4Km Pursuit

By on August 16, 2008 in cycling

The 4Km Pursuit

The 4Km pursuit is one of the blue rib band events of track cycling. It has been in the programme for many years. I will never forget the excitement of Chris Boardman winning Olympic gold in Barcelona in 1992. In those days a track gold was a bit of a rarity. A lot of credit was given to Chris Boardman’s lotus monocoque bike, though this underrated the importance of his athletic achievement.

Women’s 3Km Pursuit

It is rather a shame that women do a 3KM event rather than 4Km.  It’s rather like athletics giving women a 90 metre sprint rather than 100 metre sprint.

World Record for 4Km. 4 mins 14 seconds (not certain) – Chris Boardman  average speed = 56.4705882 kmph

World Record for 4Km team pursuit. 3:56.322 Great Britain March 26th 2008 average speed over 60 kmph

2008 Olympic 4Km Pursuit Title

Gold – Bradley Wiggins GB

Silver – Hayden Roulston NZ

Bronze – Steven Burke GB


5 Responses to 4Km Pursuit

  1. Damien Jenkins September 30, 2008 at 8:56 am #

    Sorry, I lie, my time was 23 thousandths of a second slower than Mr Wiggins, even so, pretty reasonable time i think? So if anyone can answer my question on the beforementioned blog I’d be very grateful.

    Thanks

    Damien :)

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  2. Damien Jenkins September 29, 2008 at 9:41 pm #

    Hi there, does anyone know if there is a world record for 4km on an ergometer?

    I’ve had 3 cracks at the distance in the last 10 days and got my time down to 4m 17s this morning. Now I’m sure there’s a bit more to this than meets the eye, but as that time is faster than the time Bradley Wiggins did to take gold in Beijing I was just wondering how i might find out if I am actually any good at this cycling thing?

    Anyone have any ideas?

    Cheers

    Damien :)

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  3. Ashley Grimes August 16, 2008 at 11:26 pm #

    Just wondering, as you mention Boardman, what you thought of his Olympian choices in the Independent…

    http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/news-and-features/chris-boardmans-greatest-olympians-899028.html

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  4. tejvan August 16, 2008 at 4:12 pm #

    Thanks!

    Funnily enough I have had a light hearted bet with an Australian friend tha GB will get more golds than Australia this time. I doubt he has the same attitude a British gold is next best thing. :)

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  5. CyclePig August 16, 2008 at 3:20 pm #

    Was great to see Wiggins take gold. Although I would have preferred to see an Australian win, for me a British gold is the next best thing.

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