Venue | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Date(s) | 20–24 March |
Velodrome | Rio Olympic Velodrome |
Nations participating | 39 |
Cyclists participating | 203+46 |
Events | 48 |
The 2024 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships was held from 20 to 24 March 2024, at the Olympic Velodrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Event | Class | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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Team sprint | B [47] | Italy Chiara Colombo Elena Bissolati (pilot) Stefano Meroni Francesco Ceci (pilot) | 50.122G | Great Britain Lora Fachie Corrine Hall (pilot) Neil Fachie Matt Rotherham (pilot) | 50.497G | United States Hannah Chadwick Skyler Espinoza (pilot) Michael Stephens Joe Christiansen (pilot) | 51.437B |
C1–5 [48] | China Li Zhangyu Wu Guoqing Lai Shanzhang | 47.939G | Great Britain Kadeena Cox Jaco van Gass Blaine Hunt | 48.634G | Australia Gordon Allan Michael Shippley Korey Boddington | 49.227B |
China topped the medal table with fourteen golds, but by the barest of margins from Great Britain (thirteen) and France (twelve). Great Britain's far higher silver medal count proving decisive as their 32 medals comfortably led the overall medals tally. Of the other nations to take part, only Australia with four and Netherlands with two got more than one gold medal, although Australia did reach double figures in medals overall, the only nation outside the 'Big three' to do so.
* Host nation (Brazil)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | China | 14 | 4 | 1 | 19 |
2 | Great Britain | 13 | 14 | 5 | 32 |
3 | France | 12 | 5 | 2 | 19 |
4 | Australia | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
5 | Netherlands | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
6 | New Zealand | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
7 | Switzerland | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
8 | Italy | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
9 | Japan | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
10 | Canada | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
11 | Austria | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Spain | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
13 | Brazil * | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
14 | United States | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
15 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Colombia | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
17 | Germany | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
18 | Malaysia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (19 entries) | 48 | 48 | 44 | 140 |
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