The International Cycling Union is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland.
Marie-Hélène Prémont is a Canadian cross-country mountain biker. She is a 6-time Canadian Champion, represented Canada twice at the Olympics, a Commonwealth Games gold medalist, and from 2004 to 2008 was a regular medal winner on the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup cross country circuit.
Sanne Cant is a Belgian racing cyclist, who currently competes in cyclo-cross for UCI Cyclo-cross Team IKO–Crelan, and in road cycling for UCI Women's Continental Team Fenix–Deceuninck. Cant's cousin Loes Sels is also a professional cyclist.
Adrien Niyonshuti is a Rwandan former professional bicycle racer, who rode professionally for Team Dimension Data from 2009 to 2017. In 2021, he worked as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team Skol Adrien Cycling Academy. In 2023, he will be leading the Benin National Cycling team to prepare for the UCI Championships to be held on the continent in 2025.
Gorgi Popstefanov is a Macedonian road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team EuroCyclingTrips Pro Cycling. He is the 2010 and the 2016 Macedonian National Road Race Championships winner. Popstefanov represented Macedonia twice at the UCI Road World Championships, in 2014 and 2015.
Emilie Moberg is a Norwegian road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Lifeplus Wahoo.
Catriel Andrés Soto Auer is an Argentine cross-country mountain biker and road racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Continental team Equipo Continental San Luis.
Anton Cooper is a New Zealand cross-country cyclist who races for the Trek Factory Racing XC Team. He is the 2015 World Under 23 Cross-country Mountain bike champion and the 2012 World Junior Cross-country Mountain bike champion. One of the two contenders for the country's 2016 Summer Olympics quota spot, he developed chronic fatigue earlier in 2016 and the nomination went to Sam Gaze instead. Cooper represented New Zealand at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, finishing sixth in the Men's Cross-country Mountain Bike final.
Leah Kirchmann is a Canadian racing cyclist, who rides for National Cycling League team Denver Disruptors. She competed in the 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence. At the 2014 Global Relay Canadian Road Championships, held in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, she won the road race, time trial and the criterium, becoming the first woman to win all three titles in the same year.
Roel Paulissen is a Belgian former professional mountain biker. Throughout his sporting career since 1993, he has won more than ten Belgian national championship titles, mounted top-five finishes at both the European and World Cup series, and claimed a total of four medals, including two golds, in men's cross-country race at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. Paulissen also represented his nation Belgium in four editions of the Olympic Games, where he competed in men's mountain biking since it officially became an Olympic sport in 1996. By the start of the 2010 season, Paulissen had been overshadowed by a doping issue after he tested positive for clomiphene that sidelined and effectively ended his mountain biking career. Having lifted a two-year suspension from doping in early 2013, Paulissen came out from his short retirement to join and race professionally for the Italian team Torpado.
Samuel William Gaze is a New Zealand cross-country and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Alpecin–Deceuninck. He won the under-23 Cross-Country at the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships and the 2017 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. He also competes on occasion in road racing events, winning the National Criterium Championships in 2017 and 2018.
Varvara Fasoi is a Greek cyclist, who, as of December 2022, competes for Panathinaikos cycling team of Greece. Between 2019 and 2022 she rode for UCI Women's Continental Team Eneicat–RBH Global–Martín Villa. She competed at the UCI Road World Championships on five occasions between 2014 and 2019.
Shlomi Haimy is an Israeli road and cross-country cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Continental team Israel Cycling Academy.
Daniel Federspiel is an Austrian cross-country mountain biker, cyclo-cross and road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Team Felt–Felbermayr. He specialises in the cross-country eliminator event, in which he was world champion in 2015 and 2016. He was also European champion in the cross-country eliminator in 2013 and 2014. He was given the Austrian Cyclist of the Year award in 2016.
Scott Bowden is an Australian mountain biking and road cyclist, who currently rides for French amateur team Bourg-en-Bresse Ain Cyclisme. He rode in the road race and the cross-country at the 2016 Summer Olympics, representing Australia. Bowden first started cycling while he was a student at St. Virgil's College, Tasmania.
Jens Schuermans is a Belgian mountain bike racer. He rode in the cross-country event at the 2016, 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.
Peter Lombard II is a Guamanian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team EuroCyclingTrips Pro Cycling. He rode at the cross-country event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He was pulled from the race after he crashed twice. He is an eye surgeon and owns a clinic, Lombard Health.
The men's cross-country mountain biking event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July 2021 at the Izu MTB Course, Izu, Shizuoka. 38 cyclists from 29 nations competed.
EuroCyclingTrips - Yoeleo is a UCI Continental cycling team based in the United States territory of Guam.
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.
