Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's individual pursuit
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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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
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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
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