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RECORDS


In a reversal of the 2002 Commonwealth Games final, where McGee had caught Wiggins before the end, the Brit took the title to make up for the disappointment of his team-mate losing the bronze medal match.


RESULTS


OR denotes Olympic Record

Q denotes qualified for next round



Qualifying round

August 20 , 16:30

The sixteen 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 eight fastest times advanced, regardless of whether they won or lost their match.










First round

In the first round of actual match competition, cyclists were seeded into matches based on their times from the qualifying round. The fastest cyclist faced the eighth-fastest, the second-fastest faced the third, and so forth. Winners advanced to the finals while losers in each match received a final ranking based on their time in the round.

  • Heat 1:

  • #Rob Hayles, Great Britain 4:19.559 Q - 3rd

  • #Volodymyr Dyuda, Ukraine 4:22.720 (7th place)


  • Heat 2:

  • #Brad McGee, Australia 4:17.978 Q - 2nd

  • #Robert Bartko, Germany 4:26.184 (8th place)


  • Heat 3:

  • #Sergi Escobar, Spain 4:19.581 Q - 4th

  • #Luke Roberts, Australia 4:20.336 (5th place)


  • Heat 4:

  • #Bradley Wiggins, Great Britain 4:17.215 Q - 1st

  • #Fabien Sanchez, France 4:21.235 (6th place)



Finals

Cyclists were again re-seeded, this time based on their times in the first round. The third- and fourth-fastest riders faced off in the bronze medal match, while the fastest two riders competed for the gold and silver medals.

  • Bronze medal match:

  • #Sergi Escobar, Spain 4:17.947

  • #Rob Hayles, Great Britain 4:22.291


  • Gold medal match:

  • #Bradley Wiggins, Great Britain 4:16.304

  • #Brad McGee, Australia 4:20.436



FINAL CLASSIFICATION

#Bradley Wiggins, Great Britain
#Brad McGee, Australia
#Sergi Escobar, Spain
#Rob Hayles, Great Britain
#Luke Roberts, Australia
#Fabien Sanchez, France
#Volodymyr Dyuda, Ukraine
#Robert Bartko, Germany
#Linas Balciunas, Lithuania
#Alexei Markov, Russia
#Christian Lademann, Germany
#Carlos Castano, Spain
#Vasili Kiryienka, Belarus
#Yuriy Yuda, Kazakhstan
#Hossein Askari, Iran
DNS: Levi Heimans, Netherlands

''(DNS = Did Not Start)''