The Women's Team Pursuit was one of the 8 women's events at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Manchester, United Kingdom. 42 cyclists from 14 countries participated in the contest. After the qualification, the fastest two teams advanced to the final and the 3rd and 4th fastest raced for the bronze medal.[1]
The qualification took place on 28 March and the finals were held later the same day.[2]
World record edit
| World Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WR | time? | team? | location? | date? |
Qualifying edit
| Rank[1] | Name | Country | 1000m | 2000m | Time | Speed (km/h) |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000-2000 | 2000-3000 | ||||||
| 1 | Wendy Houvenaghel Rebecca Romero Joanna Rowsell |
 Great Britain |
1:11.910 (2) | 2:18.525 (1) | 3:25.725 | 52.497 | QF |
| 1:06.615 (1) | 1:07.200 (1) | ||||||
| 2 | Svitlana Galyuk Lesya Kalytovska Lyubov Shulika |
 Ukraine |
1:11.972 (4) | 2:18.733 (2) | 3:26.565 | 52.283 | QF |
| 1:06.761 (2) | 1:07.832 (2) | ||||||
| 3 | Charlotte Becker Verena Joos Alexandra Sontheimer |
 Germany |
1:11.640 (1) | 2:19.340 (3) | 3:28.511 | 51.795 | QB |
| 1:07.700 (3) | 1:09.171 (4) | ||||||
| 4 | Alena Amialiusik Aksana Papko Tatsiana Sharakova |
 Belarus |
1:11.970 (3) | 2:29.878 (7) | 3:30.893 | 51.458 | QB |
| 1:08.326 (4) | 1:09.582 (5) | ||||||
| 5 | Anastasia Chulkova Evgenia Romanyuta Elena Chalykh |
 Russia |
1:12.521 (5) | 2:21.479 (6) | 3:30.320 | 51.350 | |
| 1:08.958 (6) | 1:08.841 (3) | ||||||
| 6 | Marlijn Binnendijk Ellen van Dijk Elise van Hage |
 Netherlands |
1:12.713 (6) | 2:21.335 (5) | 3:31.596 | 51.040 | NR |
| 1:08.622 (5) | 1:10.261 (6) | ||||||
| 7 | Evelyn Arys Jessie Daams Jolien D'Hoore |
 Belgium |
1:14.339 (7) | 2:24.951 (7) | 3:35.594 | 50.094 | |
| 1:10.612 (7) | 1:10.643 (7) | ||||||
Finals edit
| Rank[3] | Name | Country | 1000m | 2000m | Time | Speed (km/h) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000-2000 | 2000-3000 | ||||||
| Gold Medal Race | |||||||
 |
Wendy Houvenaghel Rebecca Romero Joanna Rowsell |
Great Britain |
1:10.405 (2) | 2:16.084 (1) | 3:22.415 | 56.355 | |
| 1:05.679 (1) | 1:06.331 (1) | ||||||
 |
Svitlana Galyuk Lesya Kalytovska Lyubov Shulika |
Ukraine |
1:10.126 (1) | 2:16.985 (2) | 3:29.744 | 51.491 | |
| 1:06.589 (2) | 1:12.759 (2) | ||||||
| Bronze Medal Race | |||||||
 |
Charlotte Becker Verena Joos Alexandra Sontheimer |
Germany |
1:11.652 (1) | 2:18.907 (1) | 3:26.960 | 52.183 | |
| 1:07.255 (1) | 1:08.053 (1) | ||||||
| 4 | Alena Amialiusik Aksana Papko Tatsiana Sharakova |
Belarus |
1:11.887 (2) | 2:19.862 (2) | 3:29.449 | 51.563 | |
| 1:07.975 (2) | 1:09.587 (2) | ||||||
References edit
- ^ a b "UCI 2008 Track Cycling World Championships Women's Team Pursuit Qualification Official Results" (PDF). Tissot. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2012.
- ^ "UCI 2008 Track Cycling World Championships Programme" (PDF). UCI.
- ^ "UCI 2008 Track Cycling World Championships Women's Team Pursuit Finals Official Results" (PDF). Tissot. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2009.