Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's individual pursuit


These are the official results of the Men's Individual Pursuit at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The races were held on Saturday, 16 September, and Sunday, 17 September 2000 at the Dunc Gray Velodromewith a race distance of 4 km.

Medalists

Records

World and Olympic records prior to the Games.
World Record4:11.114Chris BoardmanGBRManchester, Great Britain29 August 1996
Olympic Record4:19.699Andrea CollinelliITAAtlanta, USA24 July 1996

Qualifying round

16 September
The seventeen 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 four fastest times advanced, regardless of whether they won or lost their match.
RankNameNationTime
1Robert Bartko4:18.972
2Rob Hayles4:20.996
3Jens Lehmann4:21.350
4Brad McGee4:21.903
5Philippe Gaumont4:22.142
6Oleksandr Symonenko4:23.983
7Sergiy Matveyev4:25.380
8Walter Fernando Perez4:30.757
9Luke Roberts4:31.162
10Mariano Friedick4:31.241
11Vladimir Karpets4:31.342
12Christian Vande Velde4:31.528
13Alexey Markov4:31.589
14Gary Anderson4:32.304
15Franco Marvulli4:34.000
16Antonio Tauler4:34.415
17Vadim Kravchenko4:40.410

Semi-Finals

Held 16 September
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 fourth-fastest and the second-fastest faced the third. Winners advanced to the finals while losers met in the bronze medal match.
;Heat 1
Jens Lehmann 4:23.032
Rob Hayles 4:30.080

;Heat 2
Robert Bartko 4:21.067
Brad McGee 4:22.644

Finals

Held 17 September
;Gold Medal
Robert Bartko 4:18.515
Jens Lehmann 4:23.824

;Bronze Medal
Brad McGee 4:19.250
Rob Hayles 4:19.613