2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team pursuit

Men's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Venue	Lee Valley VeloPark, London
Date	2–3 March
Competitors	68 from 14 nations
Teams	14
Winning time	3:52.727
Medalists
Sam Welsford Michael Hepburn Callum Scotson Miles Scotson Alexander Porter Luke Davison    Australia   Jonathan Dibben Ed Clancy Owain Doull Bradley Wiggins Steven Burke Andy Tennant    Great Britain   Lasse Norman Hansen Niklas Larsen Frederik Madsen Casper von Folsach Rasmus Quaade    Denmark

The Men's team pursuit event of the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 2 and 3 March 2016.^[1][2] Australia beat Great Britain in the final to win gold.

The qualifying was started on 2 March 2016 at 13:00.^[3]

Rank	Athletes	Nation	Time	Behind	Notes
1	Jonathan Dibben Steven Burke Owain Doull Bradley Wiggins	Great Britain	3:55.664		Q
2	Sam Welsford Michael Hepburn Alexander Porter Miles Scotson	Australia	3:55.867	+0.203	Q
3	Aaron Gate Pieter Bulling Dylan Kennett Nicholas Kergozou	New Zealand	3:57.050	+1.386	Q
4	Elia Viviani Liam Bertazzo Simone Consonni Francesco Lamon	Italy	3:57.800	+2.136	Q
5	Lasse Norman Hansen Frederik Madsen Rasmus Quaade Casper von Folsach	Denmark	3:59.196	+3.532	Q
6	Leif Lampater Nils Schomber Kersten Thiele Domenic Weinstein	Germany	4:00.127	+4.463	Q
7	Sergei Shilov Dmitri Sokolov Dmitrii Strakhov Kirill Sveshnikov	Russia	4:00.812	+5.148	Q
8	Dion Beukeboom Roy Eefting Wim Stroetinga Jan-Willem van Schip	Netherlands	4:01.847	+6.163	Q
9	Olivier Beer Silvan Dillier Frank Pasche Théry Schir	Switzerland	4:02.066	+6.402
10	Fan Yang Liu Hao Qin Chenlu Shen Pingan	China	4:03.900	+8.236
11	Benjamin Thomas Thomas Denis Julien Duval Florian Maitre	France	4:05.102	+9.438
12	Adam Jamieson Sean MacKinnon Rémi Pelletier-Roy Ed Veal	Canada	4:05.641	+9.977
13	Julio Amores Xavier Cañellas Vicente García de Mateos Illart Zuazubiskar	Spain	4:09.909	+14.245
14	Vitaliy Hryniv Roman Gladysh Vladyslav Kreminskyi Taras Shevchuk	Ukraine	4:13.977	+18.313

The winners of the first two heats advanced to the final. After that, the results were used to determine the placement rounds. It was started on 3 March 2016 at 15:34.^[4]

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Behind
1 vs 4
1	Steven Burke Owain Doull Andy Tennant Bradley Wiggins	Great Britain	3:54.267
2	Liam Bertazzo Simone Consonni Francesco Lamon Michele Scartezzini	Italy	3:58.902	+4.635
2 vs 3
1	Sam Welsford Luke Davison Michael Hepburn Miles Scotson	Australia	3:54.029
2	Aaron Gate Pieter Bulling Dylan Kennett Marc Ryan	New Zealand	4:00.280	+6.251
5 vs 8
1	Lasse Norman Hansen Niklas Larsen Frederik Madsen Casper von Folsach	Denmark	3:54.940
2	Dion Beukeboom Roy Eefting Wim Stroetinga Jan-Willem van Schip	Netherlands	4:01.651	+6.711
6 vs 7
1	Alexander Serov Sergei Shilov Dmitri Sokolov Kirill Sveshnikov	Russia	3:59.921
2	Theo Reinhardt Nils Schomber Kersten Thiele Domenic Weinstein	Germany	4:00.032	+0.111

The finals were started on 3 March 2016 at 21:45.^[5]

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Behind
Gold medal race
	Sam Welsford Michael Hepburn Callum Scotson Miles Scotson	Australia	3:52.727
	Jonathan Dibben Ed Clancy Owain Doull Bradley Wiggins	Great Britain	3:53.856	+1.129
Bronze medal race
	Lasse Norman Hansen Niklas Larsen Frederik Madsen Casper von Folsach	Denmark	3:55.936
4	Elia Viviani Liam Bertazzo Simone Consonni Filippo Ganna	Italy	3:58.262	+2.326
Fifth place race
5	Alexander Serov Sergei Shilov Dmitri Sokolov Kirill Sveshnikov	Russia	3:59.833
6	Leif Lampater Theo Reinhardt Nils Schomber Kersten Thiele	Germany	4:01.725	+1.912
Seventh place race
7	Aaron Gate Pieter Bulling Dylan Kennett Nicholas Kergozou	New Zealand	3:55.875
8	Roy Eefting Wim Stroetinga Joost van der Burg Jan-Willem van Schip	Netherlands	4:03.486	+7.611