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These are the official results of the Men's Individual Pursuit at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The races were held on Saturday, 16 September, and Sunday, 17 September 2000 at the Dunc Gray Velodromewith a race distance of 4 km.[1]

Medalists

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Gold Gold Silver Silver Bronze Bronze
Robert Bartko,  Germany Jens Lehmann,  Germany Brad McGee,  Australia

Records

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World and Olympic records prior to the Games.

World Record 4:11.114 Chris Boardman GBR Manchester, Great Britain 29 August 1996
Olympic Record 4:19.699 Andrea Collinelli ITA Atlanta, USA 24 July 1996

Qualifying round

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16 September

The seventeen riders raced against each other in matches of two. Qualification for the next round was not based on who won those matches, however. The cyclists with the four fastest times advanced, regardless of whether they won or lost their match.

Rank Name Nation Time
1 Robert Bartko  Germany 4:18.972
2 Rob Hayles  Great Britain 4:20.996
3 Jens Lehmann  Germany 4:21.350
4 Brad McGee  Australia 4:21.903
5 Philippe Gaumont  France 4:22.142
6 Oleksandr Symonenko  Ukraine 4:23.983
7 Sergiy Matveyev  Ukraine 4:25.380
8 Walter Fernando Perez  Argentina 4:30.757
9 Luke Roberts  Australia 4:31.162
10 Mariano Friedick  United States 4:31.241
11 Vladimir Karpets  Russia 4:31.342
12 Christian Vande Velde  United States 4:31.528
13 Alexey Markov  Russia 4:31.589
14 Gary Anderson  New Zealand 4:32.304
15 Franco Marvulli  Switzerland 4:34.000
16 Antonio Tauler  Spain 4:34.415
17 Vadim Kravchenko  Kazakhstan 4:40.410

Semi-finals

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Held 16 September

In the first round of actual match competition, cyclists were seeded into matches based on their times from the qualifying round. The fastest cyclist faced the fourth-fastest and the second-fastest faced the third. Winners advanced to the finals while losers met in the bronze-medal match.

Heat 1
Jens Lehmann  Germany 4:23.032 (3rd)
Rob Hayles  Great Britain 4:30.080 (2nd)
Heat 2
Robert Bartko  Germany 4:21.067 (1st)
Brad McGee  Australia 4:22.644 (4th)

Finals

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Held 17 September

Gold Medal
Robert Bartko  Germany 4:18.515
Jens Lehmann  Germany 4:23.824
Bronze Medal
Brad McGee  Australia 4:19.250
Rob Hayles  Great Britain 4:19.613

References

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  1. ^ "Cycling at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Individual Pursuit, 4,000 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
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