Nice Britain has certified a full observe biking squad for the Paris Olympics this summer season.
The ultimate qualification rankings had been confirmed on Tuesday by the UCI, with GB assembly the quota standards in each occasion.
Consequently, 14 British riders, seven per gender, will journey to Paris, France in August to compete on the Video games. The squad will even be allowed to tug in a single male and one feminine athlete from one other biking self-discipline, corresponding to highway, mountain bike or BMX, which means as much as 16 athletes will experience on the observe.
It’s the first time GB might be current in each observe occasion since London 2012, having failed to satisfy the qualification necessities for the ladies’s workforce dash at each Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.
With no extra main observe competitions remaining earlier than the Olympics, the GB coaches will now choose the riders to compete in Paris. The total squad, containing further reserve riders, is predicted to be introduced close to the top of June.
There are six observe biking medal occasions on the Olympics for each the women and men: three dash occasions (workforce dash, particular person dash and keirin) and three endurance occasions (workforce pursuit, Madison and Omnium).
The qualification standards drew on factors gathered on the 2023 UCI Monitor World Championships, the final two Continental Championships, and the perfect two outcomes from UCI Nations Cup rounds in 2023 and 2024.
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To qualify within the dash occasions, GB needed to rank within the prime eight nations within the workforce dash. The ladies’s squad, who gained the opening two Nations Cup rounds this yr, certified second, behind the world champions Germany. The lads’s squad certified fifth.
Two of the three workforce dash riders in every gender might be chosen for the person dash and keirin.
The lads’s workforce pursuit squad gained the European title in January.
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Within the endurance occasions, GB needed to qualify among the many prime 10 nations within the workforce pursuit, granting them locations within the Madison and Omnium as effectively.
The lads’s workforce pursuit squad, having crashed out of final yr’s World Championships, certified seventh, due to gold medals on the European Championships and two of this yr’s Nations Cups. The ladies’s workforce pursuit squad had a extra assured qualifying interval, rating second general, behind New Zealand.
The UCI will now affirm the ultimate quota locations in writing to every of the nations. The total Olympic observe rankings will be discovered on the governing physique’s web site.
The observe biking occasions on the Paris Olympics will happen between 5-11 August on the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome, southwest of the town.
