Team pursuit
The Team Pursuit is a Dispziplin the train cycling.
Rules and race course
The mode is the same as the one tracking. Here, however, two teams of four riders ( in the women's three riders ) against each other; Men's 4000m, women over 3000m. Time is measured in objective passage of the third rider of a team, so may a driver per team may leave during the race (eg due to fatigue) without jeopardizing the chances of winning the team. The team pursuit is considered the pinnacle of the track cycling, because in addition to the performance of each team member, the perfect matching each other is crucial. Until the change of leadership and the rear Cycling can be performed optimally at a minimum distance from a significant amount of training is required.
In contrast to race with a mass start, where drivers drive at a distance of 30 centimeters to over a meter at the rear of the vehicle ahead, is the ideal distance between the drivers of such a " train of four " 15-20 centimeters. At the change of leadership is made of the train cant sent advantage: The Leading shears in the curve to the right and loses of the excessive amounts very quickly to speed, but he almost completely recovers from the then higher potential energy by pivoting immediately back down and followed at the end.
Results of the UCI Track World Championships
By the year 1991, the world championship competition was reserved for the amateurs in the team pursuit and was not discharged in the years of the Olympic Games 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1992. After the separation between professionals and amateurs has been lifted. Since category will be held the Track World Championships in the new " elite".