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.[1]

Medalists

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  Gold   Silver   Bronze
Robert Bartko,   Germany Jens Lehmann,   Germany Brad McGee,   Australia

Records

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World and Olympic records prior to the Games.

World Record 4:11.114 Chris Boardman GBR Manchester, Great Britain 29 August 1996
Olympic Record 4:19.699 Andrea Collinelli ITA Atlanta, USA 24 July 1996

Qualifying round

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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.

Rank Name Nation Time
1 Robert Bartko   Germany 4:18.972
2 Rob Hayles   Great Britain 4:20.996
3 Jens Lehmann   Germany 4:21.350
4 Brad McGee   Australia 4:21.903
5 Philippe Gaumont   France 4:22.142
6 Oleksandr Symonenko   Ukraine 4:23.983
7 Sergiy Matveyev   Ukraine 4:25.380
8 Walter Fernando Perez   Argentina 4:30.757
9 Luke Roberts   Australia 4:31.162
10 Mariano Friedick   United States 4:31.241
11 Vladimir Karpets   Russia 4:31.342
12 Christian Vande Velde   United States 4:31.528
13 Alexey Markov   Russia 4:31.589
14 Gary Anderson   New Zealand 4:32.304
15 Franco Marvulli   Switzerland 4:34.000
16 Antonio Tauler   Spain 4:34.415
17 Vadim Kravchenko   Kazakhstan 4:40.410

Semi-finals

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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   Germany 4:23.032 (3rd)
Rob Hayles   Great Britain 4:30.080 (2nd)
Heat 2
Robert Bartko   Germany 4:21.067 (1st)
Brad McGee   Australia 4:22.644 (4th)

Finals

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Held 17 September

Gold Medal
Robert Bartko   Germany 4:18.515
Jens Lehmann   Germany 4:23.824
Bronze Medal
Brad McGee   Australia 4:19.250
Rob Hayles   Great Britain 4:19.613

References

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  1. ^ "Cycling at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Individual Pursuit, 4,000 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
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