2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team pursuit

Men's team pursuit at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Venue	Omnisport Apeldoorn
Location	Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Dates	28 February–1 March
Competitors	64 from 16 nations
Teams	16
Winning time	3:53.389
Medalists
Ed Clancy Kian Emadi Ethan Hayter Charlie Tanfield    Great Britain   Niklas Larsen Julius Johansen Frederik Madsen Casper von Folsach    Denmark   Simone Consonni Liam Bertazzo Filippo Ganna Francesco Lamon    Italy
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The Men's team pursuit competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 28 February and 1 March 2018.^[1][2]

Results[]

Qualifying[]

The eight fastest teams advance to the first round.^[3]

Rank	Nation	Time	Behind	Notes
1	Great Britain Ed Clancy Kian Emadi Ethan Hayter Charlie Tanfield	3:55.714		Q
2	Italy Simone Consonni Liam Bertazzo Filippo Ganna Francesco Lamon	3:56.406	+0.692	Q
3	Denmark Niklas Larsen Julius Johansen Frederik Madsen Casper von Folsach	3:56.740	+1.026	Q
4	Germany Maximilian Beyer Felix Groß Theo Reinhardt Kersten Thiele	3:57.447	+1.733	Q
5	New Zealand Campbell Stewart Regan Gough Dylan Kennett Nicholas Kergozou	3:57.622	+1.908	q
6	Russia Mamyr Stash Alexander Evtushenko Ivan Smirnov Kirill Sveshnikov	3:59.362	+3.648	q
7	Switzerland Claudio Imhof Cyrille Thièry Frank Pasche Valère Thiébaud	3:59.543	+3.829	q
8	Canada Michael Foley Derek Gee Adam Jamieson Jay Lamoureux	4:00.584	+4.870	q
9	Japan Ryo Chikatani Shogo Ichimaru Shunsuke Imamura Keitaro Sawada	4:01.753	+6.039
10	Poland Szymon Sajnok Alan Banaszek Szymon Krawczyk Adrian Tekliński	4:01.963	+6.249
11	France Benjamin Thomas Adrien Garel Florian Maitre Louis Pijourlet	4:02.415	+6.701
12	Belgium Lindsay De Vylder Kenny De Ketele Moreno De Pauw Robbe Ghys	4:03.367	+7.653
13	United States Eric Young Gavin Hoover Ashton Lambie Daniel Summerhill	4:04.203	+8.489
14	Belarus Raman Tsishkou Yauheni Akhramenka Yauheni Karaliok Mikhail Shemetau	4:06.629	+10.915
15	China Shen Pingan	4:08.266	+12.552
16	Spain Eloy Teruel Xavier Cañellas Vicente García de Mateos Illart Zuazubiskar	4:10.677	+14.963

First round[]

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 3 and 4 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.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	Denmark Niklas Larsen Julius Johansen Frederik Madsen Casper von Folsach	3:54.496	QG
2	3	Italy Simone Consonni Liam Bertazzo Filippo Ganna Francesco Lamon	3:54.884	QB
3	4	Great Britain Ed Clancy Kian Emadi Ethan Hayter Charlie Tanfield	3:56.335	QG
4	4	Germany Maximilian Beyer Felix Groß Theo Reinhardt Kersten Thiele	3:58.047	QB
5	2	New Zealand Campbell Stewart Regan Gough Dylan Kennett Nicholas Kergozou	3:58.932
6	1	Switzerland Claudio Imhof Cyrille Thièry Gaël Suter Valère Thiébaud	3:59.648
7	1	Russia Lev Gonov Alexander Evtushenko Ivan Smirnov Sergei Shilov	4:00.320
8	2	Canada Michael Foley Derek Gee Adam Jamieson Jay Lamoureux	4:02.235

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

Finals[]

The final was held at 19:23.^[5]

Rank	Nation	Time	Behind	Notes
Gold medal final
	Great Britain Ed Clancy Kian Emadi Ethan Hayter Charlie Tanfield	3:53.389
	Denmark Niklas Larsen Julius Johansen Frederik Madsen Casper von Folsach	3:55.232	+1.843
Bronze medal final
	Italy Simone Consonni Liam Bertazzo Filippo Ganna Francesco Lamon	3:54.606
4	Germany Nils Schomber Felix Groß Theo Reinhardt Kersten Thiele	3:56.594	1.988

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