Lizzie Deignan will make her fourth look on the Olympic Video games this August, having been named to Group Nice Britain for girls’s street biking together with Pfeiffer Georgi, Anna Henderson and Anna Morris.
The British Olympic Affiliation (BOA) accomplished their roster of 30 riders, 15 ladies and 15 males, which is able to characterize Group GB on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games throughout 5 biking disciplines, with the ultimate names disclosed Thursday for girls on street and monitor.
On the monitor, Elinor Barker will characterize Group GB within the endurance occasions at her third Video games, which can 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. Group GB appears to be like to enhance from a silver within the ladies’s Group Pursuit earned in Tokyo.
Additionally among the many first 20 athletes named by the BOA have been the 4 males competing within the street race – Tom Pidcock, Josh Tarling, Stevie Williams and Fred Wright. Pidcock and Tarling additionally be a part of Ethan Hayter on the street time trial squad.
Further duties can be carried out by Pidcock, as he’ll defend his MTB title from the Tokyo Video games in 2021, and Hayter, who is about to be a part of the Group Pursuit.
The Group GB ladies’s Dash staff was introduced two weeks in the past together with the lads’s street, mountain bike and monitor lineups, with reigning particular person Dash 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 massively from the likes of Lizzie Deignan and Elinor Barker who will be a part of us for his or her fourth and third Video games, respectively,” stated Stephen Park CBE, efficiency director for the Nice Britain Biking Group, in a press launch on Thursday.
“Attaining gender parity throughout the squad is one thing we’ve been working in direction of for quite a few years, and I’m massively happy with the work our help employees have completed to help 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 monitor athletes Barker and Marchant. The 2015 UCI Highway World Champion returned to the peloton final yr after the start of her second youngster. Her greatest Olympic efficiency was on dwelling soil in 2012 the place she earned the silver medal within the street race in London. She completed fifth in Brazil 4 years later and was eleventh within the Tokyo Video games.
Henderson is the reigning time trial nationwide champion and can participate in each the street race and time trial. She competed with Deignan on a nationwide staff on the Tour of Britain Ladies the place the 25-year-old completed second total and Deignan earned the mountains classification title.
Georgi, a three-time street race nationwide champion, was fourth on the Tour of Britain Ladies using for her Group DSM-Firmenich PostNL commerce staff. 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 bike owner from Wales who will add duties on the monitor to her time on the street in Paris. She was a part of the Nice Britain squad with Barker that received the ladies’s Group Pursuit gold medal on the 2023 Observe World Championships.
Group GB biking staff – MTB, Observe, Highway
Ladies’s street
- Lizzie Deignan
- Pfeiffer Georgi
- Anna Henderson (TT/RR)
- Anna Morris
Ladies’s mountain bike
- Ella Maclean-Howell
- Evie Richards
Ladies’s monitor endurance
- Elinor Barker
- Neah Evans
- Josie Knight
- Anna Morris
- Jess Roberts
Ladies’s monitor dash
- Sophie Capewell
- Emma Finucane
- Katy Marchant
Males’s street
- Ethan Hayter (TT)
- Tom Pidcock
- Josh Tarling (TT/RR)
- Stevie Williams
- Fred Wright
Males’s mountain bike
- Charlie Aldridge
- Tom Pidcock
Males’s monitor endurance
- Dan Bigham
- Ethan Hayter
- Charlie Tanfield
- Ethan Vernon
- Ollie Wooden
Males’s monitor dash
- Jack Carlin
- Ed Lowe
- Hamish Turnbull
