2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit

The Women's team pursuit event of the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 3 and 4 March 2016. The United States beat Canada in the final to win the gold medal.

Women's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Venue	Lee Valley VeloPark, London
Date	3–4 March
Competitors	56 from 13 nations
Teams	13
Winning time	4:16.802
Medalists
Sarah Hammer Kelly Catlin Chloé Dygert Jennifer Valente   United States   Allison Beveridge Jasmin Glaesser Kirsti Lay Georgia Simmerling   Canada   Laura Trott Elinor Barker Ciara Horne Joanna Rowsell Shand   Great Britain

Results

Qualifying

The qualifying was started at 13:00.

Rank	Athletes	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Sarah Hammer Kelly Catlin Chloé Dygert Jennifer Valente	United States	4:16.180	Q
2	Allison Beveridge Jasmin Glaesser Kirsti Lay Georgia Simmerling	Canada	4:20.664	Q
3	Lauren Ellis Rushlee Buchanan Jaime Nielsen Racquel Sheath	New Zealand	4:20.673	Q
4	Annette Edmondson Georgia Baker Ashlee Ankudinoff Amy Cure	Australia	4:20.830	Q
5	Laura Trott Elinor Barker Ciara Horne Joanna Rowsell Shand	Great Britain	4:21.054	Q
6	Katarzyna Pawłowska Eugenia Bujak Edyta Jasińska Natalia Rutkowska	Poland	4:29.239	Q
7	Simona Frapporti Tatiana Guderzo Francesca Pattaro Silvia Valsecchi	Italy	4:29.857	Q
8	Huang Dongyan Jing Yali Ma Menglu Zhao Baofang	China	4:29.941	Q
9	Caroline Ryan Lydia Boylan Josie Knight Melanie Späth	Ireland	4:32.127
10	Stephanie Pohl Charlotte Becker Mieke Kröger Gudrun Stock	Germany	4:32.398
11	Ina Savenka Katsiaryna Piatrouskaya Polina Pivovarova Marina Shmayankova	Belarus	4:32.952
12	Tamara Balabolina Gulnaz Badykova Anastasia Chulkova Evgenia Romanyuta	Russia	4:35.521
13	Sakura Tsukagoshi Minami Uwano Yumi Kajihara Kisato Nakamura	Japan	4:38.394

First round

The winners of the first two heats advanced to the final. After that, the results were used to determine the placement rounds. It was held at 15:20.

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Behind
1 vs 4
1	Sarah Hammer Kelly Catlin Chloé Dygert Jennifer Valente	United States	4:14.806
2	Annette Edmondson Georgia Baker Ashlee Ankudinoff Amy Cure	Australia	4:18.559	+3.753
2 vs 3
1	Allison Beveridge Jasmin Glaesser Kirsti Lay Georgia Simmerling	Canada	4:18.261
2	Lauren Ellis Rushlee Buchanan Jaime Nielsen Racquel Sheath	New Zealand	4:18.264	+0.003
5 vs 8
1	Laura Trott Elinor Barker Ciara Horne Joanna Rowsell Shand	Great Britain	4:16.350
2	Huang Dongyan Jing Yali Ma Menglu Zhao Baofang	China	4:27.762	+11.412
6 vs 7
1	Simona Frapporti Tatiana Guderzo Francesca Pattaro Silvia Valsecchi	Italy	4:26.162
2	Katarzyna Pawłowska Eugenia Bujak Edyta Jasińska Natalia Rutkowska	Poland	4:29.166	+3.004

Finals

The final were started at 19:05.

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Behind
Gold medal race
	Sarah Hammer Kelly Catlin Chloé Dygert Jennifer Valente	United States	4:16.802
	Allison Beveridge Jasmin Glaesser Kirsti Lay Georgia Simmerling	Canada	4:19.525	+2.723
Bronze medal race
	Laura Trott Elinor Barker Ciara Horne Joanna Rowsell Shand	Great Britain	4:16.540
4	Lauren Ellis Rushlee Buchanan Jaime Nielsen Racquel Sheath	New Zealand	4:20.225	+3.685
Fifth place race
5	Georgia Baker Ashlee Ankudinoff Amy Cure Rebecca Wiasak	Australia
6	Beatrice Bartelloni Tatiana Guderzo Francesca Pattaro Silvia Valsecchi	Italy	OVL
Seventh place race
7	Katarzyna Pawłowska Edyta Jasińska Justyna Kaczkowska Daria Pikulik	Poland	4:27.165
8	Huang Dongyan Jing Yali Ma Menglu Zhao Baofang	China	4:27.508	+0.343