Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Cycling; at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
	Pictograms from top, left to right: BMX freestyle, BMX racing, road, mountain biking, and track cycling.
Venue	Pont 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)
Dates	27 July – 11 August 2024
No. of events	22 (11 men, 11 women)
Competitors	514
	← 2020 2028 →

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.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

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.^[6]

Despite the modest quota decrease, cycling featured a total of twenty-two medal events across five disciplines, similar to the 2020 program format.^[6] 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.^[7]

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.^[8]

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

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^[9]
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^[9]
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

Medal summary

Medal table

* Host nation (France)


Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France*	3	3	3	9
2	Netherlands	3	3	1	7
3	Australia	3	2	3	8
4	United States	3	2	1	6
5	Great Britain	2	5	4	11
6	New Zealand	2	2	1	5
7	Belgium	2	0	3	5
8	Italy	1	2	1	4
9	Portugal	1	1	0	2
10	Argentina	1	0	0	1
10	China	1	0	0	1
12	Germany	0	1	1	2
13	Poland	0	1	0	1
14	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	South Africa	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		22	22	22	66

Road cycling

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 Gil Argentina	Kieran Reilly Great Britain	Anthony Jeanjean France
Women's freestyle details	Deng Yawen China	Perris Benegas United States	Natalya Diehm Australia

References

^ "Paris 2024 – Road Cycling". Paris 2024. Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
^ "Paris 2024 – Track Cycling". Paris 2024. Archived from the original on 4 June 2023. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
^ "Paris 2024 – Mountain Biking". Paris 2024. Archived from the original on 26 December 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
^ "Paris 2024 – BMX Racing". Paris 2024. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
^ "Paris 2024 – BMX Freestyle". Paris 2024. Archived from the original on 26 December 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
^ ^a ^b "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.
^ "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.
^ "Team Leaders' Guide Road Cycling" (PDF). Paris 2024. p. 47-53.
^ ^a ^b "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.

External links

[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.

[cycling-oly-changes-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.

[cyc-sched-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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