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); Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (track and BMX racing); Élancourt Hill (mountain biking); Place de la Concorde (BMX freestyle)
Dates	27 July – 11 August 2024
No. of events	22
Competitors	514
	← 2020 2028 →

Last updated March 01, 2024

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.^[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 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.^[6]

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

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

Legend
H	Heats/preliminaries	¼	Quarterfinals	LC	Last chance run	½	Semifinals	F	Final

**BMX, mountain biking and road cycling**^[8]
Event↓/Date →	Sat 27	Sun 28	Mon 29	Tue 30	Wed 31	Thu 1		Fri 2		Sat 3	Sun 4
BMX
Men's freestyle				S	F
Men's racing						¼	LC	½	F
Women's freestyle				S	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

S=seeding^[8]

**Track cycling**^[8]
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

Medalists

Medal table

* Host nation (France)


Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Totals (0 entries)		0	0	0	0

Road cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's road race details
Men's time trial details
Women's road race details
Women's time trial details

Track cycling

Men's

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sprint details
Team sprint details
Keirin details
Madison details
Omnium details
Team pursuit details

Women's

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sprint details
Team sprint details
Keirin details
Madison details
Omnium details
Team pursuit details

Mountain biking

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's cross-country details
Women's cross-country details

BMX

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's race details
Men's freestyle details
Women's race details
Women's freestyle details

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References

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↑ "Paris 2024 – Track Cycling". Paris 2024 . Retrieved 26 December 2022.
↑ "Paris 2024 – Mountain Biking". Paris 2024 . Retrieved 26 December 2022.
↑ "Paris 2024 – BMX Racing". Paris 2024 . Retrieved 26 December 2022.
↑ "Paris 2024 – BMX Freestyle". Paris 2024 . Retrieved 26 December 2022.
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1 2 3 "Olympic Games Paris 2024: Full schedule and day-by-day competitions". Olympics . 2 April 2023. Retrieved 29 February 2024.

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[1] "Paris 2024 – Road Cycling". Paris 2024 . Retrieved 26 December 2022.

[2] "Paris 2024 – Track Cycling". Paris 2024 . Retrieved 26 December 2022.

[3] "Paris 2024 – Mountain Biking". Paris 2024 . Retrieved 26 December 2022.

[4] "Paris 2024 – BMX Racing". Paris 2024 . Retrieved 26 December 2022.

[5] "Paris 2024 – BMX Freestyle". Paris 2024 . Retrieved 26 December 2022.

[cycling-oly-changes-6] 1 2 "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.

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