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Cycling at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Men's pursuit B

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Men's individual pursuit B
at the XVII Paralympic Games
VenueVélodrome National
Dates29 August 2024
Competitors32 from 12 nations
Teams16
Winning time3:55.439
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tristan Bangma
Pilot: Patrick Bos
 Netherlands
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Stephen Bate
Pilot: Christopher Latham
 Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lorenzo Bernard
Pilot: Davide Plebani
 Italy
2020
2028

The men's individual pursuit class B track cycling event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics took place on 29 August 2024 at the Vélodrome National. This class is for the cyclist who is blind or has visual impairments, thus they ride tandem bicycles with a sighted cyclist (also known as the pilot). There will be 16 pairs (32 competitors athlete+pilots) from 12 different nations competing.

Competition format

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The competition starts with a qualifying round where a time trial basis will be between the 16 pairs; all 16 pairs will be divided into 8 heats, all heats having 2 pairs. The 2 fastest pairs in the qualifying would qualify to the gold medal final while the 3rd and 4th fastest will qualify to the bronze medal final where they will race head-to-head. The distance of this event is 3000m. The medal finals are also held on the same day as the qualifying.

Schedule

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All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)[1]

Date Time Round
29 August 13:41 Qualifying
16:59 Finals

Results

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Qualifying

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Rank Heat Cyclist Nationality Result[2] Notes
1 8 Tristan Bangma
Pilot: Patrick Bos
 Netherlands 3:55.396 QG, WR
2 7 Stephen Bate
Pilot: Christopher Latham
 Great Britain 3:56.435 QG
3 8 Lorenzo Bernard
Pilot: Davide Plebani
 Italy 4:02.558 QB
4 7 Vincent ter Schure
Pilot: Timo Fransen
 Netherlands 4:04.969 QB
5 6 Alexandre Lloveras
Pilot: Yoann Paillot
 France 4:06.920
6 5 Branden Walton
Pilot: Spencer Seggebruch
 United States 4:10.290
7 6 Damien Vereker
Pilot: Mitchell McLaughlin
 Ireland 4:14.817
8 5 Karol Kopicz
Pilot: Marcin Białobłocki
 Poland 4:19.202
9 3 Maximiliano Gómez
Pilot: Sebastián Tolosa
 Argentina 4:28.087
10 3 Kazuhei Kimura
Pilot: Kiaki Miura
 Japan 4:28.676
11 4 Thomas Ulbricht
Pilot: Robert Förstemann
 Germany 5:21.994
12 2 Martin Gordon
Pilot: Eoin Mullen
 Ireland 5:27.642
13 2 Neil Fachie
Pilot: Matt Rotherham
 Great Britain 5:33.212
14 1 Kane Perris
Pilot: Luke Zaccaria
 Australia 5:42.837
15 4 James Ball
Pilot: Steffan Lloyd
 Great Britain 6:17.368
16 1 Frederick Assor
Pilot: Rudolf Mensah
 Ghana 6:30.071

Finals

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Rank Cyclists Nation Result[3] Notes
Gold medal final
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tristan Bangma
Pilot: Patrick Bos
 Netherlands 3:55.439
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Stephen Bate
Pilot: Christopher Latham
 Great Britain 3:57.652
Bronze medal final
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lorenzo Bernard
Pilot: Davide Plebani
 Italy 4:04.613
4 Vincent ter Schure
Pilot: Timo Fransen
 Netherlands 4:08.267

References

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  1. ^ "Cycling Track – Competition Schedule" (PDF). COJOP. 26 August 2024. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Para Cycling Track – Men's B 4000m Individual Pursuit – Qualifying – Results" (PDF). olympics.com. COJOP. 29 August 2024. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Para Cycling Track – Men's B 4000m Individual Pursuit – Finals – Results" (PDF). olympics.com. COJOP. 29 August 2024. Retrieved 29 August 2024.