The Colombian Cycling Federation introduced their biking workforce for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, naming Daniel Martínez (Bora-Hansgrohe) for the time trial and highway race and Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) for the highway race solely. The federation chosen Paula Patiño (Movistar) for the only real entry for the ladies’s highway race.
The inclusion of Giro d’Italia runner-up Martínez, the reigning Colombian time trial champion, was not a lot of a shock, however Bernal’s presence on the roster represents the nation’s religion that he has overcome the intense accidents from his crash in 2022 which have plagued his efficiency till this yr.
Bernal is presently third total on the Tour de Suisse and completed third total within the Volta a Catalunya and O Gran Camiño earlier this season. He additionally has a restricted historical past of performances in one-day races, taking third in Il Lombardia in 2019 behind compatriot Esteban Chaves.
Bernal and Martínez have been teammates with Ineos earlier than Martínez moved to Bora-Hansgrohe this season.
While Patiño represented Colombia within the Tokyo Olympics, will probably be an Olympic debut for each Bernal and Martínez.
“The standards taken under consideration for the election of Paula, Daniel and Egan have been associated, amongst others, with the technical evaluation of the UCI rating within the final two years, previous to Paris 2024; the participations within the main races of the WorldTour circuit in each branches within the 2023 and 2024 seasons; the outcomes obtained within the elite National Road Championships within the 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 seasons, and the technical evaluation of the routes through which the competitions will happen within the French capital,” the announcement said.
“Paula Patiño, who belongs to the Spanish Movistar Team, and who has simply received the National Road Championship title this season, competed within the final Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020, the place she positioned twenty second within the occasion, this being the most effective Olympic efficiency in ladies’s highway for our nation in historical past.”
The nation additionally introduced its workforce for the monitor and mountain bike occasions, asserting the shock return of sprinter Fernando Gaviria to the velodrome. The Movistar rider final raced monitor on a world degree in 2016 when he received his second world title within the Omnium and positioned fourth in the identical occasion on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Colombia certified two positions for the person dash and Keirin and one for the Omnium, which Gaviria will fill.
Kevin Quintero and Cristian Ortega will compete within the Keirin and Sprint, whereas Martha Bayonne and Stefany Cuadrado will compete within the ladies’s Keirin and Sprint.
Diego Alfonso Arias Cuervo will characterize Colombia within the males’s Cross Country MTB occasion on July 28 at Elancourt Hill exterior Paris.
