Women's cross-country
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Olympic mountain bike cycling
VenueIzu MTB Course
Date27 July 2021
Competitors38 from 29 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jolanda Neff  Switzerland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sina Frei  Switzerland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Linda Indergand  Switzerland

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 # Cyclist Nation Time Diff.
1st place, gold medalist(s)4Jolanda Neff Switzerland1:15:46
2nd place, silver medalist(s)7Sina Frei Switzerland1:16:57+ 1:11
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)19Linda Indergand Switzerland1:17:05+ 1:19
433Blanka Vas Hungary1:17:55+ 2:09
53Anne Terpstra Netherlands1:18:21+ 2:35
65Loana Lecomte France1:18:43+ 2:57
714Evie Richards Great Britain1:19:09+ 3:23
89Yana Belomoyna Ukraine1:19:40+ 3:54
915Haley Batten United States1:20:13+ 4:27
101Pauline Ferrand-Prévot France1:20:18+ 4:32
1112Anne Tauber Netherlands1:20:18+ 4:32
1230Malene Degn Denmark1:20:34+ 4:48
1327Caroline Bohé Denmark1:20:57+ 5:11
1411Jenny Rissveds Sweden1:21:28+ 5:42
156Kate Courtney United States1:22:19+ 6:33
1617Daniela Campuzano Mexico1:22:50+ 7:04
1710Janika Lõiv Estonia1:23:17+ 7:31
1820Catharine Pendrel Canada1:23:47+ 8:01
1925Ronja Eibl Germany1:23:59+ 8:13
2021Maja Włoszczowska Poland1:24:25+ 8:39
2123Tanja Žakelj Slovenia1:24:38+ 8:52
2222Jitka Čábelická Czech Republic1:25:00+ 9:14
2331Sofía Gómez Villafañe Argentina1:25:13+ 9:27
2428Candice Lill South Africa1:26:20+ 10:34
258Eva Lechner Italy1:26:26+ 10:40
2618Rocío del Alba García Spain1:26:32+ 10:46
2734Raquel Queirós Portugal1:27:46+ 12:00
282Rebecca McConnell Australia1:30:29+ 14:43
2929Haley Smith Canada—-1 LAP
3036Viktoria Kirsanova ROC—
3124Erin Huck United States—
3226Elisabeth Brandau Germany—
3313Githa Michiels Belgium—-2 LAP
3438Yao Bianwa China—
3532Jaqueline Mourão Brazil—
3637Michelle Vorster Namibia—-3 LAP
3735Miho Imai Japan—
—16Laura Stigger AustriaDNF

References

  1. ↑ "Cycling Mountain Bike Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 28 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Cycling Mountain Bike" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  3. ↑ "Cycling Mountain Bike". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  4. ↑ "UCI CYCLING REGULATIONS PART 3 TRACK RACES" (PDF). UCI. 6 December 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  5. ↑ Liam Nee (26 March 2021). "Cycling 101: Competition format". NBC. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  6. ↑ "Results" (PDF). 2020 Summer Olympics. Omega SA. 27 July 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "Race Analysis" (PDF). 2020 Summer Olympics. Omega SA. 26 July 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
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