Thirteen Cyclists Selected to Represent Team USA at the 2024 Paralympic Games

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO – U.S. Paralympics Cycling today announced the 13 athletes – seven men and six women – who will compete for Team USA at the Paralympic Games Paris 2024.

Sam Bosco competes at the PossAbilities U.S. Paralympics Cycling Time Trial. (Photo by Casey Gibson/USOPC)

The team selection marks the culmination of a season of qualification events for both road and track cycling, ending with yesterday’s PossAbilities U.S. Paralympics Cycling Time Trial in Loma Linda, California, where nearly 40 athletes competed in the final road qualification event.

“I am incredibly optimistic about this team’s potential in Paris,” Ian Lawless, director, U.S. Paralympics Cycling, said. “Team USA is truly among the best countries in the world in Para-cycling, and to narrow it down to just 13 athletes for a Games was a very difficult process. As a program, we are so proud of not just these 13 athletes, but everyone who worked throughout the Paralympic quad to earn us points toward Games quotas.”

Making her team-high seventh Paralympic Games appearance is Oksana Masters (Louisville, Kentucky), who will look to repeat the double gold medal performance she put together in Tokyo. Also a Winter Paralympian in Nordic skiing three times over, Masters has accumulated 17 career Paralympic medals.

Masters will be joined in the women’s handcycling classifications by world champion Kate Brim (Lowell, Michigan), who is set for her Paralympic debut after dominating the WH2 category since her first world championships in 2022. Brim won both time trial and road race gold at the world championships in 2022 and has gone on to win nearly every major WH2 race in which she has competed.

In similar fashion in the WC4 classification, Samantha Bosco (Claremont, California) completes a triumphant comeback to the sport by earning a Paris roster spot. Bosco was named to the Tokyo team in 2021, but an injury prevented her from competing in what would have been her second Paralympic Games. The two-time Paralympic bronze medalist has since been on a revenge tour, capturing four road world titles in the past two years to go along with six worlds medals on the track.

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