Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's cross-country

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Women's cross-country
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Cycling (mountain biking) pictogram.svg
Olympic mountain bike cycling
VenueIzu MTB Course
Date27 July 2021
Competitors38 from 29 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Jolanda Neff Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland
Silver medal icon.svg Sina Frei Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland
Bronze medal icon.svg Linda Indergand Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland
  2016
2024  

The women's cross-country mountain biking event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 27 July 2021 at the Izu MTB Course, Izu, Shizuoka. [1] 38 cyclists from 29 nations were expected to compete, but only 37 did. [2] The race ended in all three medals won by Swiss athletes, the first medal sweep in Olympic cycling history.

Background

This was the 7th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics since mountain bike cycling was added to the programme in 1996.

The reigning Olympic champion was Jenny Rissveds of Sweden, and the reigning (2020) World Champion was Pauline Ferrand-Prévot of France.

A preview by Olympics.com noted the favourites as Rissveds, Kate Courtney of the United States (2018 World Champion and 2019 World Cup series winner), Jolanda Neff and Sina Frei of Switzerland (test event winner and runner-up), and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (2019 & 2020 World Champion). [3]

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 3 qualified cyclists in the cross-country. Quota places are allocated to the NOC, which selects the cyclists. Qualification is primarily through the UCI nation rankings, with 30 of the 38 quota places available through that pathway. The top 2 NOCs earned 3 quota places. NOCs ranked 3rd through 7th earned 2 quota places. NOCs ranked 8th through 21st earned 1 quota places. The second path to qualification was continental tournaments for Africa, the Americas, and Asia; the top NOC at each tournament (which had not already earned a quota place) received 1 place. The third path was the 2019 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. The top 2 NOCs (without a quota place yet) in the Elite category earned a place; the top 2 NOCs in the U-23 category (without a quota, including through the Elite category) also earned a place. The host nation was reserved one place, to be reallocated through the rankings if Japan earned a place normally. [2] Because qualification was complete by the end of the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships on 1 March 2020 (the last event that contributed to the 2018–20 rankings), qualification was unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Competition format

The competition is a mass-start, five-lap race. There is only one round of competition. The mountain bike course is 4.1 kilometres (2.5 mi) long, with sudden changes in elevation, narrow dirt trails, and rocky sections. The vertical height is 150 metres (490 ft). Riders with times 80% slower than the leader's first lap are eliminated. [4] [5]

Start list

Results

Result [6] [7]
Rank#CyclistNationTimeDiff.
Gold medal icon.svg4 Jolanda Neff Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:15:46
Silver medal icon.svg7 Sina Frei Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:16:57+ 1:11
Bronze medal icon.svg19 Linda Indergand Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:17:05+ 1:19
433 Blanka Vas Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:17:55+ 2:09
53 Anne Terpstra Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1:18:21+ 2:35
65 Loana Lecomte Flag of France.svg  France 1:18:43+ 2:57
714 Evie Richards Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 1:19:09+ 3:23
89 Yana Belomoyna Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 1:19:40+ 3:54
915 Haley Batten Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:20:13+ 4:27
101 Pauline Ferrand-Prévot Flag of France.svg  France 1:20:18+ 4:32
1112 Anne Tauber Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1:20:18+ 4:32
1230 Malene Degn Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 1:20:34+ 4:48
1327 Caroline Bohé Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 1:20:57+ 5:11
1411 Jenny Rissveds Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:21:28+ 5:42
156 Kate Courtney Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:22:19+ 6:33
1617 Daniela Campuzano Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 1:22:50+ 7:04
1710 Janika Lõiv Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 1:23:17+ 7:31
1820 Catharine Pendrel Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:23:47+ 8:01
1925 Ronja Eibl Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:23:59+ 8:13
2021 Maja Włoszczowska Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:24:25+ 8:39
2123 Tanja Žakelj Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 1:24:38+ 8:52
2222 Jitka Čábelická Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 1:25:00+ 9:14
2331 Sofía Gómez Villafañe Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 1:25:13+ 9:27
2428 Candice Lill Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1:26:20+ 10:34
258 Eva Lechner Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:26:26+ 10:40
2618 Rocío del Alba García Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 1:26:32+ 10:46
2734 Raquel Queirós Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 1:27:46+ 12:00
282 Rebecca McConnell Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:30:29+ 14:43
2929 Haley Smith Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada -1 LAP
3036 Viktoria Kirsanova Flag placeholder.svg  ROC
3124 Erin Huck Flag of the United States.svg  United States
3226 Elisabeth Brandau Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
3313 Githa Michiels Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium -2 LAP
3438 Yao Bianwa Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
3532 Jaqueline Mourão Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
3637 Michelle Vorster Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia -3 LAP
3735 Miho Imai Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
16 Laura Stigger Flag of Austria.svg  Austria DNF

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