A third place to maintain their habit of reaching the Olympic podium.

After their triumph three years ago in Tokyo, the men's team of Francesco Lamon, Filippo Ganna, Jonathan Milan, and Simone Consonni won the bronze medal in the team pursuit event at the Paris 2024 track cycling competition.

The Azzurri (photo by Simone Ferraro/CONI), fourth in the qualifiers with 3:44.351, were denied a spot in the gold medal final by Australia. The latter’s time of 3:40.730 was enough to beat Italy’s 3:43.205, who went on to compete for bronze against Denmark. At the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome, despite being mostly in a deficit, the Italian team put on a spurt over the final thousand metres to finish with a time of 3:44.197. This pace proved unsustainable for their opponents (3:46.138), who had to settle for fourth place. 

The final victory went to Australia (3:42.067), who got the better of Great Britain (3:44.394) in the gold medal match.