Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's team pursuit

Men's team pursuit at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Richmond Olympic Oval
Dates	26–27 February 2010
Medalists
Mathieu Giroux Lucas Makowsky Denny Morrison   Canada   Brian Hansen Chad Hedrick Jonathan Kuck Trevor Marsicano   United States   Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Mark Tuitert Simon Kuipers   Netherlands

Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men
Team pursuit		men		women

The men's team pursuit speed skating competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Richmond Olympic Oval on 26 and 27 February 2010.

Records

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

World record	Netherlands	3:37.80	Salt Lake City, United States	11 March 2007
Olympic record	Italy	3:43.64	Torino, Italy	15 February 2006

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Round	Athletes	Country	Time	Record
February 26	Quarterfinal 1	Mathieu Giroux Lucas Makowsky Denny Morrison	Canada	3:42.38	OR, TR
February 26	Semifinal 1	Mathieu Giroux Lucas Makowsky Denny Morrison	Canada	3:42.22	OR, TR
February 27	Final B	Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Simon Kuipers	Netherlands	3:39.95	OR, TR

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

Results

Bracket

Quarterfinal

Semifinal

Final

1

Netherlands

3:44.25

7

Sweden

3:46.40

1

Netherlands

3:43.11

4

United States

3:42.71

6

Japan

3:48.15

4

United States

3:44.25

4

United States

3:41.58

3

Canada

3:41.37

3

Canada

3:42.38

5

Italy

3:46.35

3

Canada

3:42.22

Third place

2

Norway

3:43.44

8

South Korea

3:43.69

1

Netherlands

3:39.95

2

Norway

3:43.66

2

Norway

3:40.50

Quarterfinals

Rank	Country	Name	Time	Deficit	Notes
Quarterfinal 1
1	Canada	Mathieu Giroux Lucas Makowsky Denny Morrison	3:42.38		Semifinal 1, OR
2	Italy	Matteo Anesi Enrico Fabris Luca Stefani	3:46.35	+3.97	Final C
Quarterfinal 2
1	United States	Chad Hedrick Jonathan Kuck Trevor Marsicano	3:44.25		Semifinal 2
2	Japan	Shigeyuki Dejima Hiroki Hirako Teruhiro Sugimori	3:48.15	+3.90	Final D
Quarterfinal 3
1	Norway	Håvard Bøkko Mikael Flygind Larsen Fredrik van der Horst	3:43.66		Semifinal 1
2	South Korea	Ha Hong-sun Lee Jong-woo Lee Seung-hoon	3:43.69	+0.03	Final C
Quarterfinal 4
1	Netherlands	Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Simon Kuipers	3:44.25		Semifinal 2
2	Sweden	Joel Eriksson Daniel Friberg Johan Röjler	3:46.40	+2.15	Final D

Semifinals

Rank	Country	Name	Time	Deficit	Notes
Semifinal 1
1	Canada	Mathieu Giroux Lucas Makowsky Denny Morrison	3:42.22		Final A, OR
2	Norway	Håvard Bøkko Henrik Christiansen Fredrik van der Horst	3:43.44	+1.22	Final B
Semifinal 2
1	United States	Brian Hansen Chad Hedrick Jonathan Kuck	3:42.71		Final A
2	Netherlands	Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Mark Tuitert	3:43.11	+0.40	Final B

Finals

Rank	Country	Name	Time	Deficit	Notes
Final A
01 !	Canada	Mathieu Giroux Lucas Makowsky Denny Morrison	3:41.37
02 !	United States	Brian Hansen Chad Hedrick Jonathan Kuck	3:41.58	+0.21
Final B
03 !	Netherlands	Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Simon Kuipers	3:39.95		OR
4	Norway	Håvard Bøkko Henrik Christiansen Mikael Flygind Larsen	3:40.50	+0.55
Final C
5	South Korea	Ha Hong-sun Lee Jong-woo Lee Seung-hoon	3:48.60
6	Italy	Matteo Anesi Enrico Fabris Luca Stefani	3:54.39	+5.79
Final D
7	Sweden	Joel Eriksson Daniel Friberg Johan Röjler	3:46.18
8	Japan	Shigeyuki Dejima Hiroki Hirako Teruhiro Sugimori	3:49.11	+2.93

External links

• "Results of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Team pursuit Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 19 November 2013. 
• "2010 Winter Olympics medalist in Speed Skating". Olympic.org. Retrieved 19 November 2013.