Lizzie Deignan has been selected for Team Great Britain in cycling women's road along with Pfeiffer Gheorghi, Anna Henderson and Anna Morris and will compete in her fourth Olympic Games this August.
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has completed the registration of 30 athletes, 15 women and 15 men, to represent Team GB in five cycling events at the 2024 Paris Olympics, with the final names for road and track women announced on Thursday.
On the track, Elinor Barker will represent Team GB in the endurance event at the third edition of the competition in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome. Nia Evans and Josie Knight will be competing for the second time and will be joined by Olympic debutants Morris and Jess Roberts. Team GB will be looking to build on the silver medal in women's team pursuit they won in Tokyo.
Also among the first 20 athletes selected by the BOA are four men competing in the road race, Tom Pidcock, Josh Tarling, Stevie Williams, and Fred Wright. Pidcock and Tarling will compete in the road time trial along with Ethan Hayter. Pidcock will defend his MTB title in Tokyo 2021, while Hayter will be part of Team Pursuit.
Team GB's women's sprint team was announced two weeks ago, along with men's road, mountain bike, and track, and individual sprint world champions Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell will be making their first Olympic appearance alongside the experienced Katie Marchant.
"We are blessed with an incredible wealth of talent and experience in all five disciplines of cycling, and we know that the athletes will benefit greatly from the likes of Lizzie Daynihan and Elinor Barker, who are competing for the fourth and third time respectively," said British Cycling Stephen Park CBE, performance director of the competition team, said in a press release Thursday.
"We are very proud of the commitment of our support staff to help these three mom athletes who are blazing a trail for women at the pinnacle of elite sport.
Dignan is one of the three mothers Park pointed out, as are track athletes Barker and Marchand. 2015 UCI Road World Champion Dignan returned to the peloton last year after the birth of her second child. Her best Olympic result was a silver medal in the 2012 road race in London; four years later, she finished fifth in Brazil and 11th in Tokyo.
Henderson is a national time trial champion and competes in both road races and time trials. She competed with Degnan on the Tour of Britain women's national team, where the 25-year-old finished second overall and Degnan won the mountains title.
Georgi is a three-time national road race champion and placed fourth in the Tour of Britain women's race with Team DSM-Filmenig Post NL. She also had top-five finishes in the spring classics, including third place at Paris-Roubaix Femme.
Anna Morris is a Welsh cyclist who competes on the road as well as on the track in Paris. She won gold in the women's team pursuit at the 2023 track world championships as part of the British team with Barker.
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