Steven Elm, Arne Dankers and Denny Morrison won the Team Pursuit in Turin. The silver medalists of the Olympics bettered their success then. Italy, with Luca Stefani instead of Sanfratello (he works for RAI tv as speedskating commentator) wasn't so strong and finished third behind Russia (Skobrev, Lalenkov, Yunin).

The Dutch, who won the first TP, now kept Olde Heuvel, Prinsen and Ritsma busy, and finished 8th out of 10. Only Poland and Japan were slower.