title: Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit
text: # Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit
  
  The men's team pursuit event at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place on 25 and 26 July 1980 in Moscow Olympic Velodrome.
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Qualifying
  
  | Rank | Cyclists | Land | Time | Speed (km/h) | Qualified |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Aleksandr Krasnov Viktor Manakov Valery Movchan Vitaly Petrakov | Soviet Union | 4:16.62 | 56.1147 | Q |
  | 2 | Gerald Mortag Uwe Unterwalder Matthias Wiegand Volker Winkler | East Germany | 4:18.24 | 55.7627 | Q |
  | 3 | Pierangelo Bincoletto Guido Bontempi Ivano Maffei Silvestro Milani | Italy | 4:18.85 | 55.6317 | Q |
  | 4 | Teodor Černý Martin Penc Jiří Pokorný Igor Sláma | Czechoslovakia | 4:19.56 | 55.4787 | Q |
  | 5 | Sean Yates Tony Doyle Malcolm Elliott Glen Mitchell (British cyclist) | Great Britain | 4:19.73 | 55.4227 | Q |
  | 6 | Alain Bondue Philippe Chevalier Pascal Poisson Jean-Marc Rebière | France | 4:20.52 | 55.2747 | Q |
  | 7 | Robert Dill-Bundi Urs Freuler Hans Känel Hans Ledermann | Switzerland | 4:20.56 | 55.2667 | Q |
  | 8 | Colin Fitzgerald Kevin Nichols Gary Sutton Kelvin Poole | Australia | 4:21.76 | 55.0127 | Q |
  | 9 | Marek Kulesza Andrzej Michalak Janusz Sałach Zbigniew Woźnicki | Poland | 4:28.38 | 53.6557 | |
  | 10 | Jan Blomme Diederik Foubert Jozef Simons Joseph Smeets | Belgium | 4:29.75 | 53.383 | |
  | 11 | Hans Fischer José Carlos de Lima Fernando Louro Antônio Silvestre | Brazil | 4:32.34 | 52.875 | |
  | 12 | Ervin Dér Csaba Pálinkás Zsigmond Sarkadi Nagy Gábor Szűcs | Hungary | 4:36.32 | 52.113 | |
  | 13 | Esteban Espinosa Jhon Jarrín Edwin Mena Juan Palacios | Ecuador | 4:50.83 | 49.513 | |
  
  ### Quarter finals
  
  Heat 1
  
  | Rank | Nation | Time | Speed (km/h) | Qualified |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Czechoslovakia | 4:18.48 | 55.710 | Q |
  | 2 | Great Britain | 4:23.45 | 54.659 | |
  
  Heat 2
  
  | Rank | Nation | Time | Speed (km/h) | Qualified |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Italy | 4:18.27 | 55.756 | Q |
  | 2 | France | 4:18.58 | 55.689 | |
  
  Heat 3
  
  | Rank | Nation | Time | Speed (km/h) | Qualified |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | East Germany | 4:17.43 | 55.937 | Q |
  | 2 | Switzerland | 4:23.56 | 54.636 | |
  
  Heat 4
  
  | Rank | Nation | Time | Speed (km/h) | Qualified |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Soviet Union | 4:14.64 | 56.550 | Q |
  | 2 | Australia | 4:22.02 | 54.958 | |
  
  ### Semi finals
  
  Heat 1
  
  | Rank | Nation | Time | Speed (km/h) | Qualified |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | East Germany | 4:18.16 | 55.779 | Q |
  | 2 | Italy | 4:20.13 | 55.357 | |
  
  Heat 2
  
  | Rank | Nation | Time | Speed (km/h) | Qualified |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Soviet Union | 4:26.52 | 54.030 | Q |
  | 2 | Czechoslovakia | 4:32.68 | 52.809 | |
  
  ### Finals
  
  Bronze medal race
  
  | Rank | Nation | Time | Speed (km/h) | Place |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Czechoslovakia | 4:10.01 | | |
  | 2 | Italy | 4:11.63 | REL | 4 |
  
  Gold medal race
  
  | Rank | Nation | Time | Speed (km/h) | Place |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Soviet Union | 4:15.70 | 56.316 | |
  | 2 | East Germany | 4:19.67 | 55.453 | |
  