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Individual Pursuit, 4,000 metres, Women

Date15 – 17 August 2008
StatusOlympic
LocationLaoshan Zixingcheguan, Beijing
Participants13 from 11 countries

In Athina Britain’s Rebecca Romero had won a medal – but in rowing. She was a member of the British quad sculls team that placed second in 2004. A back injury forced her to turn to cycling a year later. Her rise in the sport was meteoric, as she was second at the 2007 World Championships in only her second year of international racing, and had won the 2008 World Championships in March. She was co- favorite with America’s Sarah Hammer, World Champion in 2006-07, and runner-up to Romero in 2008. Hammer struggled in Beijing. She qualified in fifth place as the qualifying was led by Romero’s teammate, Wendy Houvenaghel, with Romero second. Houvenaghel was also a latecomer to the sport, not having started competing on the bike until she had turned 27, but she had placed fourth at the 2008 Worlds. In round one, Romero and Houvenaghel qualified for the gold medal race with the best times, while Hammer was defeated by New Zealand’s Alison Shanks and would finish only fifth. The final between the British teammates was not close. Romero had the fastest time at each kilometer split and won by over two seconds. In the bronze medal race, Shanks lost out to Ukraine’s Lesya Kalitovska.

PosCompetitor(s)NOC
1Rebecca RomeroGBRGold
2Wendy HouvenaghelGBRSilver
3Lesia KalytovskaUKRBronze
4Alison ShanksNZL
5Sarah HammerUSA
6Vilija SereikaitėLTU
7Katie MactierAUS
8Lada KozlíkováCZE
9Karin ThürigSUI
10María Luisa CalleCOL
11Verena JooßGER
12Svetlana PauliukaitėLTU
13Evelyn GarcíaESA

Qualifying Round (15 – 15 August 2008 — 18:00)

Top eight finishers advanced to round one.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Wendy HouvenaghelGBR3:28.443Q
2Rebecca RomeroGBR3:28.641Q
3Lesia KalytovskaUKR3:31.942Q
4Alison ShanksNZL3:34.312Q
5Sarah HammerUSA3:35.471Q
6Vilija SereikaitėLTU3:36.063Q
7Katie MactierAUS3:38.178Q
8Lada KozlíkováCZE3:39.561Q
9Karin ThürigSUI3:40.862
10María Luisa CalleCOL3:41.175
11Verena JooßGER3:44.480
12Svetlana PauliukaitėLTU3:45.691
13Evelyn GarcíaESA3:56.849

Heat One (15 – 15 August 2008 — 18:00)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Evelyn GarcíaESA3:56.849

Heat Two

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Lada KozlíkováCZE3:39.561Q
2Svetlana PauliukaitėLTU3:45.691

Heat Three

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Karin ThürigSUI3:40.862
2Verena JooßGER3:44.480

Heat Four

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Vilija SereikaitėLTU3:36.063Q
2María Luisa CalleCOL3:41.175

Heat Five

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Lesia KalytovskaUKR3:31.942Q
2Alison ShanksNZL3:34.312Q

Heat Six

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Wendy HouvenaghelGBR3:28.443Q
2Sarah HammerUSA3:35.471Q

Heat Seven

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Rebecca RomeroGBR3:28.641Q
2Katie MactierAUS3:38.178Q

Round One (16 – 16 August 2008 — 17:05)

Winner of each heat advanced to final.

Heat One

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Alison ShanksNZL3:32.478q
2Sarah HammerUSA3:34.237

Heat Two

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Lesia KalytovskaUKR3:31.785q
2Vilija SereikaitėLTU3:36.808

Heat Three

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Rebecca RomeroGBR3:27.703Q
2Katie MactierAUS3:37.296caught

Heat Four

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Wendy HouvenaghelGBR3:27.829Q
2Lada KozlíkováCZEDNF

Final Round (17 – 17 August 2008)

Match 1/2 (17 – 17 August 2008 — 17:10)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
1Rebecca RomeroGBR3:28.321
2Wendy HouvenaghelGBR3:30.395

Match 3/4 (17 – 17 August 2008 — 17:05)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCTime
3Lesia KalytovskaUKR3:31.413
4Alison ShanksNZL3:34.156