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Cycling
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Pictograms from top, left to right: BMX freestyle, BMX racing, road, mountain biking, and track cycling.
VenuePont d'Iéna (road race)
Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (track and BMX racing)
Élancourt Hill (mountain biking)
Invalides (road time trial start)
Place de la Concorde (BMX freestyle)
Pont Alexandre III (road time trial finish)
Polygone de Vincennes [fr] (road training)
Dates27 July – 11 August 2024
No. of events22 (11 men, 11 women)
Competitors514
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Cycling at the
2024 Summer Olympics
List of cyclists
Qualification
Road cycling
Road racemenwomen
Time trialmenwomen
Track cycling
Sprintmenwomen
Team sprintmenwomen
Keirinmenwomen
Team pursuitmenwomen
Madisonmenwomen
Omniummenwomen
Mountain biking
Cross-countrymenwomen
BMX
BMX racingmenwomen
BMX freestylemenwomen

The cycling competitions of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris occurred at four different venues (Pont d'Iéna for road and time trial races; Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines for track cycling and BMX racing; Élancourt Hill for mountain biking; and Place de la Concorde for the BMX freestyle), from 27 July to 11 August, featuring twenty-two events across five disciplines.

Cycling competitions have been contested in every Summer Olympics edition since the modern Olympiad revived in 1896, along with athletics, artistic gymnastics, fencing and swimming.

A total of 514 cyclists have competed at Paris 2024 with an equal split between men and women for the first time in the sport's history, attaining the goal of gender equality as one of the objectives ratified by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Having already been achieved in mountain biking, BMX racing, and BMX freestyle on the Tokyo 2020 program, several significant changes were instituted in the road and track cycling, with some men's quota places transferred to the women's side and with the number of riders in women's team sprint increasing from two to three. Conforming to the recommendations of the International Olympic Committee's 2020 agenda, cycling had fourteen fewer places at these Games than those in 2020, a reduction that affected road racing and mountain biking. Nonetheless, the distribution of an extra place for track cycling and six in BMX freestyle, with the number of athletes competing in the men's and women's events increasing from nine to twelve, partly counteracted the moderate decrease in the cycling spots offered at these Games.

Despite the modest quota decrease, cycling featured a total of twenty-two medal events across five disciplines, similar to the 2020 program format. While the sport continued to run on all days between the opening and closing ceremonies, Paris 2024 witnessed some scheduling changes contrary to the previous edition; hence, the men's and women's individual time trial medalists were awarded on the first day of the competition.

For road cycling there was a special training venue, Polygone de Vincennes [fr], so the cyclists were not dependent on the (busy) roads of Paris.

The 20-year reign of Great Britain at the top of the Olympic cycling table was finally broken, as home nation France topped a tightly contested table with three gold medals, tied with Australia, Netherlands, United States, with Belgium, New Zealand and Great Britain just one gold medal behind. Despite the significant drop in gold medals, Great Britain won the most overall medals, with 11.

Qualification

Main article: Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

As the host country, France reserved a men's and women's quota place in BMX racing, BMX freestyle, and mountain biking; and two more in the men's and women's road races. When one or two French cyclists qualify directly and regularly, their spare slots were reallocated to the next highest-ranked eligible NOCs in the aforementioned events based on the national order of the UCI World Ranking list by October 17, 2023.

About ninety percent of the total quota places were attributed through the UCI World Ranking lists of their respective disciplines, with some spots offered for the cyclists at the 2023 UCI World Championships and at continental qualification tournaments (Africa, Asia, and the Americas).

Competition schedule

Legend
H Heats/preliminaries ¼ Quarter-finals LC Last chance run ½ Semi-finals F Final
BMX, mountain biking and road cycling
Event↓/Date → Sat 27 Sun 28 Mon 29 Tue 30 Wed 31 Thu 1 Fri 2 Sat 3 Sun 4
BMX
Men's freestyle Q F
Men's racing ¼ LC ½ F
Women's freestyle Q F
Women's racing ¼ LC ½ F
Mountain biking
Men's cross-country F
Women's cross-country F
Road cycling
Men's road race F
Men's time trial F
Women's road race F
Women's time trial F
Track cycling
Event↓/Date → Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10 Sun 11
A A M A A M A A A
Men's sprint H ¼ ½ F
Men's team sprint H ½ F
Men's keirin H ¼ ½ F
Men's team pursuit H ½ F
Men's omnium SR TR ER PR
Men's madison F
Women's sprint H ¼ ½ F
Women's team sprint H ½ F
Women's keirin H ¼ ½ F
Women's team pursuit H ½ F
Women's omnium SR TR ER PR
Women's madison F
M = Morning session, A = Afternoon session
SR = Scratch race, TR = Tempo race, ER = Elimination race, PR = Points race

Participation

In total of 514 quotas and 267 cyclists from 75 NOCs:

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 France*3339
2 Netherlands3317
3 Australia3238
4 United States3216
5 Great Britain25411
6 New Zealand2215
7 Belgium2035
8 Italy1214
9 Portugal1102
10 Argentina1001
 China1001
12 Germany0112
13 Poland0101
14 Denmark0011
 South Africa0011
 Sweden0011
 Switzerland0011
Totals (17 entries)22222266

Road cycling

During the time trial
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's road race
details 		Remco Evenepoel
 Belgium 		Valentin Madouas
 France 		Christophe Laporte
 France
Men's time trial
details 		Remco Evenepoel
 Belgium 		Filippo Ganna
 Italy 		Wout van Aert
 Belgium
Women's road race
details 		Kristen Faulkner
 United States 		Marianne Vos
 Netherlands 		Lotte Kopecky
 Belgium
Women's time trial
details 		Grace Brown
 Australia 		Anna Henderson
 Great Britain 		Chloé Dygert
 United States

Track cycling

Men's

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Sprint
details 		Harrie Lavreysen
 Netherlands 		Matthew Richardson
 Australia 		Jack Carlin
 Great Britain
Team sprint
details 		 Netherlands
Roy van den Berg
Harrie Lavreysen
Jeffrey Hoogland 		 Great Britain
Ed Lowe
Hamish Turnbull
Jack Carlin 		 Australia
Leigh Hoffman
Matthew Richardson
Matthew Glaetzer
Keirin
details 		Harrie Lavreysen
 Netherlands 		Matthew Richardson
 Australia 		Matthew Glaetzer
 Australia
Madison
details 		 Portugal
Iúri Leitão
Rui Oliveira 		 Italy
Simone Consonni
Elia Viviani 		 Denmark
Niklas Larsen
Michael Mørkøv
Omnium
details 		Benjamin Thomas
 France 		Iúri Leitão
 Portugal 		Fabio Van den Bossche
 Belgium
Team pursuit
details 		 Australia
Oliver Bleddyn
Sam Welsford
Conor Leahy
Kelland O'Brien 		 Great Britain
Ethan Hayter
Daniel Bigham
Charlie Tanfield
Ethan Vernon
Oliver Wood 		 Italy
Simone Consonni
Filippo Ganna
Francesco Lamon
Jonathan Milan

Women's

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Sprint
details 		Ellesse Andrews
 New Zealand 		Lea Friedrich
 Germany 		Emma Finucane
 Great Britain
Team sprint
details 		 Great Britain
Katy Marchant
Sophie Capewell
Emma Finucane 		 New Zealand
Rebecca Petch
Shaane Fulton
Ellesse Andrews 		 Germany
Pauline Grabosch
Emma Hinze
Lea Sophie Friedrich
Keirin
details 		Ellesse Andrews
 New Zealand 		Hetty van de Wouw
 Netherlands 		Emma Finucane
 Great Britain
Madison
details 		 Italy
Chiara Consonni
Vittoria Guazzini 		 Great Britain
Elinor Barker
Neah Evans 		 Netherlands
Maike van der Duin
Lisa van Belle
Omnium
details 		Jennifer Valente
 United States 		Daria Pikulik
 Poland 		Ally Wollaston
 New Zealand
Team pursuit
details 		 United States
Jennifer Valente
Lily Williams
Chloé Dygert
Kristen Faulkner 		 New Zealand
Ally Wollaston
Bryony Botha
Emily Shearman
Nicole Shields 		 Great Britain
Elinor Barker
Josie Knight
Anna Morris
Jessica Roberts

Mountain biking

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's cross-country
details 		Tom Pidcock
 Great Britain 		Victor Koretzky
 France 		Alan Hatherly
 South Africa
Women's cross-country
details 		Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
 France 		Haley Batten
 United States 		Jenny Rissveds
 Sweden

BMX

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's race
details 		Joris Daudet
 France 		Sylvain André
 France 		Romain Mahieu
 France
Women's race
details 		Saya Sakakibara
 Australia 		Manon Veenstra
 Netherlands 		Zoé Claessens
 Switzerland
Men's freestyle
details 		José Torres
 Argentina 		Kieran Reilly
 Great Britain 		Anthony Jeanjean
 France
Women's freestyle
details 		Deng Yawen
 China 		Perris Benegas
 United States 		Natalya Diehm
 Australia

See also

References

  1. "Paris 2024 – Road Cycling". Paris 2024. Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  2. "Paris 2024 – Track Cycling". Paris 2024. Archived from the original on 4 June 2023. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  3. "Paris 2024 – Mountain Biking". Paris 2024. Archived from the original on 26 December 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  4. "Paris 2024 – BMX Racing". Paris 2024. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  5. "Paris 2024 – BMX Freestyle". Paris 2024. Archived from the original on 26 December 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  6. ^ "Cycling achieves full gender parity in terms of athlete numbers at the Olympic Games Paris 2024". Union Cycliste Internationale. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  7. "Olympic Games Paris 2024: cycling to crown two Olympic Champions on first day of medal competitions". Union Cycliste Internationale. 13 April 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  8. "Team Leaders' Guide Road Cycling" (PDF). Paris 2024. p. 47-53.
  9. ^ "Olympic Games Paris 2024: Full schedule and day-by-day competitions". Olympics. 2 April 2023. Archived from the original on 27 January 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.

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