2019 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit

The Women's team pursuit competition at the 2019 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 27 and 28 February 2019.

Women's team pursuit at the 2019 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Venue	BGŻ Arena
Location	Pruszków, Poland
Dates	27–28 February
Competitors	71 from 17 nations
Teams	17
Winning time	4:14.333
Medalists
Annette Edmondson Ashlee Ankudinoff Georgia Baker Amy Cure Alexandra Manly   Australia   Laura Kenny Katie Archibald Elinor Barker Ellie Dickinson   Great Britain   Kirstie James Holly Edmondston Bryony Botha Michaela Drummond Rushlee Buchanan   New Zealand

Results

Qualifying

The qualifying was started on 27 February at 13:00. The eight fastest teams advanced to the first round.

Rank	Nation	Time	Behind	Notes
1	Australia Annette Edmondson Ashlee Ankudinoff Georgia Baker Amy Cure	4:14.915		Q
2	Great Britain Laura Kenny Katie Archibald Elinor Barker Ellie Dickinson	4:15.618	+0.703	Q
3	New Zealand Rushlee Buchanan Bryony Botha Holly Edmondston Kirstie James	4:19.065	+4.150	Q
4	Italy Letizia Paternoster Martina Alzini Elisa Balsamo Vittoria Guazzini	4:20.065	+5.150	Q
5	Canada Allison Beveridge Ariane Bonhomme Annie Foreman-Mackey Georgia Simmerling	4:20.650	+5.735	q
6	Germany Charlotte Becker Franziska Brauße Lisa Brennauer Lisa Klein	4:24.568	+9.653	q
7	United States Jennifer Valente Christina Birch Kimberly Geist Emma White	4:25.384	+10.469	q
8	Belgium Lotte Kopecky Shari Bossuyt Jolien D'Hoore Annelies Dom	4:25.825	+10.910	q
9	France Coralie Demay Marion Borras Clara Copponi Pascale Jeuland	4:27.560	+12.645
10	Ireland Mia Griffin Kelly Murphy Alice Sharpe Orla Walsh	4:29.148	+14.233
11	Japan Yumi Kajihara Kie Furuyama Kisato Nakamura Miho Yoshikawa	4:30.76	+15.845
12	Belarus Ina Savenka Polina Pivovarova Aksana Salauyeva Hanna Tserakh	4:31.329	+16.414
13	Poland Daria Pikulik Nikol Płosaj Justyna Kaczkowska Łucja Pietrzak	4:32.420	+17.505
14	South Korea Kim Hyun-ji Kim You-ri Lee Ju-mi Na Ah-reum	4:33.074	+18.159
15	China Wang Xiaofei Huang Zhilin Liu Jiali Ma Menglu	4:33.634	+18.719
16	Russia Aleksandra Goncharova Anastasia Chursina Tamara Dronova Daria Malkova	4:33.919	+19.004
17	Ukraine Hanna Solovey Oksana Kliachina Tetyana Klimchenko Anna Nahirna	4:36.683	+21.768

First round

The first round was started on 28 February at 18:30.

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 proceeded 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	Germany Gudrun Stock Franziska Brauße Lisa Brennauer Lisa Klein	4:21.252
2	1	United States Jennifer Valente Christina Birch Kimberly Geist Emma White	4:23.721	+2.469
1	2	Canada Allison Beveridge Ariane Bonhomme Annie Foreman-Mackey Georgia Simmerling	4:17.577		QB
2	2	Belgium Lotte Kopecky Shari Bossuyt Jolien D'Hoore Annelies Dom	4:23.953	+6.376
1	3	Great Britain Laura Kenny Katie Archibald Elinor Barker Ellie Dickinson	4:14.067		QG
2	3	New Zealand Rushlee Buchanan Bryony Botha Holly Edmondston Kirstie James	4:17.980	+3.913	QB
1	4	Australia Alexandra Manly Ashlee Ankudinoff Georgia Baker Amy Cure	4:13.913		QG
2	4	Italy Letizia Paternoster Martina Alzini Elisa Balsamo Vittoria Guazzini	4:18.528	+4.615

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

Finals

The finals were started on 28 February at 20:48.

Rank	Nation	Time	Behind	Notes
Gold medal race
	Australia Annette Edmondson Ashlee Ankudinoff Georgia Baker Amy Cure	4:14.333
	Great Britain Laura Kenny Katie Archibald Elinor Barker Ellie Dickinson	4:14.537	+0.204
Bronze medal race
	New Zealand Michaela Drummond Bryony Botha Holly Edmondston Kirstie James	4:16.479
4	Canada Allison Beveridge Ariane Bonhomme Annie Foreman-Mackey Georgia Simmerling	4:20.321	+3.842