1993 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's individual pursuit was part of the

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. In 1993 the amateur 4 km and professional 5 km pursuit events were combined in a single championship run over 4 km. The format was different also, with the top 4 from the qualifying round going directly to the semi-finals, and the two winners of those races meeting in the final for

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Qualifying

Philippe Ermenault Philippe Ermenault (born 29 April 1969) is a French former track cyclist. Ermenault was twice world champion in individual pursuit and Olympic champion as part of the France team in the team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling even ...

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, 4:23.283 world record 2.

Graeme Obree Graeme Obree (born 11 September 1965), nicknamed The Flying Scotsman, is a Scottish racing cyclist who twice broke the world hour record, in July 1993 and April 1994, and was the individual pursuit world champion in 1993 and 1995. He was known ...

, Britain, 4:24.321 3.

Chris Boardman Christopher Miles Boardman, (born 26 August 1968) is a British former racing cyclist. A time trial and prologue specialist, Boardman won the inaugural men's World time trial championship in 1994, won the individual pursuit gold medal at the 1 ...

, Britain, 4:24.719 4. Shaun Wallace, Britain, 4:26.832 5.

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, 4:27.518 6. Roman Saprykin,

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, 4:29.306 7. Torsten Schmidt, Germany, 4:29.785 8. Andreas Bach, Germany, 4:29.892 9. Steve Hegg, U.S., 4:32.170 10. Vadim Kravchenko,

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, 4:32.215 11.

Eddy Seigneur Eddy Seigneur (born 15 February 1969 in Beauvais) is a French former professional road racing cyclist. His sporting career began with VC Beauvais Oise. He won the Champs-Élysées stage in 1994 Tour de France. He is a four-time French nationa ...

, France, 4:33.953 12. Jan-Bo Petersen,

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, 4:33.991 13. Michael Sandsted, Denmark, 4:34.362 14. Jesper Nielsen, Denmark, 4:34.461 15. Steffen Kjaergaard,

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, 4:34.462 16.

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, France, 4:34.927 17. Serguei Matveev,

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, 4:35.831 18. Glenn McLeay,

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, 4:36.101 19. Friedrich Berein,

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, 4:36.310 20. Gunter De Winne,

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, 4:36.712 21.

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, Switzerland, 4:37.403 22. Brian Walton,

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, 4:38.244 23. Ryszard Dawidowicz,

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, 4:38.284 24. Robert Karsnicki, Poland, 4:38.375 25. Bogdan Bondarev, Ukraine, 4:38.698 26. Fabio Placanica,

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, 4:39.358 27. Jonathan Garrido,

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, 4:39.531 28. Noriyuki Iijima, Japan, 4:39.724 29.

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, 4:40.304 30. George Portelanos,

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, 4:40.350 31. Alexander Smirnov,

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, 4:40.472 32. Glen Thomson, New Zealand, 4:41.957 33. Edgardo Simón,

, 4:42.150 34. Yasuhiro Ando, Japan, 4:42.460 35. Jukka Heinikanen,

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, 4:42.803 36. Carlos Suarez, Colombia, 4:42.974 37. Gianni Patuelli,

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, 4:44.461 38. Viktor Kunz, Switzerland, 4:44.898 39. Marcel Dunkel, Switzerland, 4:46.125 40. Alberny Vargas, Colombia, 4:48.153 41. Ho-Sung Cho,

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, 4:48.480 42. Stefano Casagranda, Italy, 4:48.572 43. Esteban Lopez, Colombia, 4:48.773 44. Patrick van Dijken, Netherlands, 4:48.880 45. Jose Jarque, Spain, 4:49.450 46. Wayne Burgess,

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, 4:49.560 47.

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, Finland, 4:50.548 48. Henning Orre, Norway, 4:53.246 49. Sergey Lavrinenko, Kazakhstan, 4:53.784

Semi-finals

*Ermenault beat Wallace *Obree beat Boardman

Final

* Obree beat Ermenault

References

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