Results road race Summer Olympics 2024
1. Remco Evenepoel (bel)
2. Valentin Madouas (fra) + 1.11
3. Christophe Laporte (fra) + 1.16
4. Attila Valter (hun) s.t.
5. Toms Skujins (lat) s.t.
6. Marco Haller (aut) s.t.
7. Stefan Küng (swi) s.t.
8. Jan Tratnik (slo) s.t.
9. Matteo Jorgenson (usa) s.t.
10. Ben Healy (irl) + 1.20
Race report
Eric Manizabayo attacks from the start. Christopher Rougier-Lagane and Thanakhan Chaiyasombat accompany the rider from Rwanda before Charles Kagimu and Achraf Ed Doghmy make it five at the front.
The five open up a lead of 13 minutes. Then, with over 190 kilometres left to race, Elia Viviani, Ryan Mullen, Gleb Syritsa, and Georgios Bouglas attack from the peloton. Syritsa is dropped, while the other three catch the lead group in a 70 kilometres chase.
With 92 kilometres left to race, the lead of the remaining attackers – Viviani, Mullen, Rougier-Lagane, Bouglas, Kagimu – is hovering around 2 minutes when Ben Healy accelerates in the peloton. Alexey Lutsenko chips in, and the two distance the big group.
On the penultimate climb before the circuit, Côte de Bièvres, with 77 kilometres to go, Mullen is alone at the front. His compatriot Healy and Lutsenko rejoin the Irishman just after the summit.
Mullen is dropped on the Côte du Pavé des Gardes, while Valentin Madouas, Nils Politt, Fred Wright, and Michael Woods open the chase in the run-up to the Paris circuit. Stefan Küng, Marco Haller, and Jambaljamts Sainbayar also make it across.
The peloton is over 1 minute adrift when the race enters the circuit.
On the climb in Paris, Côte de la butte Montmartre, Sainbayar is dropped from the chase group. Healy reaches the summit alone, while Mathieu van der Poel attacks from the peloton with Wout van Aert in his wheel. Matteo Jorgenson, Julian Alaphilippe and Toms Skujiņs track them down after the summit.
The attack is neutralised with 38 kilometres remaining, and then it’s Remco Evenepoel who gives it a go. The olympic ITT champion bridges across to the group Küng.
Only Madouas, Küng and Haller remain in Evenepoel’s wheel as they catch Healy.
The lead group tackles the Butte Montmartre again with a 43 seconds lead. Madouas is the only rider who is able to follow Evenepoel on the climb. Van der Poel strikes for a sceond time with Van Aert in his wheel before Jorgenson, Alaphilippe, Laporte, Pedersen, and Matthews bridge across.
Laporte and Jorgenson make the junction to Healy, Haller, and Küng, while a regroupment takes place behind them.
Evenepoel distances Madouas with 15 kilometres to go. He opens such a gap that a puncture within the last 3.5 kilometres doesn’t bother him.
Madouas comes home in second place before Christophe Laporte sprints to the bronze medal.
Other interesting reads: route and start list road race Summer Olympics, Paris 2024.
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