Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's road time trial

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Women's road time trial
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Paris2024 - TT - 02 Dygert.jpg
Bronze medallist Chloé Dygert during the race
Venues Pont d'Iéna
Date27 July 2024
Competitors35 from 26 nations
Winning time39:38.24
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Grace Brown Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Silver medal icon.svg Anna Henderson Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain
Bronze medal icon.svg Chloé Dygert Flag of the United States.svg  United States
  2020
2028  

The women's road time trial event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 27 July 2024 on a course starting at 14:30 at Pont d'Iéna in Paris. [1]

Grace Brown, who started the second last, won the race. Anna Henderson won silver, and Chloé Dygert bronze, despite having fallen. For Brown and Henderson these were the first Olympic medals; Dygert has two medals in team pursuit from 2016 and 2020 Olympics, but never medaled before in road cycling. There were numerous falls as the race was completed in very wet conditions. Taylor Knibb of the United States fell from her bike four times.

Background

This was the 7th appearance of the event, held at every Summer Olympics since 1996.

Qualification

Competition format and course

The road time trial was a one-day road race event. The course began at Les Invalides and terminates at the Pont Alexandre III taking in the Bastille in its route. The course is broadly flat, and lasts for 32.4 kilometres. [2]

Start list

Race overview

The reigning Olympic champion Annemiek van Vleuten retired between the two Games. [3] All three medalists from the most recent World championships were entered, including world champion Chloé Dygert, the last rider starting. [2]

Results

RankBib No.Start Time [4] RiderTimeDiff.
Gold medal icon.svg215:19:30Flag of Australia.svg  Grace Brown  (AUS)39:38.24
Silver medal icon.svg415:16:30Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Anna Henderson  (GBR)41:09.83+1:31.59
Bronze medal icon.svg115:21:00Flag of the United States.svg  Chloé Dygert  (USA)41:10.70+1:32.46
4615:13:30Flag of France.svg  Juliette Labous  (FRA)41:19.90+1:41.66
5515:15:00Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Demi Vollering  (NED)41:29.80+1:51.56
6915:09:00Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Lotte Kopecky  (BEL)41:34.82+1:56.58
72114:51:00Flag of New Zealand.svg  Kim Cadzow  (NZL)41:46.02+2:07.78
8815:10:30Flag of Italy.svg  Elisa Longo Borghini  (ITA)41:49.32+2:11.08
91714:57:00Flag of France.svg  Audrey Cordon-Ragot  (FRA)41:51.67+2:13.43
10315:18:00Flag of Austria.svg  Christina Schweinberger  (AUT)41:52.02+2:13.78
111515:00:00Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Ellen van Dijk  (NED)42:21.76+2:43.52
121015:07:30Flag of Poland.svg  Agnieszka Skalniak-Sójka  (POL)42:24.62+2:46.38
132214:49:30Flag of Germany.svg  Mieke Kröger  (GER)42:28.12+2:49.88
141614:58:30Flag of Denmark.svg  Emma Norsgaard  (DEN)42:33.59+2:55.35
151315:03:00Flag of Germany.svg  Antonia Niedermaier  (GER)42:53.79+3:15.55
162614:43:30Flag of Slovenia.svg  Eugenia Bujak  (SLO)42:54.96+3:16.72
171415:01:30Civil Ensign of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Elena Hartmann  (SUI)42:58.90+3:20.66
182914:39:00Flag of Poland.svg  Marta Lach  (POL)43:03.43+3:25.19
192814:40:30Flag of the United States.svg  Taylor Knibb  (USA)43:03.46+3:25.22
202514:45:00Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Olivia Baril  (CAN)43:03.58+3:25.34
212314:48:00Individual Neutral Athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics Flag.svg  Tamara Dronova  (AIN)43:42.16+4:03.92
221914:54:00Flag of Spain.svg  Mireia Benito  (ESP)43:48.10+4:09.86
231215:04:30Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Olga Zabelinskaya  (UZB)43:53.51+4:15.27
243114:36:00Flag of Denmark.svg  Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig  (DEN)44:10.93+4:32.69
25715:12:00Flag of Slovakia.svg  Nora Jenčušová  (SVK)44:22.30+4:44.06
263314:33:00Flag of Afghanistan.svg  Yulduz Hashimi  (AFG)44:29.13+4:50.89
272714:42:00Flag of Ukraine.svg  Yuliia Biriukova  (UKR)44:43.73+5:05.49
283014:37:30Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Julia Kopecký  (CZE)44:53.75+5:15.51
293214:34:30Individual Neutral Athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics Flag.svg  Hanna Tserakh  (AIN)44:57.20+5:18.96
302014:52:30Flag of Finland.svg  Anniina Ahtosalo  (FIN)45:05.18+5:26.94
313514:30:00Flag of Slovenia.svg  Urša Pintar  (SLO)45:07.15+5:28.91
323414:31:30Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Tang Xin  [ de ] (CHN)45:59.44+6:21.20
331115:06:00Flag of Austria.svg  Anna Kiesenhofer  (AUT)46:28.88+6:50.64
341814:55:30Flag of Thailand.svg  Phetdarin Somrat  (THA)47:25.11+7:46.87
352414:46:30Flag of Rwanda.svg  Diane Ingabire  (RWA)48:05.24+8:27.00

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