Cycling at the
1980 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Individual road racemen
Team time trialmen
Track cycling
Track time trialmen
Individual pursuitmen
Team pursuitmen
Sprintmen

The men's team pursuit event at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place on 25 and 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 (British cyclist)		  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 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
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 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2  East Germany 4:19.67 55.453 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

References

  1. ^ "Cycling at the 1980 Summer Games: Men's team pursuit". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  2. ^ The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 Volume 3 (PDF). p. 205. Retrieved 17 March 2015.