Cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit

In the first round of heats, the 18 teams were divided into 9 pairs. Placing in the heats was not used to advance; rather, the 8 fastest teams from across the heats advanced to the quarterfinals.

Heat 1
1.	Lothar Claesges, Karl Link, Karl-Heinz Henrichs, and Ernst Streng (EUA)	4:42.28	QQ
2.	Trevor Bull, Hugh Porter, Harry Jackson, and Brian Sandy (GBR)	4:47:67
Heat 2
1.	Luigi Roncaglia, Carlo Rancati, Vincenzo Mantovani, and Franco Testa (ITA)	4:39.06	QQ
2.	Carlos Alberto Álvarez, Juan Alberto Merlos, Ernesto Contreras, and Alberto Trillo (ARG)	4:44.66	QQ
Heat 3
1.	Dzintars Lācis, Stanislav Moskvin, Leonid Kolumbet, and Sergey Tereshchenkov (URS)	4:43.76	QQ
2.	Robert Varga, Joseph Pare, Christian Cuch, and Jacques Suire (FRA)	4:50.62
Heat 4
1.	Bent Hansen, Jan Ingstrup-Mikkelsen, Preben Isaksson, and Kurt vid Stein (DEN)	4:46.97	QQ
2.	Jiri Daller, Jiří Pecka, Antonín Kříž, and Frantisek Rezak (TCH)	4:47.04	QQ
Heat 5
1.	Kevin Brislin, Victor Browne, Robert Baird, and Hendrikus Vogels (AUS)	4:44.90	QQ
2.	Gerard Koel, Jaap Oudkerk, Henk Cornelisse, and Cor Schuuring (NED)	4:45.33	QQ
Heat 6
1.	Hans Wolf, Donald Nelsen, Oliver Martin, and Arnold Uhrlass (USA)	5:01.41
2.	Leopold Heuvelmans, Roland van de Rijse, Roland de Neve, and Albert Van Vlierberghe (BEL)	5:04.25
Heat 7
1.	Preeda Chullamondhol, Smaisuk Krisansuwan, and Somchai Chantarasamrit (THA)	5:31.52
2.	Muhammad Ashiq, Muhammad Hafeez, Lal Bakhsh, and Muhammad Shafi (PAK)	5:38.77
Heat 8
1.	Norio Hotogi, Kosaku Takahashi, Fujio Ito, and Hiromi Yamafuji (JPN)	4:55.04
2.	Amar Singh Billing, Chetan Singh Hari, Dalbir Singh Gill, and Amar Singh Sokhi (IND)	Elim.
Heat 9
1.	Oscar Almada, Elio Juárez, Ruben Etchebarne, and Juan Timon (URU)	DNF
2.	Ng Joo Pong, Arulraj Rosli, Choy Mow Thim, and Kamsari Salam (MAS)	DNF

The quarterfinals paired off the 8 remaining teams into 4 heats. Winners advanced, losers were eliminated.

Quarterfinal 1
1.	Luigi Roncaglia, Carlo Rancati, Vincenzo Mantovani, and Franco Testa (ITA)	4:37.58	QS
2.	Jiri Daller, Jiří Pecka, Antonín Kříž, and Frantisek Rezak (TCH)	4:45.68
Quarterfinal 2
1.	Lothar Claesges, Karl Link, Karl-Heinz Henrichs, and Ernst Streng (EUA)	4:36.98	QS
2.	Bent Hansen, Jan Ingstrup-Mikkelsen, Preben Isaksson, and Kurt vid Stein (DEN)	4:43.58
Quarterfinal 3
1.	Gerard Koel, Jaap Oudkerk, Henk Cornelisse, and Cor Schuuring (NED)	4:40.41	QS
2.	Dzintars Lācis, Stanislav Moskvin, Leonid Kolumbet, and Sergey Tereshchenkov (URS)	4:41.70
Quarterfinal 4
1.	Kevin Brislin, Victor Browne, Robert Baird, and Hendrikus Vogels (AUS)	4:41.58	QS
2.	Carlos Alvarez, Juan Merlos, Ernesto Contreras, and Alberto Trillo (ARG)	4:45.74

The winner of each semifinal advanced to the gold medal match, while the loser was sent to the bronze medal match.

Semifinal 1
1.	Lothar Claesges, Karl Link, Karl-Heinz Henrichs, and Ernst Streng (EUA)	4:38.19	QG
2.	Kevin Brislin, Victor Browne, Robert Baird, and Hendrikus Vogels (AUS)	4:40.28	QB
Semifinal 2
1.	Luigi Roncaglia, Carlo Rancati, Vincenzo Mantovani, and Franco Testa (ITA)	4:37.98	QG
2.	Gerard Koel, Jaap Oudkerk, Henk Cornelisse, and Cor Schuuring (NED)	4:41.02	QB