kerby	3:49.713	+5.041
Bronze medal race
	Italy Simone Consonni Filippo Ganna Francesco Lamon Jonathan Milan	3:47.511
4	Australia Leigh Howard Luke Plapp Alexander Porter Sam Welsford	OVL