Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's team pursuit

The women's team pursuit race consists of a 3 km race between two teams of three cyclists, starting on opposite sides of the track. If one team catches the other, the race is over.

The tournament consisted of an initial qualifying round. The top four teams in the qualifying round remained in contention for the gold medal, the 5th to 8th place teams could compete for a possible bronze, and the remaining teams were eliminated.

The "first round" consisted of the four fastest qualifiers competing in head-to-head races (1st vs. 4th, 2nd vs. 3rd). The winners of these heats advanced to the gold medal final. The other four qualifiers also competed in the first round (5th vs. 8th, 6th vs. 7th). Advancement to the bronze medal final was based solely on time, with the fastest two teams among the six qualifiers who had not advanced to the gold medal final reaching the bronze medal final. Qualification races were also held to determine 5th/6th place (between the next two fastest first-round teams who had not reached either the gold or bronze finals) and 7th/8th place (among the remaining two first-round teams).[3]

All times are British Summer Time

In the final classification are also the riders listed who competed during the Qualification and the First Round.

Rank	Country	Cyclists
	Great Britain	Dani King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell
	United States	Sarah Hammer Dotsie Bausch Lauren Tamayo Jennie Reed
	Canada	Tara Whitten Gillian Carleton Jasmin Glaesser
4	Australia	Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic
5	New Zealand	Lauren Ellis Jaime Nielsen Alison Shanks
6	Netherlands	Ellen van Dijk Kirsten Wild Vera Koedooder Amy Pieters
7	Belarus	Tatsiana Sharakova Alena Dylko Aksana Papko
8	Germany	Judith Arndt Charlotte Becker Lisa Brennauer
9	Ukraine	Yelyzaveta Bochkaryova Svitlana Halyuk Lesya Kalytovska
10	China	Jiang Fan Jiang Wenwen Liang Jing