These are the official results of the Men's Individual Pursuit at the 1992 Summer Olympics

1992 Summer Olympics

The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 1992. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same...

 in Barcelona, Spain. The races were held on Monday, July 27, and Wednesday, July 29, 1992 at the Velòdrom d'Horta

Velòdrom d'Horta

Velòdrom d'Horta is a velodrome in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain that was the track cycling venue for the 1992 Summer Olympics. It was also the venue for the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 1984....

with a race distance of 4 km.

Medalists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Chris Boardman Chris Boardman Christopher "Chris" Boardman MBE is a former English racing cyclist who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and broke the world hour record three times, as well as winning three stages and wearing the yellow jersey on three separate occasions at the Tour de France... ,	Jens Lehmann Jens Lehmann (cyclist) Jens Lehmann is a German professional cyclist and double Olympic champion. Despite his many successes , he will probably be remembered best as the person caught by Chris Boardman riding the revolutionary 'Lotus Superbike,... ,	Gary Anderson Gary Anderson (cyclist) Gary John Anderson is a former track and road cyclist from New Zealand who won an Olympic Bronze Medal. He finished third in the men's 4000m individual pursuit at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. Anderson also won a total of 8 medals at the Commonwealth Games... ,

Results

• Q Qualified for next round.
• q Qualified for classification round.
• ovtk Overtaken by opponent during heat.
• cap captured your opponent.
• DNS Did not start.
• WR New world record.

Qualifying round

Held, July 27


The thirty 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 sixteen fastest times advanced, regardless of whether they won or lost their match. Fastest eight times advanced to Group A quarter-finals. Places nine through sixteen advanced to Group B classification matches.

Pos.	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed	Qual.	Notes
1	Chris Boardman Chris Boardman Christopher "Chris" Boardman MBE is a former English racing cyclist who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and broke the world hour record three times, as well as winning three stages and wearing the yellow jersey on three separate occasions at the Tour de France...		4:27.357	53.860 km/h	Q	WR
2	Jens Lehmann Jens Lehmann (cyclist) Jens Lehmann is a German professional cyclist and double Olympic champion. Despite his many successes , he will probably be remembered best as the person caught by Chris Boardman riding the revolutionary 'Lotus Superbike,...		4:30.054	53.322 km/h	Q
3	Mark Kingsland		4:31.033	53.30 km/h	Q
4	Gary Anderson Gary Anderson Gary Allan Anderson is a former National Football League placekicker. He was the first NFL kicker to have a "perfect regular season," successfully making every field goal and every PAT during regular season play.-Early life:...		4:32.253	52.891 km/h	Q
5	Philippe Ermenault Philippe Ermenault Philippe Ermenault is a French former track cyclist. Ermenault was twice world champion in individual pursuit and Olympic champion as part of the France team in the team pursuit.-Results:- External links :...		4:33.892	52.575  km/h	Q
6	Carl Sundquist		4:34.390	52.480 km/h	Q
7	Oleksandr Honchenkov		4:35.057	52.352 km/h	Q
8	Jan Bo Petersen		4:35.904	52.192 km/h	Q
9	Cédric Mathy Cédric Mathy Cédric Mathy is a cyclist from Belgium.He competed for Belgium in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain in the points race event where he finished in third place.-References:*...		4:37.288	51.931 km/h	q
10	Ivan Beltrami		4:39.645	51.493 km/h	q
11	Robert Karśnicki		4:39.836	51.458 km/h	q
12	Servais Knaven Servais Knaven Henricus Theodorus Josephus Knaven is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer, currently a directeur sportif for Team Sky. Knaven won Paris–Roubaix in 2001 and is the second rider in history to start and finish the race 16 times...		4:40.436	51.348 km/h	q
13	Michal Baldrián		4:41.724	51.113 km/h	q
14	Adolfo Alperi		4:42.538	50.996 km/h	q
15	Michael Belcourt		4:43.135	50.859 km/h	q
16	Masamitsu Ehara		4:44.412	50.630 km/h	q
17	Viktor Kunz		4:45.539	50.430 km/h
18	Georgios Portelanos		4:46.345	50.288 km/h
19	Patrick Matt Patrick Matt Patrick Matt is a retired male track cyclist from Liechtenstein, who competed for his native country in two events at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. His best result there was finishing in 18th place in the Men's Individual Pursuit . Matt also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics...		4:46.982	50.117 km/h
20	Alberny Vargas		4:49.067	49.815 km/h
21	Tony Ledgard		4:49.626	49.719 km/h
22	Murugayan Kumaresan Murugayan Kumaresan Murugayan Kumaresan is a retired track cyclist from Malaysia, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 .-References:* *...		4:59.049	48.152 km/h
23	Weng Yu-Yi		5:00.519	47.917 km/h
24	Manuel García Manuel Garcia Manuel Garcia may refer to:*Manuel García , singer & voice pedagogue; son of Manuel García *Manuel García , Spanish singer and composer, father of Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García...		5:03.997	47.368 km/h
25	Mehrdad Afsharian Tarshiz		5:08.184	46.725 km/h
-	Hernán López		ovtk
-	Steffen Kjærgaard Steffen Kjærgaard Steffen Kjærgaard is a former Norwegian professional cyclist. Kjærgaard cycled for US Postal Service . He twice participated in the Tour de France, taking 89th place in 2000 and 101st place in 2001; in both years team captain Lance Armstrong won overall...		ovtk
-	Malcolm Lange		ovtk
-	Robert Peters Robert Peters Robert Louis Peters is a poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor, and actor born in an impoverished rural area of northern Wisconsin in 1924. He holds a Ph.D in Victorian literature. His poetry career began in 1967 when his young son Richard died unexpectedly of spinal meningitis...		ovtk
-	Raúl Domínguez Raúl Domínguez Raúl Domínguez Romero is a retired male track cyclist from Cuba. He competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, after having won two gold medals in the previous year at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba.-References:*...		DNS

Quarter-finals

Held July 28

In the first round of actual match competition, cyclists were seeded into matches based on their times from the qualifying round. The winners of the four heats of Group A advanced to the semi-finals. Group B and the losers of heats in Group A were seeded.

Group B

Heat 1

Pos.	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed
1	Servais Knaven Servais Knaven Henricus Theodorus Josephus Knaven is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer, currently a directeur sportif for Team Sky. Knaven won Paris–Roubaix in 2001 and is the second rider in history to start and finish the race 16 times...		4:27.954	53.740 km/h
2	Michal Baldrián		4:28.838	51.113 km/h

Heat 2

Pos.	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed
1	Adolfo Alperi		4:34.760	52.409 km/h
2	Robert Karśnicki		4:35.184	52.328 km/h

Heat 3

Pos.	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed
1	Ivan Beltrami		4:36.150	52.145 km/h
2	Michael Belcourt		4:42.441	50.984 km/h

Heat 4

Pos.	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed
1	Cédric Mathy Cédric Mathy Cédric Mathy is a cyclist from Belgium.He competed for Belgium in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain in the points race event where he finished in third place.-References:*...		4:33.942	52.565 km/h
2	Masamitsu Ehara		4:41.287	51.193 km/h

Group A

Heat 1

Pos.	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed	Qual.
1	Gary Anderson Gary Anderson Gary Allan Anderson is a former National Football League placekicker. He was the first NFL kicker to have a "perfect regular season," successfully making every field goal and every PAT during regular season play.-Early life:...		4:27.954	53.740 km/h	Q
2	Philippe Ermenault Philippe Ermenault Philippe Ermenault is a French former track cyclist. Ermenault was twice world champion in individual pursuit and Olympic champion as part of the France team in the team pursuit.-Results:- External links :...		4:28.838	51.113 km/h

Heat 2

Pos.	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed	Qual.
1	Mark Kingsland		4:29.173	53.497 km/h	Q
2	Carl Sundquist		ovtk

Heat 3

Pos.	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed	Qual.
1	Jens Lehmann Jens Lehmann (cyclist) Jens Lehmann is a German professional cyclist and double Olympic champion. Despite his many successes , he will probably be remembered best as the person caught by Chris Boardman riding the revolutionary 'Lotus Superbike,...		4:27.715	53.788 km/h	Q
2	Oleksandr Honchenkov		ovtk

Heat 4

Pos.	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed	Qual.
1	Chris Boardman Chris Boardman Christopher "Chris" Boardman MBE is a former English racing cyclist who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and broke the world hour record three times, as well as winning three stages and wearing the yellow jersey on three separate occasions at the Tour de France...		4:24.496	54.443 km/h	Q
2	Jan Bo Petersen		ovtk

Semi-finals

Held July 29

The winner of the two heats advance to the finals, for the gold medal. The loser with the fastest semi-final time wins the bronze.

Heat 1

Pos.	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed	Qual.
1	Jens Lehmann Jens Lehmann (cyclist) Jens Lehmann is a German professional cyclist and double Olympic champion. Despite his many successes , he will probably be remembered best as the person caught by Chris Boardman riding the revolutionary 'Lotus Superbike,...		4:27.230	53.886 km/h	Q
2	Gary Anderson Gary Anderson Gary Allan Anderson is a former National Football League placekicker. He was the first NFL kicker to have a "perfect regular season," successfully making every field goal and every PAT during regular season play.-Early life:...		4:31.061	53.124 km/h

Heat 2

Pos.	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed	Qual.
1	Chris Boardman Chris Boardman Christopher "Chris" Boardman MBE is a former English racing cyclist who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and broke the world hour record three times, as well as winning three stages and wearing the yellow jersey on three separate occasions at the Tour de France...		4:29.332	53.465 km/h	Q
2	Mark Kingsland		4:32.716	52.802 km/h

Final

Held July 29

Pos.	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed
1	Chris Boardman Chris Boardman Christopher "Chris" Boardman MBE is a former English racing cyclist who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and broke the world hour record three times, as well as winning three stages and wearing the yellow jersey on three separate occasions at the Tour de France...		cap	48.160 km/h
2	Gary Anderson Gary Anderson Gary Allan Anderson is a former National Football League placekicker. He was the first NFL kicker to have a "perfect regular season," successfully making every field goal and every PAT during regular season play.-Early life:...		ovtl

Final classification

	Final results
Pos.	Athlete	NOC
1.	Chris Boardman Chris Boardman Christopher "Chris" Boardman MBE is a former English racing cyclist who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and broke the world hour record three times, as well as winning three stages and wearing the yellow jersey on three separate occasions at the Tour de France...
2.	Jens Lehman
3.	Gary Anderson Gary Anderson Gary Allan Anderson is a former National Football League placekicker. He was the first NFL kicker to have a "perfect regular season," successfully making every field goal and every PAT during regular season play.-Early life:...
4.	Mark Kingsland
5.	Philippe Ermenault Philippe Ermenault Philippe Ermenault is a French former track cyclist. Ermenault was twice world champion in individual pursuit and Olympic champion as part of the France team in the team pursuit.-Results:- External links :...
6.	Cédric Mathy Cédric Mathy Cédric Mathy is a cyclist from Belgium.He competed for Belgium in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain in the points race event where he finished in third place.-References:*...
7.	Adolfo Alperi
8.	Ivan Beltrami
9.	Servais Knaven Servais Knaven Henricus Theodorus Josephus Knaven is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer, currently a directeur sportif for Team Sky. Knaven won Paris–Roubaix in 2001 and is the second rider in history to start and finish the race 16 times...
10.	Jan Bo Petersen
11.	Oleksandr Honchenkov
12.	Carl Sundquist
13.	Robert Karśnicki
14.	Michal Baldrián
15.	Masamitsu Ehara
16.	Michael Belcourt