Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's team pursuit

The men's team pursuit speed skating competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 18 and 21 February 2018 at Gangneung Oval in Gangneung^[1][2]

Men's team pursuit at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Gangneung Oval, Gangneung, South Korea
Date	18 February (quarterfinals) 21 February (semifinals, finals)
Competitors	29 from 8 nations
Winning time	3:37.32
Medalists
Håvard Bøkko Simen Spieler Nilsen Sverre Lunde Pedersen Sindre Henriksen  Norway Lee Seung-hoon Chung Jae-won Kim Min-seok  South Korea Patrick Roest Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij  Netherlands
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Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic and track records were as follows.

World record	Netherlands Koen Verweij Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer	3:35.60	Salt Lake City, United States	16 November 2013
Olympic record	Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	3:37.71	Sochi, Russia	22 February 2014
Track record	Netherlands Jorrit Bergsma Jan Blokhuijsen Douwe de Vries	3:40.66		10 February 2017

The following records were set during this competition.

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record
18 February	Quarterfinal 1	Sindre Henriksen Simen Spieler Nilsen Sverre Lunde Pedersen	Norway	3:40.09	TR
	Quarterfinal 2	Chung Jae-won Kim Min-seok Lee Seung-hoon	South Korea	3:39.29	TR
21 February	Semifinal 1	Chung Jae-won Kim Min-seok Lee Seung-hoon	South Korea	3:38.82	TR
	Semifinal 2	Håvard Bøkko Simen Spieler Nilsen Sverre Lunde Pedersen	Norway	3:37.08	OR WB (sea level) TR

Results

Quarterfinals

Although these races are called quarterfinals, no direct elimination is used but the teams are ranked by time, with the top four teams progressing to the semifinals.

The quarterfinals were held on 18 February at 20:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Country	Name	Time	Notes
1	2	South Korea	Chung Jae-won Kim Min-seok Lee Seung-hoon	3:39.29 TR	Semifinal 1
2	4	Netherlands	Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	3:40.03	Semifinal 2
3	1	Norway	Sindre Henriksen Simen Spieler Nilsen Sverre Lunde Pedersen	3:40.09 TR	Semifinal 2
4	1	New Zealand	Shane Dobbin Reyon Kay Peter Michael	3:41.18	Semifinal 1
5	3	Japan	Seitaro Ichinohe Shota Nakamura Shane Williamson	3:41.62	Final C
6	2	Italy	Riccardo Bugari Andrea Giovannini Nicola Tumolero	3:41.64	Final C
7	3	Canada	Jordan Belchos Ted-Jan Bloemen Denny Morrison	3:41.73	Final D
8	4	United States	Brian Hansen Emery Lehman Joey Mantia	3:42.98	Final D

TR = track record

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 21 February at 20:22.^[4]

Rank	Country	Name	Time	Deficit	Notes
Semifinal 1
1	South Korea	Chung Jae-won Kim Min-seok Lee Seung-hoon	3:38.82 TR		Final A
2	New Zealand	Shane Dobbin Reyon Kay Peter Michael	3:39.53	+0.71	Final B
Semifinal 2
1	Norway	Håvard Bøkko Simen Spieler Nilsen Sverre Lunde Pedersen	3:37.08 OR, TR		Final A
2	Netherlands	Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Patrick Roest	3:38.46	+1.38	Final B

Finals

The finals were held on 21 February at 21:13.^[5]

Rank	Country	Name	Time	Deficit	Notes
Final A
	Norway	Håvard Bøkko Simen Spieler Nilsen Sverre Lunde Pedersen	3:37.32
	South Korea	Chung Jae-won Kim Min-seok Lee Seung-hoon	3:38.52	+1.20
Final B
	Netherlands	Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Patrick Roest	3:38.40
4	New Zealand	Shane Dobbin Reyon Kay Peter Michael	3:43.54	+5.14
Final C
5	Japan	Seitaro Ichinohe Ryosuke Tsuchiya Shane Williamson	3:41.62
6	Italy	Riccardo Bugari Andrea Giovannini Nicola Tumolero	DSQ		R 256.3
Final D
7	Canada	Ted-Jan Bloemen Ben Donnelly Denny Morrison	3:42.16
8	United States	Jonathan Garcia Brian Hansen Emery Lehman	3:50.77	+8.61

References

1. "Venues". www.pyeongchang2018.com/. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
2. "Schedule". POCOG. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
3. Quarterfinals results
4. Semifinals results
5. Final results