Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Cyclingat the Games of the Olympiad
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pictograms from top, left to right: BMX freestyle, BMX racing, road, mountain biking, and track cycling.
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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 (road training) |
Dates | 27 July – 11 August 2024 |
No. of events | 22 (11 men, 11 women) |
Competitors | 514 |
The cycling competitions of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run 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 will compete 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 are 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 will have fourteen fewer places at these Games than those in 2020, a reduction that affects 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 counteracts the moderate decrease in the cycling spots offered at these Games.
Despite the modest quota decrease, cycling will feature a total of twenty-two medal events across five disciplines, similar to the 2020 program format. While the sport continues to run on all days between the opening and closing ceremonies, Paris 2024 will witness some scheduling changes contrary to the previous edition; hence, the men's and women's individual time trial medalists will be awarded on the first day of the competition.
For road cycling there was a special training venue, Polygone de Vincennes
, so the cyclists were not dependent on the (busy) roads of Paris.Contents
Qualification
As the host country, France reserves 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. If one or two French cyclists qualify directly and regularly, their spare slots will be 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 will be 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 the continental qualification tournaments (Africa, Asia, and the Americas).
Competition schedule
H | Heats/preliminaries | ¼ | Quarterfinals | LC | Last chance run | ½ | Semifinals | F | Final |
Event↓/Date → | Sat 27 | Sun 28 | Mon 29 | Tue 30 | Wed 31 | Thu 1 | Fri 2 | Sat 3 | Sun 4 | ||
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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 |
Event↓/Date → | Mon 5 | Tue 6 | Wed 7 | Thu 8 | Fri 9 | Sat 10 | Sun 11 | ||||||||||||
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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 |
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 |
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1 | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
2 | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
3 | ![]() |
3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
4 | ![]() |
3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
5 | ![]() |
2 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
6 | ![]() |
2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
7 | ![]() |
2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
8 | ![]() |
1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
9 | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
10 | ![]() |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
12 | ![]() |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
13 | ![]() |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
14 | ![]() |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (17 entries) | 22 | 22 | 22 | 66 |
Road cycling
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's road race |
Remco Evenepoel![]() |
Valentin Madouas![]() |
Christophe Laporte![]() |
Men's time trial |
Remco Evenepoel![]() |
Filippo Ganna![]() |
Wout van Aert![]() |
Women's road race |
Kristen Faulkner![]() |
Marianne Vos![]() |
Lotte Kopecky![]() |
Women's time trial |
Grace Brown![]() |
Anna Henderson![]() |
Chloé Dygert![]() |
Track cycling
Men's
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Sprint |
Harrie Lavreysen![]() |
Matthew Richardson![]() |
Jack Carlin![]() |
Team sprint |
![]() Roy van den Berg Harrie Lavreysen Jeffrey Hoogland |
![]() Ed Lowe Hamish Turnbull Jack Carlin |
![]() Leigh Hoffman Matthew Richardson Matthew Glaetzer |
Keirin |
Harrie Lavreysen![]() |
Matthew Richardson![]() |
Matthew Glaetzer![]() |
Madison |
![]() Iúri Leitão Rui Oliveira |
![]() Simone Consonni Elia Viviani |
![]() Niklas Larsen Michael Mørkøv |
Omnium |
Benjamin Thomas![]() |
Iúri Leitão![]() |
Fabio Van den Bossche![]() |
Team pursuit |
![]() Oliver Bleddyn Sam Welsford Conor Leahy Kelland O'Brien |
![]() Ethan Hayter Daniel Bigham Charlie Tanfield Ethan Vernon Oliver Wood |
![]() Simone Consonni Filippo Ganna Francesco Lamon Jonathan Milan |
Women's
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Sprint |
Ellesse Andrews![]() |
Lea Friedrich![]() |
Emma Finucane![]() |
Team sprint |
![]() Katy Marchant Sophie Capewell Emma Finucane |
![]() Rebecca Petch Shaane Fulton Ellesse Andrews |
![]() Pauline Grabosch Emma Hinze Lea Sophie Friedrich |
Keirin |
Ellesse Andrews![]() |
Hetty van de Wouw![]() |
Emma Finucane![]() |
Madison |
![]() Chiara Consonni Vittoria Guazzini |
![]() Elinor Barker Neah Evans |
![]() Maike van der Duin Lisa van Belle |
Omnium |
Jennifer Valente![]() |
Daria Pikulik![]() |
Ally Wollaston![]() |
Team pursuit |
![]() Jennifer Valente Lily Williams Chloé Dygert Kristen Faulkner |
![]() Ally Wollaston Bryony Botha Emily Shearman Nicole Shields |
![]() Elinor Barker Josie Knight Anna Morris Jessica Roberts |
Mountain biking
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's cross-country |
Tom Pidcock![]() |
Victor Koretzky![]() |
Alan Hatherly![]() |
Women's cross-country |
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot![]() |
Haley Batten![]() |
Jenny Rissveds![]() |
BMX
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's race |
Joris Daudet![]() |
Sylvain André![]() |
Romain Mahieu![]() |
Women's race |
Saya Sakakibara![]() |
Manon Veenstra![]() |
Zoé Claessens![]() |
Men's freestyle |
José Torres Gil![]() |
Kieran Reilly![]() |
Anthony Jeanjean![]() |
Women's freestyle |
Deng Yawen![]() |
Perris Benegas![]() |
Natalya Diehm![]() |
See also
In Spanish: Ciclismo en los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024 para niños
- Cycling at the 2023 European Games
- Cycling at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Cycling at the 2024 Summer Paralympics