Paris 2024: Tom Pidcock, Emma Finucane and Ethan Hayter among first GB riders selected for Olympic Games cycling squad
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Published 24/06/2024 at 15:10 GMT
The British Olympic Association has named the first 20 cyclists who will represent Team GB at Paris 2024. Performance Director for the Great Britain Cycling Team, Stephen Park, said: "I am delighted for each and every one of the riders we have announced today to represent Team GB in Paris and have no doubt that they will make the nation proud over the 18 days of cycling competition in Paris."
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The British Olympic Association (BOA) has named the first 20 cyclists who will represent Team GB at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The 20 athletes selected include four Olympic medallists and 10 debutants from track, road and mountain bike disciplines, with a further six squads to be announced in early July.
This will be the biggest cycling delegation ever sent to an Olympic Games, as the team prepares to ride for medals across all five event disciplines.
A strong qualifying campaign resulted in Team GB qualifying for two women’s and two men’s spots in the mountain bike events for the first time.
Commonwealth champion Evie Richards will contest the women’s title having made a confident recovery from a recent injury, while rising star Ella Maclean-Howell will make her first appearance at Olympic level.
Another Games debutant will be current under-23 world champion Charlie Aldridge, who will be joined by current Olympic and world champion Tom Pidcock, who has his sights set on two targets in Paris, as a member of both the mountain bike and road teams.
Alongside Pidcock in the road race will be 2023 national road champion Fred Wright, Stevie Williams and Josh Tarling, who all make their Olympic debut.
After a string of blistering time-trial performances, including a European title and a world championship bronze medal, Tarling will also be aiming to make his mark in the time-trial event, as well as Ethan Hayter, who will later transfer to the men’s track endurance squad.
The final week of the cycling competition will see the action head to the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome where Hayter will look to add more Olympic hardware to his collection as part of the five-strong men’s endurance team.
He joins Ollie Wood, Charlie Tanfield, Ethan Vernon and debutant Dan Bigham, in what is set to be a fiercely-contested men’s team pursuit event.
The women’s sprint trio head to Paris having qualified a team sprint squad for the first time since London 2012.
Katy Marchant leads the team into her third Olympic Games, while World and European individual sprint champion Emma Finucane and teammate Sophie Capewell will make their Olympic debuts on the boards.
Tokyo silver and bronze medallist Jack Carlin heads up the men’s sprint squad for his second Games, alongside debutants Hamish Turnbull and 20-year-old Ed Lowe.
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Riders selected in the BMX racing, BMX freestyle park, women’s endurance and women’s road will be announced on Thursday, July 4, to complete the Team GB cycling squad.
Team GB Chef de Mission, Mark England MBE, said: “Team GB has a rich tradition with Olympic cycling, and I am thrilled that we will be taking our largest ever cycling team to Paris.
“It is very exciting to see the next generation of cyclists selected to compete for Team GB in Paris, alongside some of our seasoned Olympians and Olympic medalists in Katy, Tom, Ethan and Jack.
“I am fully confident that all the athletes selected today will put in some fantastic performances this summer.”
Performance Director for the Great Britain Cycling Team, Stephen Park CBE, said: “I am delighted for each and every one of the riders we have announced today to represent Team GB in Paris and have no doubt that they will make the nation proud over the 18 days of cycling competition in Paris.
“We’re blessed with an incredibly talented, passionate and hungry squad of riders, and we are now fully focused on supporting their final preparations so that they can be at their very best come Paris.”
Team GB cycling team
Men’s mountain bike
- Charlie Aldridge
- Tom Pidcock
Women’s mountain bike
- Ella Maclean-Howell
- Evie Richards
Men’s road
- Ethan Hayter (TT)
- Tom Pidcock
- Josh Tarling (TT/RR)
- Stevie Williams
- Fred Wright
Men’s track endurance
- Dan Bigham
- Ethan Hayter
- Charlie Tanfield
- Ethan Vernon
- Ollie Wood
- Mark Stewart (travelling reserve)
Men’s track sprint
- Jack Carlin
- Ed Lowe
- Hamish Turnbull
- Joe Truman (travelling reserve)
Women’s track sprint
- Sophie Capewell
- Emma Finucane
- Katy Marchant
- Lowri Thomas (travelling reserve)
BMX Racing, BMX Freestyle Park, Women's track endurance and Women's Road selections will be announced on July 4.
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