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

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

Men's team pursuit at the 2019 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Venue	BGŻ Arena
Location	Pruszków, Poland
Dates	27–28 February
Competitors	78 from 18 nations
Teams	18
Winning time	3:48.012
Medalists
Sam Welsford Kelland O'Brien Leigh Howard Alexander Porter Cameron Scott   Australia   Ethan Hayter Ed Clancy Kian Emadi Charlie Tanfield Oliver Wood   Great Britain   Niklas Larsen Lasse Norman Hansen Rasmus Pedersen Casper von Folsach Julius Johansen   Denmark

Results

Qualifying

The qualifying was started on 27 February at 14:55. The eight fastest teams advanced to the first round.

Rank	Nation	Time	Behind	Notes
1	Australia Sam Welsford Kelland O'Brien Leigh Howard Cameron Scott	3:52.152		Q
2	Great Britain Ethan Hayter Ed Clancy Kian Emadi Oliver Wood	3:54.010	+1.858	Q
3	Denmark Lasse Norman Hansen Julius Johansen Rasmus Pedersen Casper von Folsach	3:54.141	+1.989	Q
4	New Zealand Campbell Stewart Thomas Sexton Aaron Gate Nicholas Kergozou	3:56.603	+4.451	Q
5	Canada Derek Gee Michael Foley Adam Jamieson Jay Lamoureux	3:56.914	+4.762	q
6	Germany Felix Groß Theo Reinhardt Leon Rohde Domenic Weinstein	3:57.276	+5.124	q
7	Switzerland Claudio Imhof Cyrille Thièry Stefan Bissegger Robin Froidevaux	3:57.834	+5.682	q
8	Poland Szymon Sajnok Adrian Kaiser Szymon Krawczyk Bartosz Rudyk	3:58.473	+6.321	q
9	Belgium Lindsay De Vylder Kenny De Ketele Robbe Ghys Fabio Van den Bossche	3:59.617	+7.465
10	United States Gavin Hoover Ashton Lambie Colby Lange Eric Young	4:00.590	+7.724
11	Italy Liam Bertazzo Filippo Ganna Francesco Lamon Davide Plebani	4:00.725	+8.438
12	Japan Ryo Chikatani Shogo Ichimaru Shunsuke Imamura Keitaro Sawada	4:02.008	+9.856
13	Belarus Raman Tsishkou Yauheni Akhramenka Yauheni Karaliok Mikhail Shemetau	4:02.303	+10.151
14	Russia Lev Gonov Dmitry Mukhomediarov Ivan Smirnov Gleb Syritsa	4:02.363	+10.211
15	South Korea Park Sang-hoon Im Jae-yeon Min Kyeong-ho Shin Don-gin	4:04.168	+12.016
16	France Benjamin Thomas Florian Maitre Bryan Coquard Aurélien Costeplane	4:05.792	+13.640
17	China Chen Zhiwen Guo Liang Shen Pingan Xu Zhaoliang	4:06.523	+14.371
18	Ukraine Vitaliy Hryniv Roman Gladysh Timur Malieiev Vladyslav Shcherban	4:08.125	+15.973

First round

The first round was started on 27 February at 20:27.

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 Felix Groß Theo Reinhardt Leon Rohde Domenic Weinstein	3:56.897
2	1	Switzerland Claudio Imhof Stefan Bissegger Robin Froidevaux Frank Pasche	3:59.108	+0.211
1	2	Canada Derek Gee Michael Foley Adam Jamieson Jay Lamoureux	3:54.670		QB
2	2	Poland Adrian Kaiser Szymon Krawczyk Bartosz Rudyk Daniel Staniszewski	4:00.711	+6.041
1	3	Great Britain Ethan Hayter Ed Clancy Kian Emadi Charlie Tanfield	3:51.635		QG
2	3	Denmark Niklas Larsen Lasse Norman Hansen Rasmus Pedersen Casper von Folsach	3:55.602	+3.977	QB
1	4	Australia Sam Welsford Kelland O'Brien Leigh Howard Alexander Porter	3:51.529		QG
2	4	New Zealand Thomas Sexton Aaron Gate Nicholas Kergozou Corbin Strong	4:05.861	+14.332

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

Finals

The finals were started at 19:23.

Rank	Nation	Time	Behind	Notes
Gold medal race
	Australia Sam Welsford Kelland O'Brien Leigh Howard Alexander Porter	3:48.012		WR
	Great Britain Ethan Hayter Ed Clancy Kian Emadi Charlie Tanfield	3:50.810	+2.798
Bronze medal race
	Denmark Niklas Larsen Lasse Norman Hansen Rasmus Pedersen Casper von Folsach	3:51.804
4	Canada Derek Gee Michael Foley Adam Jamieson Jay Lamoureux	3:56.382	+4.578