A complete of 15 nations will participate in two-rider groups for 2024 Olympic Video games glory within the males’s Madison. The competitors takes place on the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome, situated 35km from Paris close to different venues internet hosting mountain biking, BMX racing, equestrian and golf.
Whereas the boys’s Madison has been contested for greater than a century, taking its title from the New York Metropolis venue at which the self-discipline originated, Madison Sq. Backyard, the occasion didn’t make its first look within the Olympic Video games till 2000 in Sydney. After three Olympiads, it was dropped for 2 years, then reinstated on the 2020 Tokyo Video games when the occasion was held for women and men.
The UCI has included the boys’s Madison on the Observe World Championships since 1995, whereas the ladies have competed for the rainbow jersey since 2016.
A profitable Madison staff is set with factors fairly than time, and these factors are amassed over 200 laps (50 kilometres). Sprints are contested each 10 laps, with the highest 4 groups rewarded, and the ultimate lap presents double factors.
Techniques come into play when a staff tries to lap the sector, which earns 20 bonus factors, and any staff that will get lapped then has 20 factors deducted.
However the spectators appear to reply essentially the most to the sequence of choreographed relay exchanges between teammates. Every rider takes a flip being “energetic” on the monitor, whereas the opposite is “inactive” and coasts on the monitor ready for a relay swap, which might be made at any time. Many exchanges are made by teammates gripping fingers after which launching one rider ahead with a ‘handsling’ movement.
Males’s Madison rivals
- Kelland O’Brien (Australia)
- Oliver Bleddyn (Australia)
- Sam Welsford (Australia)
- Maximilian Schmidbauer (Austria)
- Tim Wafler (Austria)
- Lindsay de Vylder (Belgium)
- Robbe Ghys (Belgium)
- Fabio van den Bossche (Belgium)
- Michael Foley (Canada)
- Mathias Guillemette (Canada)
- Denis Rugovac (Czechia)
- Jan Vones (Czechia)
- Michael Mørkøv (Denmark)
- Rasmus Lund Pedersen (Denmark)
- Niklas Larsen (Denmark)
- Thomas Boudat (France)
- Valentin Tabellion (France)
- Benjamin Thomas (France)
- Roger Kluge (Germany)
- Theo Reinhardt (Germany)
- Tobias Buck-Gramcko (Germany)
- Ethan Hayter (Nice Britain)
- Oliver Wooden (Nice Britain)
- Simone Consonni (Italy)
- Elia Viviani (Italy)
- Filippo Ganna (Italy)
- Shunsuke Imamura (Japan)
- Eiya Hashimoto (Japan)
- Kazushige Kuboki (Japan)
- Jan Willem van Schip (Netherlands)
- Yoeri Havik (Netherlands)
- Campbell Stewart (New Zealand)
- Aaron Murray Gate (New Zealand)
- Iuri Leitao (Portugal)
- Rui Filipe Alves Oliveira (Portugal)
- Sebastian Mora Vedri (Spain)
- Albert Torres Barcelo (Spain)
Males’s Madison contenders
The Netherlands is the reigning world champion within the males’s Madison, and the profitable pair of Jan Willem van Schip and Yoeri Havik are the favourites for gold in Paris. They completed fifth in Tokyo, so look to take the primary Olympic gold for the Dutch males within the self-discipline.
Denmark’s Michael Mørkøv received the Olympic gold medal in Tokyo with time triallist Lasse Norman Hansen, and the duo additionally received a pair of world championships. Nonetheless, this time the four-time Olympian Mørkøv will mix his dash pace with both Rasmus Lund Pedersen or Niklas Larsen, so it’s a little bit of an unknown.
Taking silver on the final two World Championsips was Nice Britain, and the profitable pair from 2022 in France will look to go one spot higher on the Olympic Video games – Oliver Wooden and street professional Ethan Hayter. Three years in the past on the Tokyo Video games, it was Hayter and Matthew Partitions who earned silver, which got here to a tie-breaker with the French staff of Benjamin Thomas and Donavan Grondin when each groups scored 40 factors.
The French staff will once more have 2022 Madison world champion Thomas, however he’ll be a part of forces in these Olympic Video games with Thomas Boudat. The duo completed sixth at Worlds final yr.
New Zealand brings veterans Campbell Stewart and Aaron Gate and so they earned the bronze medal on the World Championships final yr by only one level.
Males’s Madison schedule
- August 10: Males’s Madison – 17:59 CET
