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The start (top) and the race (bottom) of a women's team pursuit with three riders at the 2012 Summer Olympics. (Pictured: Ellen van Dijk , Amy Pieters and Vera Koedooder ) The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit , except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the ...
A team pursuit race involves two teams of four cyclists. Each team starts at opposite sides of the track. There are two ways to win: finish 16 laps (4 km) before the other team does or catch the other team. The time for each team is determined by the third cyclist to cross the finish line; the fourth cyclist does not need to finish.
In Nordic combined, the pursuit is determined by how well the competitors or team do in the ski jumping part of the competition. This is part of the Gundersen method developed in the 1980s. For the 15 km individual and 7.5 km sprint competitions, the computation is a 1-point advantage at the ski jump equals a 4-second advantage at the start of ...
4:00.589 +11.830: Q 9 Poland Alan Banaszek Konrad Waliniak Filip Prokopyszyn Adam Wożniak: 4:01.006 +12.247: 10 Spain Erik Martorell Joan Martí Bennassar Beñat Garaiar Álvaro Navas: 4:01.705 +12.946: 11 Italy Davide Boscaro Renato Favero Francesco Lamon Manlio Moro: 4:02.072 +13.313
A team pursuit race involves two teams of four cyclists. Each team starts at opposite sides of the track. There are two ways to win: finish 16 laps (4 km) before the other team does or catch the other team. The time for each team is determined by the third cyclist to cross the finish line; the fourth cyclist does not need to finish.
The United States has medaled in team pursuit in all four Olympics in which it has been on the program. The Americans advanced to the gold-medal final with a time of 4:04.629, beating Great ...
Williams, 30, a former running star at Chiles High and one of four cyclist on the American women's pursuit team, helped the United States soar to an early lead on New Zealand and then held on for ...
The women's 3000m team pursuit discipline for 3 riders was introduced by the UCI at the 2007–08 track cycling season. After the 2012–13 track cycling season the UCI changed the discipline into a 4000 m team pursuit with 4 riders.