Lizzie Deignan will make her fourth look on the Olympic Games this August, having been named to Team Great Britain for girls’s highway biking together with Pfeiffer Georgi, Anna Henderson and Anna Morris.
The British Olympic Association (BOA) accomplished their roster of 30 riders, 15 ladies and 15 males, which can characterize Team GB on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games throughout 5 biking disciplines, with the ultimate names disclosed Thursday for girls on highway and observe.
On the observe, Elinor Barker will characterize Team GB within the endurance occasions at her third Games, which will likely be held within the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome. Neah Evans and Josie Knight will each return for a second time, and be joined by Olympic debutants Morris and Jess Robert. Team GB seems to enhance from a silver within the ladies’s Team Pursuit earned in Tokyo.
Also among the many first 20 athletes named by the BOA have been the 4 males competing within the highway race – Tom Pidcock, Josh Tarling, Stevie Williams and Fred Wright. Pidcock and Tarling additionally be part of Ethan Hayter on the highway time trial squad.
Additional duties will likely be carried out by Pidcock, as he’ll defend his MTB title from the Tokyo Games in 2021, and Hayter, who is about to be a part of the Team Pursuit.
The Team GB ladies’s Sprint group was introduced two weeks in the past together with the lads’s highway, mountain bike and observe lineups, with reigning particular person Sprint World Champion Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell making their first Olympic appearances alongside the skilled Katy Marchant.
“We’re blessed with an unbelievable depth of expertise and expertise throughout all 5 of the biking disciplines, and I do know that the squad will profit vastly from the likes of Lizzie Deignan and Elinor Barker who will be part of us for his or her fourth and third Games, respectively,” stated Stephen Park CBE, efficiency director for the Great Britain Cycling Team, in a press launch on Thursday.
“Achieving gender parity throughout the squad is one thing we’ve been working in direction of for quite a few years, and I’m vastly pleased with the work our assist employees have accomplished to assist our three mums on the squad, who’re blazing a path for girls on the highest degree of elite sport.”
Deignan is a part of a trio of moms to whom Park referred, in addition to observe athletes Barker and Marchant. The 2015 UCI Road World Champion returned to the peloton final yr after the start of her second baby. Her finest Olympic efficiency was on residence soil in 2012 the place she earned the silver medal within the highway race in London. She completed fifth in Brazil 4 years later and was eleventh within the Tokyo Games.
Henderson is the reigning time trial nationwide champion and can participate in each the highway race and time trial. She competed with Deignan on a nationwide group on the Tour of Britain Women the place the 25-year-old completed second total and Deignan earned the mountains classification title.
Georgi, a three-time highway race nationwide champion, was fourth on the Tour of Britain Women driving for her Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL commerce group. She racked up a handful of high 5 finishes within the Spring Classics, together with third at Paris-Roubaix Femmes.
Anna Morris is a multi-discipline bicycle owner from Wales who will add duties on the observe to her time on the highway in Paris. She was a part of the Great Britain squad with Barker that received the ladies’s Team Pursuit gold medal on the 2023 Track World Championships.
Team GB biking group – MTB, Track, Road
Women’s highway
- Lizzie Deignan
- Pfeiffer Georgi
- Anna Henderson (TT/RR)
- Anna Morris
Women’s mountain bike
- Ella Maclean-Howell
- Evie Richards
Women’s observe endurance
- Elinor Barker
- Neah Evans
- Josie Knight
- Anna Morris
- Jess Roberts
Women’s observe dash
- Sophie Capewell
- Emma Finucane
- Katy Marchant
Men’s highway
- Ethan Hayter (TT)
- Tom Pidcock
- Josh Tarling (TT/RR)
- Stevie Williams
- Fred Wright
Men’s mountain bike
- Charlie Aldridge
- Tom Pidcock
Men’s observe endurance
- Dan Bigham
- Ethan Hayter
- Charlie Tanfield
- Ethan Vernon
- Ollie Wood
Men’s observe dash
- Jack Carlin
- Ed Lowe
- Hamish Turnbull
