2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit
# 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit

The Women's team pursuit at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on April 5. 14 nations of 3 cyclists each participated in the contest. After the qualifying, the fastest 2 teams raced for gold, and 3rd and 4th teams raced for bronze.

## Medalists

| Gold | Great Britain Danielle King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell |
| - | - |
| Silver | Australia Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic |
| Bronze | Canada Tara Whitten Jasmin Glaesser Gillian Carleton |

## Results

### Qualifying

The Qualifying was held at .

| Rank | Name | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Danielle King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell | Great Britain | 3:16.850 | WR, Q |
| 2 | Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic | Australia | 3:17.053 | Q * |
| 3 | Tara Whitten Jasmin Glaesser Gillian Carleton | Canada | 3:19.494 | Q |
| 4 | Lauren Ellis Jaime Nielsen Alison Shanks | New Zealand | 3:20.598 | Q |
| 5 | Sarah Hammer Dotsie Bausch Lauren Tamayo | United States | 3:21.765 | |
| 6 | Alena Dylko Aksana Papko Tatsiana Sharakova | Belarus | 3:22.509 | |
| 7 | Jiang Fan Jiang Wenwen Liang Jing | China | 3:23.083 | |
| 8 | Charlotte Becker Lisa Brennauer Madeleine Sandig | Germany | 3:24.145 | |
| 9 | Svitlana Halyuk Yelyzaveta Bochkaryova Lesya Kalytovska | Ukraine | 3:24.227 | |
| 10 | Evgenia Romanyuta Venera Absalyamova Viktoriya Kondel | Russia | 3:24.644 | |
| 11 | Vilija Sereikaitė Aušrinė Trebaitė Vaida Pikauskaitė | Lithuania | 3:25.656 | |
| 12 | Kanako Kase Maki Tabata Minami Uwano | Japan | 3:31.165 | |
| 13 | Meng Zhao Juan Wong Wan Yiu Diao Xiao Juan | Hong Kong | 3:37.952 | |
| | Katarzyna Pawłowska Małgorzata Wojtyra Eugenia Bujak | Poland | | DSQ |

* The time set by the Australian team in qualifying was itself a new world record, but was immediately overtaken by the Great Britain team.

### Finals

The finals were held at 19:15.

**Small Final**

| Rank | Name | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Tara Whitten Jasmin Glaesser Gillian Carleton | Canada | 3:19.529 | |
| 4 | Lauren Ellis Jaime Nielsen Alison Shanks | New Zealand | 3:19.847 | |

**Final**

| Rank | Name | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Danielle King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell | Great Britain | 3:15.720 | WR |
| | Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic | Australia | 3:16.943 | |
