Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles.
Cycling has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics, at which a road race and five track events were held. Mountain bike racing entered the Olympic programme at the Atlanta Olympics, followed by BMX racing in 2008 and freestyle BMX in 2020. Before the 2020 Summer Olympics, all events were speed races, but the 2020 programme featured BMX freestyle for the first time.
Cycling competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics were held from August 9 to August 23 at the Laoshan Velodrome, Laoshan Mountain Bike Course, Laoshan BMX Field and the Beijing Cycling Road Course.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to cycling:
Annette Edmondson is an Australian former cyclist who competed on the track with Cycling Australia's High Performance Unit (HPU). She also competed on the road for the Wiggle High5 team between 2015 and 2018.
Juan Esteban Arango Carvajal is a Colombian road and track cyclist.
For the cycling competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the following qualification systems are in place.
The cycling competition at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games was held in Veracruz, Mexico.
Jennifer Marie Valente is an American professional racing cyclist who is a two-time gold medalist in women's omnium at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics. As part of the U.S. team, she has also won the team pursuit at the Paris Olympics. Valente has ridden for UCI Women's Team Virginia's Blue Ridge–TWENTY24. She has won seven gold medals in the World Championships and five Olympic medals, making her the most decorated U.S. female cyclist in Olympic history.
The 2017–18 UCI Track Cycling World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a track cycling season. It was the 26th series of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup organised by the UCI. The series was run from 3 November 2017 to 21 January 2018 and consisted of five rounds.
For the cycling competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics, the following qualification systems are in place.
The cycling competition at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games was held from 20 to 29 July. The BMX events were held at Villa Carolina, the mountain biking events were held at the Pista Pelicanos, the road cycling events were held at Dapa Mall, Palmira and Buga and the track cycling events were held at the Velódromo Alcides Nieto Patiño
The 2018 in cycling results is given as follows:
The following is the qualification system and qualified countries for the cycling at the 2019 Pan American Games competition in Lima, Peru.
The 2021 UEC European Track Championships were the 21st continental championships for European under-23 and junior track cyclists, and the 12th since the event was renamed following the reorganisation of European track cycling in 2010. The event took place at the Omnisport Apeldoorn in Apeldoorn, Netherlands from 17 to 22 August 2021.
Cycling competitions at the 2022 South American Games in Asunción, Paraguay were held between October 2 and 15, 2022 at the Agua Vista, Pista de BMX Freestyle, Pista BMX Racing - COP, Costanera José Asunción Flores and Velódromo del COP.
The following is the qualification system and qualified countries for the cycling at the 2023 Pan American Games competition in Santiago, Chile.
This article details the qualifying phase for cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics. A total of 514 cyclists, with an equal distribution between men and women, competed in twenty-two medal events across five disciplines at these Games.
