Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit

Cycling - Men's team pursuit at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Moscow Olympic Velodrome
Dates	25 - 26 July
Competitors	53 from 13 nations
Medalists
Viktor Manakov Valery Movchan Vladimir Osokin Vitaly Petrakov Aleksandr Krasnov   Soviet Union   Gerald Mortag Uwe Unterwalder Matthias Wiegand Volker Winkler   East Germany   Teodor Černý Martin Penc Jiří Pokorný Igor Sláma   Czechoslovakia

Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Individual road race		men
Team time trial		men
Track cycling
Individual pursuit		men
Team pursuit		men
Sprint		men
Individual time trial		men

The men's team pursuit event at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place on 25–26 July 1980 in Moscow Olympic Velodrome.^[1][2]

Results

Qualifying

Rank	Cyclists	Land	Time	Speed (km/h)	Qualified
1	Aleksandr Krasnov Viktor Manakov Valery Movchan Vitaly Petrakov	Soviet Union	4:16,62	56.1147	Q
2	Gerald Mortag Uwe Unterwalder Matthias Wiegand Volker Winkler	East Germany	4:18,24	55,7627	Q
3	Pierangelo Bincoletto Guido Bontempi Ivano Maffei Silvestro Milani	Italy	4:18,85	55,6317	Q
4	Teodor Černý Martin Penc Jiří Pokorný Igor Sláma	Czechoslovakia	4:19,56	55,4787	Q
5	Sean Yates Tony Doyle Malcolm Elliott Glen Mitchell	Great Britain	4:19,73	55:4227	Q
6	Alain Bondue Philippe Chevalier Pascal Poisson Jean-Marc Rebière	France	4:20,52	55,2747	Q
7	Robert Dill-Bundi Urs Freuler Hans Känel Hans Ledermann	Switzerland	4:20,56	55,2667	Q
8	Colin Fitzgerald Kevin Nichols Gary Sutton Kelvin Poole	Australia	4:21,76	55,0127	Q
9	Marek Kulesza Andrzej Michalak Janusz Sałach Zbigniew Woźnicki	Poland	4:28,38	53,6557
10	Jan Blomme Diederik Foubert Jozef Simons Joseph Smeets	Belgium	4:29,75	53,383
11	Hans Fischer José Carlos de Lima Fernando Louro Antônio Silvestre	Brazil	4:32,34	52,875
12	Ervin Dér Csaba Pálinkás Zsigmond Sarkadi Nagy Gábor Szűcs	Hungary	4:36,32	52,113
13	Esteban Espinosa Jhon Jarrín Edwin Mena Juan Palacios	Ecuador	4:50,83	49,513

Quarter finals

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Qualified
1	Czechoslovakia	4:18,48	55,710	Q
2	Great Britain	4:23,45	54,659

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Qualified
1	Italy	4:18,27	55,756	Q
2	France	4:18,58	55,689

Heat 3

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Qualified
1	East Germany	4:17,43	55,937	Q
2	Switzerland	4:23,56	54,636

Heat 4

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Qualified
1	Soviet Union	4:14,64	56,550	Q
2	Australia	4:22,02	54,958

Semi finals

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Qualified
1	East Germany	4:18,16	55,779	Q
2	Italy	4:20,13	55,357

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Qualified
1	Soviet Union	4:26,52	54,030	Q
2	Czechoslovakia	4:32,68	52,809

Finals

Bronze medal race

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Place
1	Czechoslovakia	4:10,01		03 !
2	Italy	4:11,63	REL	4

Gold medal race

Rank	Nation	Time	Speed (km/h)	Place
1	Soviet Union	4:15,70	56,316	01 !
2	East Germany	4:19,67	55,453	02 !

References