Courting again greater than 125 years, the Madison was named for the venue at which the self-discipline originated, Madison Sq. Backyard in New York. Nonetheless, the historical past of the ladies’s Madison on the Olympic Video games could be very younger, making a debut on the Tokyo Olympic Video games simply three years in the past.
Nice Britain’s Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny etched their names within the historical past books as the primary girls to win the gold within the Madison.
The rostrum can have a brand new have a look at this Olympiad, because the legendary Nice Britain duo of Archibald and Kenny usually are not in Paris. Archibald, who would have taken half in her third Video games, suffered two fractures to 1 leg in a fall in her backyard at residence in late June. Kenny retired from biking this spring. She had gained 5 gold medals and one silver throughout three Olympic Video games, plus seven monitor world titles.
The sling-shot exchanges by every two-rider crew make the orchestrated chaos of the Madison a fan favorite. The crew with essentially the most factors wins after 120 laps (30 kilometres) for the ladies. Factors are earned in intermediate sprints all through the race and by lapping the sphere.
Every rider takes a flip being “energetic” on the monitor. The “inactive” rider coasts at a slower tempo on the higher financial institution of the monitor till a relay swap is made. Usually, this thrilling change is made by teammates gripping fingers after which launching the one rider ahead. This change can occur wherever on the monitor and as usually as they need.
Ladies’s Madison rivals
- Georgia Baker (Australia)
- Aleandra Manly (Australia)
- Chloe Moran (Australia)
- Katrijn de Clercq (Belgium)
- Helene Hesters (Belgium)
- Lotte Kopecky (Belgium)
- Ariane Bonhomme (Canada)
- Maggie Coles-Lyster (Canada)
- Amalie Dideriksen (Denmark)
- Julie Norman Leth (Denmark)
- Marion Borras (France)
- Clara Copponi (France)
- Valentine Fortin (France)
- Franziska Brausse (Germany)
- Lisa Klein (Germany)
- Laura Suessemilch (Germany)
- Elinor Barker (Nice Britain)
- Neah Evans (Nice Britain)
- Lara Gillespie (Eire)
- Mia Griffin (Eire)
- Alice Sharpe (Eire)
- Elisa Balsamo (Italy)
- Vittoria Guazzini (Italy)
- Chiara Consonni (Italy)
- Maho Kakita (Japan)
- Mizuki Ikeda (Japan)
- Tsuyaka Uchino (Japan)
- Lisa van Belle (Netherlands)
- Maike van der Duin (Netherlands)
- Bryony Botha (New Zealand)
- Emily Shearman (New Zealand)
- Daria Pikulik (Poland)
- Wiktoria Pikulik (Poland)
- Michelle Andres (Switzerland)
- Aline Seitz (Switzerland)
- Jennifer Valente (United States of America)
- Lily Williams (United States of America)
Ladies’s Madison contenders
Nice Britain remains to be the crew to beat within the girls’s Madison, as Staff GB will include reigning world champions Neah Evans alongside Elinor Barker. Each gained silver medals in Tokyo in Staff Pursuit, whereas Barker additionally has a gold from Staff Pursuit within the Rio Video games. The 2 simply gained the latest Madison contest on the Nation’s Cup contest in Milton, Ontario.
The house crew has been on prime type this 12 months, with Valentine Fortin and Marion Borras main France to silver medals on the final two Nations Cup competitions, each instances ending behind Nice Britain.
Australia will likely be a contender, with Georgia Baker and Alexandra Manly convey firepower. The 2 rode to silver on the Glasgow World Championships final 12 months, and on the opening Nations Cup race in Adelaide, they completed second. Baker makes her third Olympic look whereas Manly a second. Within the Madison finals in Tokyo, Baker rode with Annette Edmondson for seventh place.
Denmark brings their silver medallists from the Tokyo Video games for an opportunity to safe one other medal – Amalie Dideriksen and Julie Leth. Two years in the past, on the World Championships in France, they completed third.
Ladies’s Madison schedule
- August 9: Ladies’s Madison – 18:09 CET
