February 26/20 10:42 am - Denmark Sets World Record in Men's Team Pursuit
Posted by Editoress on 02/26/20
Denmark smashed the world record in the men's Team Pursuit qualifying with a time of 3:46.579, 1.433 seconds ahead of the previous record. All four of the top qualifying teams rode under 3:50, pointing to the level of competition in the lead up to the Olympics. The Canadian squad of Michael Foley, Derek Gee, Adam Jamieson and Jay Lamoureux set a time of 3:54.469 to finish 11th and did not qualify for the next round.
"It's definitely tough and disappointing for us," admitted Derek Gee. "It might of been our fastest ever qualifier; last year at Worlds we did this time in the first round and it got us through to the bronze medal final. So the game has changed and we are going to have to find a way to adapt to that. We're improving, but not fast enough."
"It's unbelievable to see the gains that are being made across the sport; on the men's and women's sides times are getting faster and faster. So we just have to regroup after that ride and find a way to get our team there."
| Men's Team Pursuit | |
| Qualifying | |
| 1 Denmark (Lasse Norman Hansen/Julius Johansen/Frederik Rodenberg Madsen/ Rasmus Pedersen) |
3:46.579WR |
| 2 New Zealand (Campbell Stewart/Aaron Gate/Regan Gough/Jordan Kerby) | 3:48.742 |
| 3 France (Benjamin Thomas/Thomas Denis/Corentin Ermenault/Valentin Tabellion) | 3:49.558 |
| 4 Italy (Michele Scartezzini/Simone Consonni/Filippo Ganna/Francesco Lamon) | 3:49.995 |
| 5 Australia (Leigh Howard/Lucas Plapp/Alexander Porter/Sam Welsford) | 3:50.015 |
| 6 Germany (Felix Gross/Theo Reinhardt/Nils Schomber/Domenic Weinstein) | 3:50.304 |
| 7 Great Britain (Edward Clancy/Ethan Hayter/Charlie Tanfield/Oliver Wood) | 3:50.341 |
| 8 Switzerland (Cyrille Thiery/Stefan Bissegger/Robin Froidevaux/Claudio Imhof) | 3:52.888 |
| 9 Japan (Ryo Chikatani/Shunsuke Imamura/Kazushige Kuboki/Keitaro Sawada) | 3:52.956 |
| 10 Russian Federation (Nikita Bersenev/Lev Gonov/Ivan Smirnov/Kirill Sveshnikov) | 3:53.523 |
| 11 Canada (Derek Gee/Michael Foley/Adam Jamieson/Jay Lamoureux) | 3:54.469 |
| 12 Belarus (Raman Tsishkou/Yauheni Akhramenka/Yauheni Karaliok/ Hardzei Tsishchanka) |
4:00.955 |
| 13 Ukraine (Volodymyr Dzhus/Vitaliy Hryniv/Roman Gladysh/Maksym Vasyliev) | 4:04.735 |
| The eight teams recording the best times in the Qualifying Round will be matched in the First Round as follows: The 6th fastest team against the 7th fastest team. The 5th fastest team against the 8th fastest team. The 2nd fastest team against the 3rd fastest team. The fastest team against the 4th fastest team. |
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