The best profile occasion of the Olympic Video games monitor biking is the staff pursuit, which girls have competed in since 2012. Nice Britain gained the primary two Olympic golds in London and Rio de Janeiro.
Ten nations will race for the medals within the girls’s staff pursuit. The competitors begins with a qualifying spherical with every staff attempting to set the quickest time towards the primary spherical. Nevertheless, solely the highest 4 groups can compete for the medals.
Within the first spherical, two groups go face to face, beginning on reverse sides of the monitor. The quickest qualifying staff faces fourth finest, second in opposition to third. The winners of those two heats go onto the gold medal ultimate.
There may be nonetheless hope for a medal if a staff lands outdoors of the highest 4, nevertheless. The 2 groups with the quickest time aside from the groups making the gold medal spherical will compete for the bronze medal.
The opposite groups compete for the minor placings primarily based upon their first spherical outcomes. The subsequent two quickest groups will race for fifth and sixth place and the final two groups for seventh and eighth.
Girls’s Staff Pursuit rivals
- Australia: Georgia Baker, Sophie Edwards, Alexandra Manly, Chloe Moran, Maeve Plouffe
- Canada: Erin Attwell, Ariane Bonhomme, Maggie Coles-Lyster, Sarah van Dam,
- France: Victoire Berteau, Marion Borras, Clara Copponi, Valentine Fortin, Marie le Web
- Germany: Franziska Brausse, Lisa Klein, Mieke Kroeger, Laura Süßemilch
- Nice Britain: Elinor Barker, Neah Evans, Josie Knight, Anna Morris, Jessica Roberts
- Eire: Lara Gillespie, Mia Griffin, Kelly Murphy, Alice Sharpe
- Italy: Elisa Balsamo, Chiara Consonni, Martina Fidanza, Vittoria Guazzini, Letizia Paternoster
- Japan: Mizuki Ikeda, Yumi Kajihara, Maho Kakita, Tsuyaka Uchino,
- New Zealand: Bryony Botha, Emily Shearman, Nicole Shields, Ally Wollaston
- United States: Olivia Cummins, Chloe Dygert, Kristen Faulkner, Jennifer Valente, Lily Williams
Girls’s Staff Pursuit Contenders
Since their early domination within the staff pursuit, Nice Britain have needed to rebuild because the retirement of motors Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell. They got here second to Germany within the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 however returned to the highest spot on the World Championships in Glasgow final 12 months.
Germany, who gained the final Olympics staff pursuit in Tokyo and the World title in 2021 are again in constructing mode after Lisa Brennauer retired, and have not had the identical stage of outcomes on the worldwide stage in over a 12 months.
The construct as much as the Paris Olympics for Nice Britain got here off the rails a bit when Katie Archibald injured her leg in a freak accident earlier this 12 months. She was key to the staff’s latest titles however won’t be competing within the staff pursuit. The British staff are nonetheless among the many favourites, having gone toe-to-toe with their rivals with out Archibald within the preliminary spherical at Worlds.
New Zealand, Italy, France and Australia are the highest rivals for Nice Britain, however keep watch over the USA, who’ve been constructing a brand new quartet with incoming energy rider Kristin Faulkner.
Girls’s Staff Pursuit schedule
- August 6: Girls’s Staff Pursuit Qualifying – 11:30 CET
- August 7: Girls’s Staff Pursuit First Spherical – 7:52 CET
- August 7: Girls’s Staff Pursuit Finals – 12:57 CET
