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 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 All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
Date Time Round29 August 13:41 Qualifying 16:59 Finals
Results Qualifying
Rank Heat Cyclist Nationality Result Notes 1 8 Tristan BangmaPilot: Patrick Bos 3:55.396 , 2 7 Stephen BatePilot: Christopher Latham 3:56.435 3 8 Lorenzo BernardPilot: Davide Plebani 4:02.558 4 7 Vincent ter SchurePilot: Timo Fransen 4:04.969 5 6 Alexandre LloverasPilot: Yoann Paillot 4:06.920 6 5 Branden WaltonPilot: Spencer Seggebruch 4:10.290 7 6 Damien VerekerPilot: Mitchell McLaughlin 4:14.817 8 5 Karol KopiczPilot: Marcin Białobłocki 4:19.202 9 3 Maximiliano GómezPilot: Sebastián Tolosa 4:28.087 10 3 Kazuhei KimuraPilot: Kiaki Miura 4:28.676 11 4 Thomas UlbrichtPilot: Robert Förstemann 5:21.994 12 2 Martin GordonPilot: Eoin Mullen 5:27.642 13 2 Neil FachiePilot: Matt Rotherham 5:33.212 14 1 Kane PerrisPilot: Luke Zaccaria 5:42.837 15 4 James BallPilot: Steffan Lloyd 6:17.368 16 1 Frederick AssorPilot: Rudolf Mensah 6:30.071
Finals RankCyclistsNationResultNotesGold medal final Tristan BangmaPilot: Patrick Bos 3:55.439 Stephen BatePilot: Christopher Latham 3:57.652 Bronze medal final Lorenzo BernardPilot: Davide Plebani 4:04.613 4 Vincent ter SchurePilot: Timo Fransen 4:08.267 References