2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit

Women's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Venue	Lee Valley VeloPark, London
Date	3–4 March
Competitors	56 from 13 nations
Teams	13
Winning time	4:16.802
Medalists
Sarah Hammer Kelly Catlin Chloé Dygert Jennifer Valente     Jasmin Glaesser Kirsti Lay Georgia Simmerling     Joanna Rowsell Shand    Great Britain
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The Women's team pursuit event of the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 3 and 4 March 2016.^[1][2] The United States beat Canada in the final to win the gold medal.

Results

Qualifying

The qualifying was started at 13:00.^[3]

Rank	Athletes	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Sarah Hammer Kelly Catlin Chloé Dygert Jennifer Valente	United States	4:16.180	Q
2	Jasmin Glaesser Kirsti Lay Georgia Simmerling	Canada	4:20.664	Q
3	Lauren Ellis Rushlee Buchanan Jaime Nielsen Racquel Sheath	New Zealand	4:20.673	Q
4	Annette Edmondson Georgia Baker Ashlee Ankudinoff Amy Cure	Australia	4:20.830	Q
5	Joanna Rowsell Shand	Great Britain	4:21.054	Q
6	Katarzyna Pawłowska Eugenia Bujak Edyta Jasińska Natalia Rutkowska	Poland	4:29.239	Q
7	Simona Frapporti Tatiana Guderzo Francesca Pattaro Silvia Valsecchi	Italy	4:29.857	Q
8	Huang Dongyan Jing Yali Ma Menglu Zhao Baofang	China	4:29.941	Q
9	Caroline Ryan Lydia Boylan Josie Knight Melanie Späth	Ireland	4:32.127
10	Stephanie Pohl Charlotte Becker Mieke Kröger Gudrun Stock	Germany	4:32.398
11	Polina Pivovarova Marina Shmayankova	Belarus	4:32.952
12	Evgenia Romanyuta	Russia	4:35.521
13	Sakura Tsukagoshi Minami Uwano Yumi Kajihara Kisato Nakamura	Japan	4:38.394

First round

The winners of the first two heats advanced to the final. After that, the results were used to determine the placement rounds. It was held at 15:20.^[4]

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Behind
1 vs 4
1	Sarah Hammer Kelly Catlin Chloé Dygert Jennifer Valente	United States	4:14.806
2	Annette Edmondson Georgia Baker Ashlee Ankudinoff Amy Cure	Australia	4:18.559	+3.753
2 vs 3
1	Jasmin Glaesser Kirsti Lay Georgia Simmerling	Canada	4:18.261
2	Lauren Ellis Rushlee Buchanan Jaime Nielsen Racquel Sheath	New Zealand	4:18.264	+0.003
5 vs 8
1	Joanna Rowsell Shand	Great Britain	4:16.350
2	Huang Dongyan Jing Yali Ma Menglu Zhao Baofang	China	4:27.762	+11.412
6 vs 7
1	Simona Frapporti Tatiana Guderzo Francesca Pattaro Silvia Valsecchi	Italy	4:26.162
2	Katarzyna Pawłowska Eugenia Bujak Edyta Jasińska Natalia Rutkowska	Poland	4:29.166	+3.004

Finals

The final were started at 19:05.^[5]

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Behind
Gold medal race
	Sarah Hammer Kelly Catlin Chloé Dygert Jennifer Valente	United States	4:16.802
	Jasmin Glaesser Kirsti Lay Georgia Simmerling	Canada	4:19.525	+2.723
Bronze medal race
	Joanna Rowsell Shand	Great Britain	4:16.540
4	Lauren Ellis Rushlee Buchanan Jaime Nielsen Racquel Sheath	New Zealand	4:20.225	+3.685
Fifth place race
5	Georgia Baker Ashlee Ankudinoff Amy Cure Rebecca Wiasak	Australia
6	Beatrice Bartelloni Tatiana Guderzo Francesca Pattaro Silvia Valsecchi	Italy	OVL
Seventh place race
7	Katarzyna Pawłowska Edyta Jasińska Justyna Kaczkowska Daria Pikulik	Poland	4:27.165
8	Huang Dongyan Jing Yali Ma Menglu Zhao Baofang	China	4:27.508	+0.343

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