Men's Olympic 4,000 Meter Team Pursuit Track Race Results

Team pursuit is raced on a banked velodrome by two teams of four riders who begin from a standing start on opposite sides of the track. They chase each other, and if a catch is made, the race is over. If not, the full 4,000 meters are raced and the team ahead is declared the winner.

In Olympic pursuiting, the first qualifying round is done as a normal pursuit race, but the teams are racing for time, the teams with the best times progressing to the next round. From then on, the competitions are run as standard pursuits, the winner advancing.

The times are decided by the third rider across the line.

Unlike individual pursuiting, which is no longer an Olympic event, team pursuiting survived the 2009 reorganization of Olympic cycling events.

Year/City	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1908, London	Great Britain Leonard Meredith Benjamin Jones Ernest Payne Charles Kingsbury	Germany Hermann Martens Bruno Goetze Karl Neumer Richard Katzer	Canada William Morton Walter Andrews Frederick McCarthy William Anderson
1920, Antwerp	Italy 5 min 14.2 sec Franco Giorgetti Ruggero Ferrario Arnaldo Carli Primo Magnani	Great Britain Albert White Thomas Johnson William Stewart Cyril Alden	South Africa James Walker William Smith Henry Kaltenbrun Harry Goosen
1924, Paris	Italy 5 min 15.0 sec Alfredo Dinale Francesco Zicchetti Angelo De Martino Aleardo Menegazzi	Poland Jozef Lange Jan Lazarsky Tomasz Stankiewicz Franciszek Szymczyk	Belgium Leonard Daghelinckx Henri Hoevenaers Fernand Saive Jean Van Den Bosch
1928, Amsterdam	Italy 5 min 1.8 sec Luigi Taselli Giacomo Gaioni Cesare Facciani Mario Lusiani	Holland Adriaan Braspennix Jacobus Maas Johannes Pijnenburg Piet Van Der Horst	Great Britain George Southall Frank Wild Leornard Wild Percy Wild
1932, Los Angeles	Italy 4 min 53.0 sec Marco Cimatti Paolo Pedretti Alberto Ghilardi Nino Borsari	France Amedee Fournier Rene Le Greves Henri Mouillefarine Paul Chocque	Great Britain Ernest Johnson William Harvell Frank William Southall Charles Holland
1936, Berlin	France 4 min 48.0 sec Robert Charpentier Jean Goujon Guy Lapebie Robert Le Nizerhy	Italy Bianco Bianchi Mario Gentili Armando Latini Severino Rigoni	Great Britain Harry Hill Ernest Johnson Charles King Ernest Mills
1948, London	France 4 min 57.8 sec Pierre Adam Serge Blusson Charles Coste Ferdinand Decanali	Italy Arnaldo Benfenati Guido Bernadri Anselmo Citterio Rino Pucci	Great Britain Alan Geldard Thomas Godwin David Ricketts Wilfred Waters
1952, Helsinki	Italy 4 min 46.61 sec Marino Morettini Geuido Massina Mino De Rossi Loris Campana	South Africa Thomas Shardelow Alfred Swift Robert Fowler George Eastman	Great Britain Ronald Stretton Alan Newton George Newberry Donald Burgess
1956, Melbourne	Italy 4 min 37.4 sec Leandro Faggin Valentino Gasparella Antonio Dominicali Franco Gandini	France Rene Bianchi Jean Graczyk Jean-Claude Lecante Michel Vermeulin	Great Britain Tommy Simpson Donald Burgess John Geddes Michael Gambrill
1960, Rome	Italy 4 min 30.90 sec Luigi Arienti Franco Testa Mario Vallotto Marino Vigna	Germany (unified team) Siegfried Kohler Peter Groning Manfred Klieme Bernd Barleben	Soviet Union Arnold Belgardt Stanislaw Moskvin Leonid Kolumbet Viktor Romanov
1964, Tokyo	Germany (unified team) 4 min 35.67 sec Lothar Claesges Karl Link Karl-Heinz Henrichs Erns Strong	Italy Vincenzo Mantovani Carlo Rancati Luigi Roncaglia Franco Testa	Holland Gerard-Hendrik Koel Jacob Oudkerk Handrik Cormelissen Cornelius Schuuring
1968, Mexico City	Denmark 4 min 22.44 sec Per Pedersen Lyngemark Mogens Frey Jensen Reno Bent Olsen Gunnar Rasmussen	West Germany Karl-Heinz Henrichs Karl Link Jurgen Kissner Udo Hempel	Italy Lorenzo Bosisio Cipriano Chemello Luigi Roncaglia Giorgio Morbisto
1972, Munich	West Germany 4 min 22.14 sec Jurgen Colombo Gunther Haritz Udo Hempel Gunter Schumacher	East Germany Thomas Huschke Hainz Richter Herbert Richter Uwe Unterwalder	Great Britain Michael Bennett Ian Hallam Ronald Keeble William Moore
1976, Montreal	West Germany 4 min 21.06 sec Gregor Braun Han Lutz Gunter Schumacher Peter Vonhof	Soviet Union Vladimir Osokin Hans Lutz Gunther Schumacher Peter Vonhof	Great Britain Ian Banbury Michael Bennett Robin Croker Ian Hallam
1980, Moscow	Soviet Union 4 min 15.70sec Viktor Manakov Valeri Movschan Wladimir Osokin Vitali Petrakov	East Germany Gerald Mortag Uwe Unterwalder Matthias Wiegand Volker Winkler	Czechoslovakia Teodor Cerny Martin Penc Jiri Pokorny Igor Slama
1984, Los Angeles	Australia 4 min 25.99sec Michael Grenda Kevin Nichols Michael Turtur Dean Woods	USA Dave Grylls Steve Hegg Patrick McDonough Leornard Nitz	West Germany Reinhard Alber Rolf Golz Roland Gunther Michael Marx
1988, Seoul	Soviet Union 4 min 13.31sec Viatcheslav Ekimov Arturas Kasputis Dmitri Nelyubin Gintautas Umaras	East Germany Steffen Blochwitz Ronald Hennig Dirk Meir Carsten Wolf	Australia Brett Dutton Wayne McCarner Stephen McGlede Dean Woods
1992, Barcelona	Germany 4 min 8.79sec Michael Glockner Jens Lehmann Guido Fulst Stefan Steinweg	Australia Brett Aitken Stephen McGlede Shaun O'Brien Stuart O'Grady	Denmark Jan Bo Pedersen Ken Frost Jimmi Madsen Klaus Kynde Nilsen
1996, Atlanta	France 4 min 5.93sec Christophe Capelle Philippe Ermenault Jean-Michael Monin Francis Moreau	Russia Eduard Gritsun Nikolai Kusnetzov Alexei Markov Anton Chantyr	Australia Brett Aitken Bradley McGee Stuart O'Grady Dean Woods
2000, Sidney	Germany 3 min 59.71sec Daniel Becke Guido Fulst Jens Lehmann Robert Bartko	Ukraine Oleksander Fedenko Oleksander Symonenko Serhiy Matveyev Serguy Chernyavskyy	Great Britain Paul Manning Chris Newton Bryan Steel Brandley Wiggins
2004, Athens	Australia 3min 58.233sec. Bradley McGee Graeme Brown Brett Lancaster Luke Roberts	Great Britain 4min 1.760sec Steve Cummings Rob Hayles Paul Manning Bradley Wiggins	Spain 4min 5.523sec Carlos Castano Sergi Escobar Asier Maeztu Carlos Torrent
2008, Beijing	Great Britain 3min 53.314sec Ed Clancy Paul Manning Geraint Thomas Bradley Wiggins	Denmark 4min 0.40sec Michael Morkov Casper Jorgensen Jens-Erik Madsen Alex Rasmussen	New Zealand 3min 57.776sec Sam Bewley Hayden Roulston Marc Ryan Jesse Sergent
2012, London	Great Britain 3min 51.659sec Edward Clancy Gerant Thomas Steven Burke Peter Kennaugh	Australia 3min 54.581sec Jack Bobridge Glenn O'Shea Rohan Dennis Michael Hepburn	New Zealand 3min 55.952sec Sam Bewley Marc Ryan Jesse Sergent Aaron Gate