Paris Olympics: Great Britain secure gold and new world record in women’s Team Sprint

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Katy Marchant, Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane of Team Great Britain celebrate as Gold medal winners during the Women’s Team Sprint Finals (Image credit: Getty Images)Britain’s Katy Marchant, Britain’s Sophie Capewell and Britain’s Emma Finucane compete in the women’s track cycling team sprint first round of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines National Velodrome in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, south-west of Paris, on August 5, 2024. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)(Image credit: Getty Images)Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane and Katy Marchant of Team Great Britain compete as they break a New World Record during the Women’s Team Sprint Qualifiers on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 (Image credit: Getty Images)Netherlands’ Kyra Lamberink, Netherlands’ Hetty van de Wouw and Netherlands’ Steffie van der Peet compete in the women’s track cycling team sprint first round of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines National Velodrome in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, south-west of Paris, on August 5, 2024. (Photo by Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)(Image credit: Getty Images)Katy Marchant of Team Great Britain celebrates as Gold medal winner during the Women’s Team Sprint Finals on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024(Image credit: Getty Images)Britain’s Emma Finucane (L) and Britain’s Sophie Capewell compete in the women’s track cycling team sprint final for gold of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (Image credit: Getty Images)Katy Marchant and Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane of Team Great Britain celebrate as Gold medal winners during the Women’s Team Sprint Finals on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024(Image credit: Getty Images)Pauline Grabosch, Emma Hinze and Lea Friedrich of Team Germany celebrates as Bronze medal winners during the Women’s Team Sprint Finals on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 (Image credit: Getty Images)Britain’s Katy Marchant and Britain’s Emma Finucane celebrate winning the women’s track cycling team sprint final of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games(Image credit: Getty Images)Katy Marchant of Team Great Britain celebrates as Gold medal winner during the Women’s Team Sprint Finals on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 (Image credit: Getty Images)

Great Britain win gold

Great Britain’s Katy Marchant, Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell kicked off the Olympic Games track cycling events with the first gold medal in the women’s Team Sprint on Monday.

It was a historic moment for women’s cycling as this year marks the first time that the women race the same distance as the men in every track event.

Great Britain set a new world record of 45.186 in defeating New Zealand’s Rebecca Petch, Shaane Fulton and Ellesse Andrews, a full 0.296 seconds quicker than China’s record that stood before the day.

New Zealand started off quickly with a blistering opening lap, but Capewell carried the momentum set by Marchant and turned a 0.133-second deficit around.

Then, Finucane sealed the deal with a smoothly delivered final lap, besting the Kiwis by 0.473 seconds.

Defending Olympic champions Germany, who won the two-rider, 500-metre Tokyo Team Sprint were not as dominant in the new three-rider format.

However, Lea Friedrich, Pauline Grabosch, and Emma Hinze came around in the bronze medal final to beat the Netherlands’ Kyra Lamberink, Hetty van de Wouw, Steffie van der Peet, setting a time of 45.4.

The British trio were able to celebrate in front of a sizeable partisan crowd, with most of Finucane’s family travelling to Paris from Wales.

“I’m honestly so proud,” Finucane said. “We nailed that ride. I believed in us that we could do it but to execute it like that… I’ve never celebrated like that in my life. It’s so so special and we’ve worked so hard, so to everyone back home, I just want to say a huge thank you. The support has been unreal.”

Marchant, the individual sprint bronze medalist in Rio, was thrilled to overcome her disastrous Tokyo Olympics, where she crashed out of the keirin and was eliminated in the early sprint rounds, and start off the Paris track events with Great Britain’s first gold medal in track cycling of the Games.

“It doesn’t get much better than that,” Marchant said. “It means everything. It just shows the hard work we’ve put in. I always believed there was reward for hard work, we’ve just come together as a team and put so much work into learning how to deliver on the day and we were able to do that today.”

Finucane added that each of the trio have individual events to race as well, and while she is taking each race as it comes, “I just want to take this in and then crack on with the rest of the week. 

“But this gives us a lot of confidence for the rest of the week.”

New Zealand’s Shaane Fulton knew the team came into the competition as underdogs, having been fifth at Worlds last year, and a silver medal and a brief world record was confirmation of the team’s hard work.

“I feel like these three rides today were our best ever. I feel like that was just so amazing for us as a team. People were weren’t watching us as much and we were the underdogs, so I think we just used that and and bought absolutely our A-game.” 

Grabosch, the newcomer to the German team who joined Tokyo medalists Friedrich and Hinze, said the team never lost the focus on going as fast as they could together.

“We had the privilege to have three strong women leading into the new format of the team sprint. So everybody worked hard, everybody [she said, pointing to the British team], as we can see, has three very strong girls at the line. We put the fastest three girls together on the line today.”

Swipe to scroll horizontallyFinal for goldPos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResultGoldGreat Britian 0:00:45.186Row 1 – Cell 0 Sophie Capewell Row 2 – Cell 0 Emma Finucane Row 3 – Cell 0 Katy Marchant Row 4 – Cell 0 Katy Marchant SilverNew Zealand 0:00:45.659Row 6 – Cell 0 Ellesse Andrews Row 7 – Cell 0 Shaane Fulton Row 8 – Cell 0 Rebecca Petch Swipe to scroll horizontallyFinal for BronzePos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResultBronzeGermany 0:00:45.400Row 1 – Cell 0 Lea Friedrich Row 2 – Cell 0 Pauline Grabosch Row 3 – Cell 0 Emma Hinze 4Netherlands 0:00:45.690Row 5 – Cell 0 Kyra Lamberink Row 6 – Cell 0 Hetty van de Wouw Row 7 – Cell 0 Steffie van der Peet Swipe to scroll horizontallyFinal 5-6Pos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResult5Mexico 0:00:46.251Row 1 – Cell 0 Daniela Gaxiola Gonzalez Row 2 – Cell 0 Jessica Salazar Valles Row 3 – Cell 0 Yuli Verdugo Osuna 6China 0:00:46.572Row 5 – Cell 0 Shanju Bao Row 6 – Cell 0 Yufang Guo Row 7 – Cell 0 Liying Yuan Swipe to scroll horizontallyFinal 7-8Pos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResult7Poland 0:00:47.175Row 1 – Cell 0 Marlena Karwacka Row 2 – Cell 0 Urszula Los Row 3 – Cell 0 Nikola Sibiak 8Canada 0:00:47.631Row 5 – Cell 0 Lauriane Genest Row 6 – Cell 0 Kelsey Mitchell Row 7 – Cell 0 Sarah Orban

Great Britain set another world record in First Round

The women’s Team Sprint resumed for the first round with four heats at the velodrome, where a new world record was set three more times.

The Netherlands opened the qualification round in heat 1, beating China with a time of 45.798.

It was during heat 2 that Germany set another new world record in their race against Mexico, with a time of 45.377. New Zealand then came through with another world record during heat 3 against Poland with a time of 45.348.

The world record continued to tumble as Great Britain set the new fastest record of 45.338, beating Canada in heat 4.

The British team of Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane and Katy Marchant had already set a new world record in the event in the qualifications earlier in the day. 

In the Finals, Great Britain qualified for the gold medal round against New Zealand, while Germany qualified for the bronze-medal round against the Netherlands.

Swipe to scroll horizontallyHeat 1Pos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResult1Netherlands 0:00:45.978Row 1 – Cell 0 Kyra Lamberink Row 2 – Cell 0 Hetty van de Wouw Row 3 – Cell 0 Steffie van der Peet 2China 0:00:46.362Row 5 – Cell 0 Shanju Bao Row 6 – Cell 0 Yufang Guo Row 7 – Cell 0 Liying Yuan Swipe to scroll horizontallyHeat 2Pos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResult1Germany 0:00:45.377Row 1 – Cell 0 Lea Friedrich Row 2 – Cell 0 Pauline Grabosch Row 3 – Cell 0 Emma Hinze 2Mexico 0:00:46.198Row 5 – Cell 0 Daniela Gaxiola Gonzalez Row 6 – Cell 0 Jessica Salazar Valles Row 7 – Cell 0 Yuli Verdugo Osuna Swipe to scroll horizontallyHeat 3Pos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResult1New Zealand 0:00:45.348Row 1 – Cell 0 Ellesse Andrews Row 2 – Cell 0 Shaane Fulton Row 3 – Cell 0 Rebecca Petch 2Poland 0:00:47.022Row 5 – Cell 0 Marlena Karwacka Row 6 – Cell 0 Urszula Los Row 7 – Cell 0 Nikola Sibiak Swipe to scroll horizontallyHeat 4Pos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResult1Great Britian 0:00:45.338 (WR)Row 1 – Cell 0 Sophie Capewell Row 2 – Cell 0 Emma Finucane Row 3 – Cell 0 Katy Marchant 2Canada 0:00:46.816Row 5 – Cell 0 Lauriane Genest Row 6 – Cell 0 Kelsey Mitchell Row 7 – Cell 0 Sarah Orban

World record for Great Britain in Qualification

Great Britain set a new World and Olympic record of 45.472 seconds in the women’s team sprint during the qualifying round at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome outside Paris.

In the first Olympic race with three riders and 750 metres of flat-out sprinting for the women, Katy Marchant hit out hard on her first lap, but Sophie Capwell appeared to slip slightly out of turn one, but she recovered quickly. With an extra shot of adrenaline, she closed the gap to the early leaders New Zealand and launched Emma Finucane, who put in a blistering final lap to get past the Kiwis.

New Zealand started as the second team and broke the Olympic record at 45.593 seconds.

The British team will face last-placed qualifiers Canada in the first round, while New Zealand will go up against Poland, who came seventh.

Germany, third, will go head to head with Mexico while the Netherlands will face China, who had to overcome a false start and finished a disappointing fifth.

The quickest two times in the first round will determine who races for the gold medal.

Swipe to scroll horizontallyResultsPos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResult1Great Britian 0:00:45.472Row 1 – Cell 0 Sophie Capewell Row 2 – Cell 0 Emma Finucane Row 3 – Cell 0 Katy Marchant 2New Zealand 0:00:45.593Row 5 – Cell 0 Ellesse Andrews Row 6 – Cell 0 Shaane Fulton Row 7 – Cell 0 Rebecca Petch 3Germany 0:00:45.644Row 9 – Cell 0 Lea Friedrich Row 10 – Cell 0 Pauline Grabosch Row 11 – Cell 0 Emma Hinze 4Netherlands 0:00:46.086Row 13 – Cell 0 Kyra Lamberink Row 14 – Cell 0 Hetty van de Wouw Row 15 – Cell 0 Steffie van der Peet 5China 0:00:46.458Row 17 – Cell 0 Shanju Bao Row 18 – Cell 0 Yufang Guo Row 19 – Cell 0 Liying Yuan 6Mexico 0:00:46.587Row 21 – Cell 0 Daniela Gaxiola Gonzalez Row 22 – Cell 0 Jessica Salazar Valles Row 23 – Cell 0 Yuli Verdugo Osuna 7Poland 0:00:47.284Row 25 – Cell 0 Marlena Karwacka Row 26 – Cell 0 Urszula Los Row 27 – Cell 0 Nikola Sibiak 8Canada 0:00:47.578Row 29 – Cell 0 Lauriane Genest Row 30 – Cell 0 Kelsey Mitchell Row 31 – Cell 0 Sarah Orban

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Publish date : 2024-08-05 19:10:21

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