World Team Pursuit Championship (Los Angeles)
26-Mar-2005

Gold at last!
Courtesy of cyclingnews.com.

Great Britain finally got its world team pursuit title with a 4:05.619. The Dutch stayed within a half second for the first kilometer, but Britain pulled away in the remaining kilometers to seal the deal.

Australia was not about to make any mistakes in the evening session and immediately opened almost a two second advantage over the Kiwis. New Zealand clawed some of its disadvantage back but lost the bronze to the Aussies. A special "good on ya, mate" goes to Greg Henderson, who represented the Kiwis in the points race, scratch race (silver medal) and team pursuit and is slated to ride the Madison with team pursuit teammate Peter Latham.

Finals

Gold

1 Great Britain 1.05.508 (1) 2.05.202 (1) 3.05.088 (1) 4.05.619 (58.627km/h)
Steven Cummings
Robert Hayles
Paul Manning
Christopher Newton
2 Netherlands 1.05.998 (2) 2.06.782 (2) 3.07.558 (2) 4.09.971 (57.606km/h)
Levi Heimans
Jens Mouris
Peter Schep
Niki Terpstra

Bronze

1 Australia 1.05.377 (1) 2.05.733 (1) 3.06.582 (1) 4.07.717 (58.13km/h)
Matthew Goss
Ashley Hutchinson
Mark Jamieson
Stephen Wooldridge
2 New Zealand 1.07.264 (2) 2.07.994 (2) 3.08.159 (2) 4.08.661 (57.91km/h)
Jason Allen
Timothy Gudsell
Peter Latham
Marc Ryan

Qualifying

1 Great Britain 1.04.833 (1) 2.05.579 (1) 3.06.812 (1) 4.08.569 (57.931km/h)
Ed Clancy
Steven Cummings
Paul Manning
Christopher Newton
2 Netherlands 1.06.762 (6) 2.07.590 (4) 3.08.503 (4) 4.09.483 (57.719km/h)
Levi Heimans
Jens Mouris
Peter Schep
Niki Terpstra
3 Australia 1.05.941 (3) 2.07.477 (3) 3.08.185 (2) 4.10.072 (57.583km/h)
Matthew Goss
Ashley Hutchinson
Mark Jamieson
Stephen Wooldridge
4 New Zealand 1.08.563 (11) 2.09.492 (8) 3.10.028 (7) 4.10.698 (57.439km/h)
Jason Allen
Gregory Henderson
Peter Latham
Marc Ryan
5 Ukraine 1.07.112 (7) 2.08.050 (5) 3.09.269 (5) 4.12.079 (57.124km/h)
Volodymyr Dyudya
Roman Kononenko
Lyubomyr Polatayko
Volodymyr Zagorodny
6 Germany 1.04.948 (2) 2.06.429 (2) 3.08.466 (3) 4.12.200 (57.097km/h)
Robert Bartko
Robert Bengsch
Guido Fulst
Leif Lampater
7 France 1.06.210 (4) 2.08.287 (6) 3.10.325 (8) 4.12.265 (57.082km/h)
Andy Flickinger
Mathie Ladagnous
Christophe Riblon
Fabien Sanchez
8 Russia 1.07.172 (8) 2.08.289 (7) 3.09.790 (6) 4.12.290 (57.077km/h)
Mikhail Ignatiev
Serguei Klimov
Alexander Serov
Nikolai Troussov
9 Denmark 1.07.318 (9) 2.10.055 (9) 3.12.511 (9) 4.15.225 (56.420km/h)
Casper Jørgensen
Jens Erik Madsen
Mørkøv Michael
Alex Rasmussen
10 Kazakhstan 1.07.630 (10) 2.10.333 (10) 3.13.446 (10) 4.17.420 (55.939km/h)
Vladimir Bushanskiy
Alexey Kolessov
Alexey Lyalko
Yuriy Yuda
11 Italy 1.06.416 (5) 2.10.811 (11) 3.15.430 (11) 4.21.003 (55.171km/h)
Federico Bontorin
Francesco Giuliani
Martino Marcotto
Alessandro Mazzolani


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