title: 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team pursuit
text: # 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team pursuit
  
  The Men's team pursuit at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on April 4. 15 nations of 4 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 Ed Clancy Steven Burke Peter Kennaugh Geraint Thomas Andrew Tennant |
  | - | - |
  | Silver | Australia Glenn O'Shea Jack Bobridge Rohan Dennis Michael Hepburn |
  | Bronze | New Zealand Aaron Gate Sam Bewley Westley Gough Marc Ryan |
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Qualifying
  
  The qualifying was held at 15:00.
  
  | Rank | Name | Nation | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Ed Clancy Peter Kennaugh Andrew Tennant Geraint Thomas | Great Britain | 3:54.485 | Q |
  | 2 | Glenn O'Shea Jack Bobridge Rohan Dennis Michael Hepburn | Australia | 3:54.654 | Q |
  | 3 | Aaron Gate Sam Bewley Westley Gough Marc Ryan | New Zealand | 3:59.156 | Q |
  | 4 | Artur Ershov Evgeny Kovalev Alexei Markov Alexander Serov | Russia | 3:59.290 | Q |
  | 5 | Pablo Aitor Bernal Asier Maeztu Billelabeitia Sebastián Mora Vedri Albert Torres | Spain | 4:01.717 | |
  | 6 | Gijs van Hoecke Kenny De Ketele Dominique Cornu Jonathan Dufrasne | Belgium | 4:02.317 | |
  | 7 | Lasse Norman Hansen Casper Folsach Rasmus Quaade Christian Ranneries | Denmark | 4:03.237 | |
  | 8 | Peter Schep Levi Heimans Arno van der Zwet Tim Veldt | Netherlands | 4:04.489 | |
  | 9 | Nikias Arndt Henning Bommel Jakob Steigmiller Stefan Schaefer | Germany | 4:05.078 | |
  | 10 | Jang Sun-jae Park Keon-Woo Park Seon-Ho Park Sung-Baek | South Korea | 4:06.970 | |
  | 11 | Silvan Dillier Claudio Imhof Loïc Perizzolo Cyrille Thièry | Switzerland | 4:09.200 | |
  | 12 | Luis Sepúlveda Antonio Cabrera Gonzalo Miranda Pablo Seisdedos | Chile | 4:10.249 | |
  | 13 | Oleksandr Lobov Maxim Polischuk Vitaliy Popkov Vitaliy Shchedov | Ukraine | 4:10.943 | |
  | 14 | Choi Ki Ho Kwok Ho Ting Cheung King Lok Cheung King Wai | Hong Kong | 4:11.886 | |
  | 15 | Alexey Lyalko Dias Omirzakov Ivan Tsissaruk Artyom Zakharov | Kazakhstan | 4:13.145 | |
  
  ### Finals
  
  The finals were held at 19:20.
  
  **Small Final**
  
  | Rank | Name | Nation | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Aaron Gate Sam Bewley Westley Gough Marc Ryan | New Zealand | 3:57.592 | |
  | 4 | Artur Ershov Evgeny Kovalev Alexei Markov Alexander Serov | Russia | 3:59.237 | |
  
  **Final**
  
  | Rank | Name | Nation | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Ed Clancy Peter Kennaugh Steven Burke Geraint Thomas | Great Britain | 3:53.295 | WR |
  | | Glenn O'Shea Jack Bobridge Rohan Dennis Michael Hepburn | Australia | 3:53.401 | |
  