title: 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit
text: # 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit
  
  The Women's team pursuit at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on April 5. 14 nations of 3 cyclists each participated in the contest. After the qualifying, the fastest 2 teams raced for gold, and 3rd and 4th teams raced for bronze.
  
  ## Medalists
  
  | Gold | Great Britain Danielle King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell |
  | - | - |
  | Silver | Australia Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic |
  | Bronze | Canada Tara Whitten Jasmin Glaesser Gillian Carleton |
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Qualifying
  
  The Qualifying was held at .
  
  | Rank | Name | Nation | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Danielle King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell | Great Britain | 3:16.850 | WR, Q |
  | 2 | Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic | Australia | 3:17.053 | Q * |
  | 3 | Tara Whitten Jasmin Glaesser Gillian Carleton | Canada | 3:19.494 | Q |
  | 4 | Lauren Ellis Jaime Nielsen Alison Shanks | New Zealand | 3:20.598 | Q |
  | 5 | Sarah Hammer Dotsie Bausch Lauren Tamayo | United States | 3:21.765 | |
  | 6 | Alena Dylko Aksana Papko Tatsiana Sharakova | Belarus | 3:22.509 | |
  | 7 | Jiang Fan Jiang Wenwen Liang Jing | China | 3:23.083 | |
  | 8 | Charlotte Becker Lisa Brennauer Madeleine Sandig | Germany | 3:24.145 | |
  | 9 | Svitlana Halyuk Yelyzaveta Bochkaryova Lesya Kalytovska | Ukraine | 3:24.227 | |
  | 10 | Evgenia Romanyuta Venera Absalyamova Viktoriya Kondel | Russia | 3:24.644 | |
  | 11 | Vilija Sereikaitė Aušrinė Trebaitė Vaida Pikauskaitė | Lithuania | 3:25.656 | |
  | 12 | Kanako Kase Maki Tabata Minami Uwano | Japan | 3:31.165 | |
  | 13 | Meng Zhao Juan Wong Wan Yiu Diao Xiao Juan | Hong Kong | 3:37.952 | |
  | | Katarzyna Pawłowska Małgorzata Wojtyra Eugenia Bujak | Poland | | DSQ |
  
  * The time set by the Australian team in qualifying was itself a new world record, but was immediately overtaken by the Great Britain team.
  
  ### Finals
  
  The finals were held at 19:15.
  
  **Small Final**
  
  | Rank | Name | Nation | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Tara Whitten Jasmin Glaesser Gillian Carleton | Canada | 3:19.529 | |
  | 4 | Lauren Ellis Jaime Nielsen Alison Shanks | New Zealand | 3:19.847 | |
  
  **Final**
  
  | Rank | Name | Nation | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Danielle King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell | Great Britain | 3:15.720 | WR |
  | | Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic | Australia | 3:16.943 | |
  