The Colombian Biking Federation introduced their biking staff for the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris, naming Daniel Martínez (Bora-Hansgrohe) for the time trial and street race and Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) for the street race solely. The federation chosen Paula Patiño (Movistar) for the only real entry for the ladies’s street 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 12 months.
Bernal is at the moment third general on the Tour de Suisse and completed third general 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 had been teammates with Ineos earlier than Martínez moved to Bora-Hansgrohe this season.
Whereas Patiño represented Colombia within the Tokyo Olympics, it is going to be an Olympic debut for each Bernal and Martínez.
“The standards taken into consideration for the election of Paula, Daniel and Egan had 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 Nationwide Highway 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 acknowledged.
“Paula Patiño, who belongs to the Spanish Movistar Group, and who has simply gained the Nationwide Highway Championship title this season, competed within the final Olympic Video games in Tokyo 2020, the place she positioned twenty second within the occasion, this being the most effective Olympic efficiency in ladies’s street for our nation in historical past.”
The nation additionally introduced its staff for the observe and mountain bike occasions, asserting the shock return of sprinter Fernando Gaviria to the velodrome. The Movistar rider final raced observe on a global stage in 2016 when he gained 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 Dash, whereas Martha Bayonne and Stefany Cuadrado will compete within the ladies’s Keirin and Dash.
Diego Alfonso Arias Cuervo will symbolize Colombia within the males’s Cross Nation MTB occasion on July 28 at Elancourt Hill outdoors Paris.
