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28th Olympic Games - JO
Athens, Greece, August 14-28, 2004
Results Qualification First round Finals Track 101
August 22: Men's Team Pursuit qualification
Australia fastest
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The Australian track team has completed a remarkable sweep of the qualifying events this morning, with endurance riders Graeme Brown, Peter Dawson, Brett Lancaster and Stephen Wooldridge all crossing the line to post the fastest ride in the men's team pursuit shortly after Ryan Bayley and Anna Meares stormed to victory in the 200m sprint qualifiers. Significantly, the Australian quartet finished together, even though the time is recorded by the third rider to cross the line. It's fair to say there's some competition among the Australian endurance riders for spots on this squad.
The solid British squad of Steve Cummings, Paul Manning, Chris Newton and Bryan Steel was second-fastest, and the Olympic team pursuit is therefore shaping up to be a repeat of the Britain vs Australia show-down of the Melbourne world championships earlier this year.
Related story: Coach Ian McKenzie of Australia's track endurance squad on turning talent into champions
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- The Australian team pursuit shows perfect form in qualifying fastest.
- The lead riders of the British team pursuit, who qualified second.
Images by Rob Jones/www.canadiancyclist.com
- Team New Zealand were eliminated in qualifying
- Team France appear to be having too much fun
- From Russia with aero helpmets
- Germany is looking like a team again after the 2003 shenanigans
- Lithuania squeaked into the first round, qualifying eighth
- The Ukraine blue and yellow train
- The Netherlands qualified fifth
- Spain qualified third and look like a threat for the future
- Great Britain very focused on going after arch-rivals Australia
- Australia were all power, qualifying fastest
Results
1 Australia 1.04.587 (1) 2.03.573 (1) 3.02.629 (1) 4.00.613 (59.847km/h) Graeme Brown Peter Dawson Brett Lancaster Stephen Wooldridge 2 Great Britain 1.04.726 (4) 2.03.819 (2) 3.03.647 (2) 4.03.985 (59.020km/h) Steve Cummings Paul Manning Chris Newton Bryan Steel 3 Spain 1.05.142 (5) 2.04.139 (3) 3.03.662 (3) 4.04.421 (58.914km/h) Carlos Castano Sergi Escobar Asier Maeztu Carlos Torrent 4 Germany 1.04.691 (3) 2.04.597 (5) 3.04.876 (4) 4.05.823 (58.578km/h) Robert Bartko Guido Fulst Christian Lademann Leif Lampater 5 Netherlands 1.06.158 (9) 2.06.151 (7) 3.06.028 (6) 4.06.286 (58.468km/h) Levi Heimans Jens Mouris Peter Schep Jeroen Straathof 6 Ukraine 1.05.241 (6) 2.04.581 (4) 3.05.534 (5) 4.07.175 (58.258km/h) Volodymyr Dyudya Roman Kononenko Sergiy Matveyev Vitaliy Popkov 7 France 1.06.169 (10) 2.06.618 (9) 3.07.435 (9) 4.07.336 (58.220km/h) Matthieu Ladagnous Anthony Langella Jerome Neuville Fabien Sanchez 8 Lithuania 1.04.667 (2) 2.04.769 (6) 3.06.451 (7) 4.08.812 (57.875km/h) Linas Balciunas Aivaras Baranauskas Tomas Vaitkus Raimondas Vilcinskas 9 Russia 1.05.995 (8) 2.06.194 (8) 3.07.209 (8) 4.09.394 (57.739km/h) Vladislav Borisov Alexander Khatuntsev Alexei Markov Andrey Minashkin 10 New Zealand 1.05.615 (7) 2.06.875 (10) 3.08.619 (10) 4.10.820 (57.411km/h) Hayden Godfrey Peter Latham Matthew Randall Marc Ryan
