Ellen van Dijk and Kirsten Wild won the gold medal, Kelly Markus and Amy Pieters took silver and Vera Koedooder and Winanda Spoor won the bronze.
[1][2] Because of the number of teams, there were no qualification rounds for this discipline.
The competition consisted on 100 laps, making a total of 25 km.
Ellen van Dijk and Kirsten Wild, the favourites of the race, won all the intermediate sprints.
After a few round of the madison Amy Pieters attacked, but was pulled back by Van Dijk.