Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's team pursuit

Men's team pursuit at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram of speed skating
Venue	Adler Arena Skating Center
Date	21–22 February 2014
Competitors	24 from 8 nations
Winning time	3:37.71
Medalists
Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij  Netherlands Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon  South Korea Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański  Poland
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Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Qualification
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
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The men's team pursuit speed skating competition of the 2014 Sochi Olympics was held at Adler Arena Skating Center on 21 and 22 February 2014.^[1] The distance was 3,200 metres.^[2]

Qualification

A total of eight teams of three or four speed skaters could qualify for this team event. The top 6 of the 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's team pursuit standings after the World Cup race in Berlin secured a spot in the Olympics. Of the teams outside the top six, France qualified based on the time ranking and Russia qualified as hosts. A reserve list was also made.^[3]

Records

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

World record	Netherlands Koen Verweij Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer	3:35.60	Salt Lake City, United States	16 November 2013	[4]
Olympic record	Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Simon Kuipers	3:39.95	Vancouver, Canada	27 February 2010

At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was at 3:42.03 by the team of the Netherlands consisting of Jan Blokhuijsen, Sven Kramer, and Koen Verweij.^[5]

The following records were set during this competition.

Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record
22 February	Final A	Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	Netherlands	3:37.71	OR, TR
21 February	Quarterfinal 2	Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	South Korea	3:40.84	TR
21 February	Semifinal 2	Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	Netherlands	3:40.79	TR

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

Results

On 24 November 2017, the Russian team were disqualified after Aleksandr Rumyantsev was sanctioned for a doping violation.^[6] On 22 December, Ivan Skobrev was disqualified as well.^[7] In January 2018, they successfully appealed against the lifetime ban as well as decision to disqualify them from Sochi Olympics at the court of arbitration for sport.^[8] Their results were reinstated.

Bracket

Quarterfinal

Semifinal

Final

1

Netherlands

3:44.48

7

France

3:53.17

1

Netherlands

3:40.79

5

Poland

3:52.08

4

Norway

3:43.19

5

Poland

3:42.78

1

Netherlands

3:37.71

2

South Korea

3:40.85

3

United States

3:46.82

6

Canada

3:43.30

6

Canada

3:45.28

Third place

2

South Korea

3:42.32

2

South Korea

3:40.84

5

Poland

3:41.94

8

Russia

3:44.22

6

Canada

3:44.27

Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals were held on 21 February.^[9]

Rank	Country	Name	Time	Deficit	Notes
Quarterfinal 1
1	Canada	Mathieu Giroux Lucas Makowsky Denny Morrison	3:43.30		Semifinal 1
2	United States	Shani Davis Brian Hansen Jonathan Kuck	3:46.82	+3.52	Final D
Quarterfinal 2
1	South Korea	Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	3:40.84		Semifinal 1 TR
2	Russia	Aleksandr Rumyantsev Denis Yuskov Ivan Skobrev	3:44.22	+3.38
Quarterfinal 3
1	Poland	Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański	3:42.78		Semifinal 2
2	Norway	Håvard Bøkko Håvard Lorentzen Sverre Lunde Pedersen	3:43.19	+0.41	Final C
Quarterfinal 4
1	Netherlands	Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	3:44.48		Semifinal 2
2	France	Alexis Contin Ewen Fernandez Benjamin Macé	3:53.17	+8.69	Final D

TR = track record

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 21 February.^[10]

Rank	Country	Name	Time	Deficit	Notes
Semifinal 1
1	South Korea	Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	3:42.32		Final A
2	Canada	Mathieu Giroux Lucas Makowsky Denny Morrison	3:45.28	+2.96	Final B
Semifinal 2
1	Netherlands	Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	3:40.79		Final A TR
2	Poland	Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański	3:52.08	+11.29	Final B

TR = track record

Finals

The finals were held on 22 February.^[11]

Rank	Country	Name	Time[12]	Deficit	Notes
Final A
	Netherlands	Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	3:37.71		OR, TR
	South Korea	Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	3:40.85	+3.14
Final B
	Poland	Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański	3:41.94
4	Canada	Mathieu Giroux Lucas Makowsky Denny Morrison	3:44.27	+2.33
Final C
5	Norway	Håvard Bøkko Sverre Lunde Pedersen Simen Spieler Nilsen	3:44.91
6	Russia	Aleksandr Rumyantsev Aleksey Yesin Denis Yuskov	3:49.85	+4.94
Final D
7	United States	Brian Hansen Jonathan Kuck Joey Mantia	3:46.50
8	France	Alexis Contin Ewen Fernandez Benjamin Macé	3:51.76	+5.26

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

References

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