The observe biking occasions on the Paris Olympics start on Monday, August 5 and run all the best way till Sunday, August 11, with the medals within the ladies’s dash being one of many ultimate units determined on the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome outdoors Paris.
Qualifying will get underway for the 34 entrants on Friday, August 9, with the quickest 24 instances in a 200m flying lap time trial heading into successive rounds of the well-known three-lap match sprints, the place the sector will likely be decreased down within the 1/32 and 1/16 finals and repechages.
In the 1/32 part, the highest seeds will face the underside seeds – first towards twenty fourth, second towards twenty third and so forth, earlier than the losers play out the repechage races in threes to determine the 16 riders who undergo. This course of repeats within the 1/16 and 1/8 rounds.
The competitors will resume on Saturday, August 10, for the 1/8 finals and repechages, the place the sector will likely be decreased to simply the highest eight riders to face off in 4 quarterfinals, with the perfect of three match dash rounds resuming.
The semi-finals and medal finals will observe on the ultimate day of observe competitors, the place the gold medal and Olympic Champion will likely be determined after an exciting afternoon of motion on the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines boards.
The struggle for gold ought to see probably the most highly effective and explosive ladies’s cyclists on the planet battle out for the highest spot, with large stares on the beginning line, observe stands, and should-to-shoulder racing all commonplace in one in all Track’s most enjoyable occasions.
Having been launched to the Olympics because the first-ever ladies’s Track biking occasion in Seoul 1988, it’ll be the tenth look of the person dash on the Games.
Women’s dash opponents
- Kristina Clonan (Australia)
- Chloe Moran (Australia)
- Maeve Plouffe (Australia)
- Nicky Degrendele (Belgium)
- Julie Nicolaes (Belgium)
- Lauriane Genest (Canada)
- Kelsey Mitchell (Canada)
- Martha Bayona Pineda (Colombia)
- Stefany Lorena Cuadrado Florez (Colombia)
- Shahd Saaed Mohamed (Egypt)
- Mathilde Gros (France)
- Taky Marie Divine Kouame (France)
- Lea Sophie Friedrich (Germany)
- Pauline Sophie Grabosch (Germany)
- Emma Hinze (Germany)
- Sophie Capewell (Great Britain)
- Emma Finucane (Great Britain)
- Katy Marchant (Great Britain)
- Martina Fidanza (Italy)
- Sara Fiorin (Italy)
- Miriam Vece (Italy)
- Riyu Ohta (Japan)
- Mina Sato (Japan)
- Nurul Izzah Izzati Mohd Asri (Malaysia)
- Luz Daniela Gaxiola Gonzalez (Mexico)
- Yuli Paola Verdugo Osuna (Mexico)
- Hetty van de Wouw (Netherlands)
- Steffie van der Peet (Netherlands)
- Ellesse Andrews (New Zealand)
- Shaane Fulton (New Zealand)
- Shanju Bao (China)
- Liying Yuan (China)
- Marlena Karwacka (Poland)
- Nikola Sibiak (Poland)
Women’s Sprint contenders
There have been eight completely different winners within the 9 earlier competitions, with the Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 200 champion Félicia Ballanger (France) the one rider to win it back-to-back.
Kelsey Mitchell (Canada) returns because the defending Olympic champion, however with out her two fellow podium sitters from Tokyo, as neither Olena Starikova (Ukraine) nor Lee Wai Sze is on the entries record.
While Mitchell will likely be within the operating to be the primary back-to-back winner since Ballanger, she’s been knocked off of the highest spot by a stacked German squad of dash stars and a younger British celebrity.
Emma Finucane (Great Britain) is the younger Brit who heads into Paris 2024 because the reigning World Champion from her house championships in Glasgow final 12 months. Having added the European dash title to her haul in Apeldoorn this previous January, the Welsh rider arrives as the number one ranked rider and an enormous hope for GB to win gold on Olympic debut.
The German trio of medal contenders consists of former World Champions Lea Sophie Friedrich and Emma Hinze, alongside Pauline Grabosch, who has 5 instances been staff dash World Champion on groups containing Hinze and Grabosch.
Home French hopes will lie with 2022 dash World Champion Mathilde Gros and former 500m time trial world champ Marie-Divine Kouamé.
Other nations who will likely be hopeful of a medal embrace New Zealand with reigning keirin World Champion Ellesse Andrews, who took bronze within the dash occasion in Glasgow and Colombia with Martha Bayona, who’s the fourth highest ranked sprinter in observe sprinting.
Women’s Sprint Schedule
- August 9: Qualifying – 14:00 CET
- August 9: 1/32 Finals & Repechages – 14:48 CET
- August 9: 1/16 Finals & Repechages – 19:10 CET
- August 10: 1/8 Finals & Repechages – 17:00 CET
- August 10: Quarterfinals – 19:07 CET
- August 11: Semifinals – 11:22 CET
- August 11: Finals – 12:45 CET