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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 ...
The cyclists are also timed, for comparison with other competitors. Men race for 4 kilometres (2.5 mi); women race for 3 kilometres (1.9 mi). At the Olympics beginning in 2012, individual pursuit is competed only as part of the omnium event. [1] Team pursuit works similarly to individual pursuit. Two teams – each with three or four cyclists ...
This is an overview of the progression of the Olympic track cycling record of the men's 4000 m team pursuit, as recognised by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). [1] The men's team pursuit was introduced at the 1908 Summer Olympics and with the 4000 m distance at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Strangely the UCI list the first Olympic record as ...
The sprint or match sprint is a track cycling event involving between two and four riders, though it is usually run as a one-on-one match race between opponents who, unlike in the individual pursuit, start next to each other. Men's sprint has been an Olympic event at every games except 1904 (which had races at seven different distances) and ...
Defending Olympic men's figure skating champion Russian Evgeni Plushenko was obviously bitter about losing the gold in Vancouver to American Evan Lysacek, despite completing a quad jump, which ...
Olympic Games: Izu, Japan [21] 4000 m individual pursuit (progression) 4:24.060 Anna Morris Great Britain 22 February 2025 British Championships: Manchester, UK [22] 4000m team pursuit (progression) 4:04.242 Franziska Brauße Lisa Brennauer Lisa Klein Mieke Kröger Germany 3 August 2021 Olympic Games: Izu, Japan [23] Hour record (progression ...
MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France (AP) — Olympic road race champion Kristen Faulkner will go for her second gold medal of the Paris Games with U.S. teammates Chloe Dygert, Jennifer Valente and ...
Aug 7, 2024; Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France; Lily Williams of Team United States celebrates winning the gold medal in women’s team pursuit during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at ...