Total Destruction

GB beat Spain to claim gold in the Team Pursuit final.

Spain again omitted Escobar, who has been concentrating on the individual events and it was GB who rapidly went into the lead. A 65 second first kilometre set the scene and once into their stride they began to reel off sub one minute kilometres and at the half distance GB had a 1.7 second lead.

The crowd noise was amazing and it clearly inspired the riders who just seemed to be floating along. The Spanish began to feel the pressure and started to crumble, losing a man at three quarters distance, whilst GB just got quicker and quicker.

With a couple of laps to go, it looked like the Spaniards would just avoid getting caught, but GB re-doubled their efforts and caught their rivals right on the line, recording an absolutely excellent 4m 03.508s in the process.

Qualifying

1 Great Britain 4:07.168 (58.260 km/h)
Steven Cummings
Robert Hayles
Paul Manning
Christopher Newton
2 Spain 4:12.077 (57.125 km/h)
Carlos Castano Panadero
Carlos Torrent Tarres
Gillermo Ferrer Garcia
Asier Maeztu
3 Germany 4:12.890 (56.942 km/h)
Christian Bach
Robert Bengsch
Henning Bommel
Leif Lampater
4 Netherlands 4:13.892 (56.717 km/h)
Levi Heimans
Wim Stroetinga
Niki Terpstra
Sipke Zijlstra
5 Russia 4:16.093 (56.230 km/h)
Mikhail Ignatiev
Sergey Klimov
Alexander Serov
Nikolay Trousov
6 Denmark 4:16.131 (56.221 km/h)
Alex Rasmussen
Casper Jørgensen
Jens Erik Madsen
Michael Mørkøv
7 New Zealand 4:18.067 (55.799 km/h)
Jason Allen
Richard Bowker
Anthony Chapman
Matthew Haydock
8 Ukraine 4:20.724 (55.231 km/h)
Lyubomyr Polatayko
Volodymyr Rybin
Alexandre Symonenko
Vasyl Yakovlev
9 Kazakhstan 4:21.526 (55.061 km/h)
Vladimir Bushanskiy
Yuriy Yuda
Alexey Kolessov
Alexey Lyalko
10 Italy 4:23.769 (54.593 km/h)
Alessandro Bernardini
Claudio Cucinotta
Claudio Masnata
Alessandro Mazzolani

Finals

For 3rd & 4th

3 Germany 4:09.327 (57.755 km/h)
Christian Bach
Robert Bengsch
Henning Bommel
Leif Lampater

4 Netherlands 4:14.272 (56.632 km/h)
Levi Heimans
Wim Stroetinga
Niki Terpstra
Sipke Zijlstra

For 1st & 2nd

1 Great Britain 4:03.033 (59.251 km/h)
Steven Cummings
Robert Hayles
Paul Manning
Christopher Newton

2 Spain 4:10.915 (57.390 km/h)
Carlos Castano Panadero
Carlos Torrent Tarres
Gillermo Ferrer Garcia
Asier Maeztu