The observe biking occasions on the Paris Olympics start on Monday, August 5 with the primary medals being awarded within the girls’s staff dash on the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome exterior Paris.
The day’s racing begins at 11:00 CET with qualifying, the place the eight nations who certified for the ladies’s staff dash will face off towards the clock to be seeded for the primary spherical.
In the primary spherical, the groups are paired off, 1st towards Eighth, 2nd towards seventh, third towards sixth, and 4th towards Fifth. This spherical begins at 12:55 CET.
The groups with one of the best two occasions within the first spherical will compete for the gold and silver medals, whereas the third and fourth quickest winners within the first spherical will compete for the bronze medal, whereas the opposite 4 groups compete for closing inserting Fifth-Eighth. The finals start at 13:46 CET.
The 2024 Olympics marks the primary time that the ladies will compete with three riders, every taking the lead of the staff for one lap for a complete of 750 metres. In earlier Games, the ladies contested the staff dash with two riders over 500 metres.
Women’s Team Sprint rivals
- Canada: Lauriane Genest, Kelsey Mitchell, Sarah Orban
- China: Boa Shanju, Guo Yufang, Yuan Liying
- Great Britain: Katy Marchant, Emma Finucane, Sophie Capewell
- Germany: Lea Friedrich, Pauline Grabosch, Emma Hinze
- Mexico: Luz Daniela Gaxiola Gonzalez, Jessica Salazar Valles, Yuli Paola Verdugo Osuna
- Netherlands: Kyra Lamberink, Hetty van de Wouw, Steffie van der Peet
- New Zealand: Ellesse Andrews, Shaane Fulton, Rebecca Petch
- Poland: Marlena Karwacka, Ios Urszula, Nikola Sibiak
Women’s Team Sprint contenders
Germany have been the highest staff within the girls’s staff dash since taking silver to China on the Olympics in Tokyo. At the UCI World Championships in Glasgow final yr, Emma Hinze, Lea Friedrich and Pauline Grabosch set the world file for the 750 metre girls’s staff dash in taking their fourth straight world title on this occasion.
Great Britain have been the highest performers through the Nations Cup over the previous yr, making big strides as Lauren Bell, Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell excellent their approach and timing. However, Bell was injured in February in a beginning gate incident on the Nations Cup in Adelaide and missed being chosen for the Olympics. The extra skilled Katy Marchant will seem within the staff in Paris, as an alternative.
China’s Bao Shanju, Guo Yufang and Yuan Liying will undoubtedly be fierce rivals as defending champions, however fell behind Great Britain at Worlds after taking silver in 2022.
Schedule
- August 5: 11:00 – Women’s Team Sprint Qualifying
- August 5: 12:55 – Women’s Team Sprint, First Round
- August 5: 13:46 – Women’s Team Sprint Finals
