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 and, if possible, catch the other team. For the qualifying round, the eight fastest times overall 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.

Results

Qualifying round

RankCyclistsNationTimeNotes
1align=left| |Norbert Dürpisch
Thomas Huschke
Uwe Unterwalder
Matthias Wiegand
4:23.67
2Aleksandr Perov
Viktor Sokolov
Vitaly Petrakov
Vladimir Osokin
4:24.11
3Gregor Braun
Günther Schumacher
Hans Lutz
Peter Vonhof
4:24.32
4Ian Hallam
Ian Banbury
Michael Bennett
Robin Croker
4:26.22
5Jan Jankiewicz
Czesław Lang
Krzysztof Sujka
Zbigniew Szczepkowski
4:27.21
6Zdeněk Dohnal
Michal Klasa
Petr Kocek
Jiří Pokorný
4:27.43
7Sandro Callari
Cesare Cipollini
Rino De Candido
Giuseppe Saronni
4:30.47
8Gerrit Möhlmann
Gerrie Slot
Herman Ponsteen
Peter Nieuwenhuis
4:30.90
9Paul Bonno
Jean-Marcel Brouzes
Jean-Jacques Rebière
Pierre Trentin
4:31.06
10Leonard Nitz
Paul Deem
Ralph Therrio
Ron Skarin
4:31.25
11Adrian Prosser
Hugh Walton
Jocelyn Lovell
Ron Hayman
4:31.90
12Geoff Skaines
John Thorsen
Kevin Nichols
Stephen Goodall
4:33.32
13Ivar Jakobsen
Kim Refshammer
Bjarne Sørensen
Kim Svendsen
4:34.27
14Yoichi Machishima
Tadashi Ogasawara
Yoshiaki Ogasawara
Tsutomu Okabori
4:37.03
15Carlos Mesa
Jhon Quiceno
Jorge Hernández
José Jaime Galeano
4:42.65
16Miguel Margalef
Víctor González
Waldemar Pedrazzi
Washington Díaz
4:47.82
Osvaldo Benvenuti
Osvaldo Frosasco
Juan Haedo
Raul Labbate

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1

RankCyclistsNationTimeNotes
1Ian Hallam
Ian Banbury
Michael Bennett
Robin Croker
4:23.78
2Jan Jankiewicz
Czesław Lang
Krzysztof Sujka
Zbigniew Szczepkowski
4:27.21

Quarterfinal 2

RankCyclistsNationTimeNotes
1Gregor Braun
Günther Schumacher
Hans Lutz
Peter Vonhof
4:20.10
2Zdeněk Dohnal
Michal Klasa
Petr Kocek
Jiří Pokorný
4:30.11

Quarterfinal 3

RankCyclistsNationTimeNotes
1Aleksandr Perov
Viktor Sokolov
Vitaly Petrakov
Vladimir Osokin
4:21.31
2Sandro Callari
Cesare Cipollini
Rino De Candido
Giuseppe Saronni
Overtaken

Quarterfinal 4

RankCyclistsNationTimeNotes
1align=left| |Norbert Dürpisch
Thomas Huschke
Uwe Unterwalder
Matthias Wiegand
4:22.69
2Gerrit Möhlmann
Gerrie Slot
Herman Ponsteen
Peter Nieuwenhuis
4:30.39

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

RankCyclistsNationTimeNotes
1Aleksandr Perov
Viktor Sokolov
Vitaly Petrakov
Vladimir Osokin
4:20.95
2align=left| |Norbert Dürpisch
Thomas Huschke
Uwe Unterwalder
Matthias Wiegand
4:25.23

Semifinal 2

RankCyclistsNationTimeNotes
1Gregor Braun
Günther Schumacher
Hans Lutz
Peter Vonhof
4:23.04
2Ian Hallam
Ian Banbury
Michael Bennett
Robin Croker
4:28.04

Finals

Bronze medal match

RankCyclistsNationTime
Ian Hallam
Ian Banbury
Michael Bennett
Robin Croker
4:22.41
4align=left| |Norbert Dürpisch
Thomas Huschke
Uwe Unterwalder
Matthias Wiegand
4:22.75

Final

RankCyclistsNationTime
Gregor Braun
Günther Schumacher
Hans Lutz
Peter Vonhof
4:21.06
Aleksandr Perov
Viktor Sokolov
Vitaly Petrakov
Vladimir Osokin
4:27.15

Final classification