Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's omnium

The women's omnium event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 8 August 2021 at the Izu Velodrome. 21 cyclists from 21 nations competed.

Jennifer Valente took the gold medal, edging reigning World champion Yumi Kajihara, who won silver. This was the first women's track cycling gold medal for the United States.

As the last final held during the 2020 Summer Olympics, the medals were presented by Yasuhiro Yamashita, IOC member, Olympian, 1 Gold Medal, Japan; and the medalists' bouquets were presented by David Lappartient, President of the UCI, France.

Background This will be the third appearance of the event, which was introduced in 2012.

The reigning Olympic champion was Laura Kenny of Great Britain, who has won both prior Olympic events. The reigning (2020) World Champion was Yumi Kajihara of Japan.

Russia, Germany, China, Great Britain, Australia, and the Netherlands are traditionally strong track cycling nations.

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 1 cyclist in the omnium. Quota places are allocated to the NOC, which selects the cyclists. Qualification is entirely through the 2018–20 UCI nation rankings. The best 8 NOCs in the madison rankings (not already qualified through the team pursuit) directly qualified to enter madison teams as well as earning 1 quota place in the omnium. There were another 13 places in the omnium available based on the omnium rankings; NOCs qualified through the madison were not eligible. Each continent was guaranteed at least one place in the omnium. 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 An omnium is a multiple-race event, and the current event features four different types of races.

The format has changed significantly from 2016, with three of the six race types dropped and one new type added, while the omnium also moved from a two-day format in prior Games to a one-day format in 2020.

The winner of the omnium is the cyclist who obtains the most points through the four races. The winner of each of the first three races earns 40 points, the second-place cyclist earns 38, the third-place rider 36, and so forth, and the final race has special scoring rules. The races in the omnium are:

Scratch race: Mass start race; first to finish is the winner. Distance is 7.5 km (30 laps). Tempo race: The new race for 2020, the distance is 7.5 km (30 laps). After the first five laps, the winner of each lap earns one point, and lapping the field earns 20 points. The winner of the race is the cyclist with the most points (the points earned within the tempo race do not count for the omnium total: they are used only to place cyclists for this race). Elimination race: Every two laps, the last-place cyclist is eliminated. Points race: A 20 km (80 lap) points race, with points earned for sprints (5/3/2/1, every 10 laps, with double points for the final sprint) and for lapping the field (20 points).

There is only one round of competition.

Schedule All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Date Time Round 8 August 2021 10:0010:4511:2612:25 Scratch raceTempo raceElimination racePoints race

Results Scratch race Rank Cyclist Nation Laps down Event points 1 Jennifer Valente 40 2 Yumi Kajihara 38 3 Annette Edmondson 36 4 Anita Stenberg 34 5 Kirsten Wild 32 6 Maria Martins 30 7 Allison Beveridge 28 8 Amalie Dideriksen 26 9 Holly Edmondston 24 10 Liu Jiali 22 11 Tatsiana Sharakova 20 12 Maria Novolodskaya 1813 Lotte Kopecky DNF 16Laura Kenny Elisa Balsamo Daria Pikulik Clara Copponi Olivija Baleišytė Ebtissam Mohamed Emily Kay Pang Yao

Tempo race Rank Name Nation Race points Event points 1 Laura Kenny 7 40 2 Kirsten Wild 3 38 3 Jennifer Valente 3 36 4 Anita Stenberg 1 34 5 Yumi Kajihara 1 32 6 Amalie Dideriksen 1 30 7 Liu Jiali 0 28 8 Maria Martins 0 26 9 Clara Copponi 24 10 Elisa Balsamo 22 11 Allison Beveridge 20 12 Annette Edmondson 18 13 Emily Kay 16 14 Holly Edmondston 14 15 Tatsiana Sharakova 12 16 Maria Novolodskaya 10 17 Olivija Baleišytė 8 18 Ebtissam Mohamed 6 19 Pang Yao 4 Lotte Kopecky DNF 0Daria Pikulik

Elimination race Rank Name Nation Event points 1 Clara Copponi 40 2 Yumi Kajihara 38 3 Amalie Dideriksen 36 4 Jennifer Valente 34 5 Maria Martins 32 6 Olivija Baleišytė 30 7 Allison Beveridge 28 8 Anita Stenberg 26 9 Emily Kay 24 10 Holly Edmondston 22 11 Kirsten Wild 20 12 Maria Novolodskaya 18 13 Laura Kenny 16 14 Liu Jiali 14 15 Elisa Balsamo 12 16 Pang Yao 10 17 Ebtissam Mohamed 8 18 Annette Edmondson 6 19 Tatsiana Sharakova 4

Points race and final standings Rank Name Nation Subtotal Sprint points Lap points Finish order Total points Jennifer Valente 40 36 34 110 14 0 2 124 Yumi Kajihara 38 32 38 108 2 0 11 110 Kirsten Wild 32 38 20 90 18 0 3 108 4 Amalie Dideriksen 26 30 36 92 11 0 16 103 5 Anita Stenberg 34 34 26 94 3 0 4 97 6 Laura Kenny 16 40 16 72 24 0 1 96 7 Maria Martins 30 26 32 88 7 0 5 95 8 Clara Copponi 16 24 40 80 5 0 7 85 9 Allison Beveridge 28 20 28 76 2 0 13 78 10 Holly Edmondston 24 14 22 60 7 0 8 67 11 Liu Jiali 22 28 14 64 1 0 9 65 12 Annette Edmondson 36 18 6 60 1 0 6 61 13 Emily Kay 16 16 24 56 0 0 15 56 14 Elisa Balsamo 16 22 12 50 0 0 10 50 15 Maria Novolodskaya 18 10 18 46 4 0 12 50 16 Tatsiana Sharakova 20 12 4 36 0 0 14 36 17 Olivija Baleišytė 16 8 30 54 0 17 3418 Ebtissam Mohamed 16 6 8 30 0 Pang Yao 16 4 10 30 0 Lotte Kopecky 16 Daria Pikulik 16

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