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RESULTS


OR denotes Olympic Record

Q denotes qualified for next round

The Australia-Great Britain rivalry continued in an event which saw a new world record.


Qualifying round

For the qualifying round, teams did not face each other. Instead, they raced the 4000 metres by themselves. The top eight times qualified for the first competition round, with the other two teams receiving a rank based on their time in this round.

#, Peter Dawson , Brett Lancaster , Stephen Wooldridge , 4:00.613 Q

#, Paul Manning , Chris Newton , Bryan Steel , 4:03.985 Q

#, Sergi Escobar , Asier Maeztu , Carlos Torrent , 4:04.421 Q

#, Guido Fulst , Christian Lademann , Leif Lampater , 4:05.823 Q

#, Jens Mouris , Peter Schep , Jeroen Straathof , 4:06.286 Q

#, Roman Kononenko , Sergiy Matveyev , Vitlaiy Popkov , 4:07.175 Q

#, Anthony Langella , Jerome Neuville , Fabien Sanchez , 4:07.336 Q

#, Aivaras Baranauskas , Tomas Vaitkus , Raimondas Vilcinskas , 4:08.812 Q

#, Alexander Khatuntsev , Alexei Markov , Andrey Minashkin , 4:09.394

#, Peter Latham , Matthew Randall , Marc Ryan , 4:10.820


First round

In the first round of match competition, teams were seeded into matches based on their times from the qualifying round. The fastest team 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:

  • # Germany, 4:03.785 Q - 4th

  • # Netherlands, 4:04.605 (5th place)


  • Heat 2:

  • # Spain, 4:02.374 Q - 3rd

  • # Ukraine, 4:05.266 (6th place)


  • Heat 3:

  • # Great Britain, 3:59.866 Q - 2nd

  • # France, overlapped (7th place)


  • Heat 4:

  • # Australia, 3:57.280 WR Q - 1st

  • # Lithuania, overlapped (8th place)



Finals

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

  • Bronze medal match:

  • # Spain, 4:05.523

  • # Germany, 4:07.193


  • Gold medal match:

  • # Australia, 3:58.233

  • # Great Britain, 4:01.760



FINAL CLASSIFICATION

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