Motocross is a form of off-road motorcycle racing held on enclosed off-road circuits. The sport evolved from motorcycle trials competitions held in the United Kingdom.
Shanaze Danielle Reade is a British former bicycle motocross (BMX) racer and track cyclist whose prime competitive years began in 2002. She has won the UCI BMX World Championships three times. Reade is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Irish mother.
The Summer Paralympics also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, are an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete. This includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy. The Paralympic Games are held every four years, organized by the International Paralympic Committee. Medals are awarded in each event, with gold medals for first place, silver for second and bronze for third, a tradition that the Olympic Games started in 1904.
Larisa Andreea Iordache is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She is the current leader of the Romanian women's artistic gymnastics team, and represented Romania at the 2012 and 2020 Olympic Games.
Para-cycling classification is the process of classifying participants in para-cycling covering four functional disability types. The classification system includes classes for handcycles for people who have lower limb mobility issues. The sport is governed by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
Simone Arianne Biles is an American artistic gymnast. With a combined total of 32 Olympic and World Championship medals, Biles is tied as the most decorated gymnast of all time. Biles' seven Olympic medals also ties Shannon Miller for the most Olympic medals won by an American female gymnast. Biles is considered one of the greatest and most dominant gymnasts of all time.
Switzerland competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Swiss athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except for a partial boycott of the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne in protest at the Soviet invasion of Hungary.
Denmark competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Danish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis.
Cycling at the 2020 Summer Paralympics is taking part in two separate locations. Track cycling is taking place at the Izu Velodrome from 25 to 28 August 2021 and road cycling will take place on the Fuji Speedway from 31 August to 3 September 2021.
Great Britain is currently competing in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan. Originally scheduled to take place between 21 August and 6 September 2020, the Games were postponed to 24 August to 5 September 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. British athletes have competed at sixteen consecutive Summer Paralympics since 1960.
The men's road time trial cycling events at the 2020 Summer Paralympics will take place on August 31 at Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Japan. Twelve events will take place over twelve classifications. The T1-2 time trial, which takes in two classifications, was a 'factored' event, with times adjusted by classification to allow fair competition. All events (finals) are to be held on the same day.
The women's road time trial cycling events at the 2020 Summer Paralympics will take place on August 31 at Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Japan. There will be seven events taking place over twelve classifications. Four of those events, spanning multiple classifications were 'factored' events, with final times adjusted in line with classification to ensure fairness. All events (finals) are to be held on the same day on August 31.
The women's road race cycling events at the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place from September 1 to 3 at Fuji Speedway, Oyama. Six events took place over twelve classifications.
The men's time trial track cycling events at the 2020 Summer Paralympics will take place between August 26 to 28 at Izu Velodrome, Japan. A total of three events will take place in the men's event over six classifications. Two of those three events spanned multiple classifications were 'factored' events, with final times adjusted in line with classification to ensure fairness. The distances of all three events are 1000m.
The women's time trial track cycling events at the 2020 Summer Paralympics will take place between August 26 to 27 2021 at the Izu Velodrome, Japan. Three events will take place in the women's event over six classifications. Two of those three events spanned multiple classifications were 'factored' events, with final times adjusted in line with classification to ensure fairness. The distance for the B event is 1000m while the other two is 500m.
The mixed team sprint C1–5 track cycling event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place at the Izu Velodrome, Japan. The C category is for cyclists with a physical impairment that prevents them from competing in able-bodied competition but still competes using a standard bicycle. 27 cyclist from 9 different nations participated in this event. The distance for this event will be 750m.
The men's time trial class T1-2 road cycling event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place on 31 August 2021 at the Fuji Speedway, Japan. 9 riders all from different nations competed in this event.
The women's road time trial T1–2 road cycling event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place on 31 August 2021 around the Fuji Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture. 11 riders from 8 nations competed in the race.
The men's road race C1-3 cycling event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics will take place on 2 September 2021, at the Fuji Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture. 39 riders will compete in the event.
The men's road race T1-2 cycling event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics will take place on 2 September 2021, at the Fuji Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture. 9 riders will compete in the event.
