The Union Cycliste Internationale is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland.
Yukiya Arashiro is a Japanese road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Bahrain Victorious.
Ashleigh Moolman Pasio is a South African professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI Women's Continental Team AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race, finishing 16th and in the Women's time trial finishing 24th.
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot is a French multi-discipline bicycle racer, who rides for UCI Mountain Bike team Ineos Grenadiers in cross-country cycling. Ferrand-Prévot has also competed in road bicycle racing and cyclo-cross during her career, winning the world title in each discipline. During the 2015 season, aged just 23, she became the first person ever – in the history of cycling – to simultaneously hold the World road title, World cyclo-cross title and World cross-country mountain bike title.
Christine Majerus is a Luxembourgish professional road and cyclo-cross cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team SD Worx–Protime. She won the 2013 Sparkassen Giro Bochum one-day road race and the general classification of the 2019 Holland Ladies Tour.
Audrey Cordon-Ragot is a French road bicycle racer, who currently races for UCI Women's WorldTeam Human Powered Health.
Elisa Longo Borghini is an Italian professional road cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl–Trek.
Eri Yonamine is a Japanese professional racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's ContinentalTeam Laboral Kutxa–Fundación Euskadi.
Toms Skujiņš is a Latvian professional road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Lidl–Trek.
Urška Žigart is a Slovenian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Liv AlUla Jayco.
James Oram is a New Zealand former cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2012 to 2023. His career took him from the American development team Bontrager–Livestrong, to British UCI continental team ONE Pro Cycling, before a year with Chinese Mitchelton–BikeExchange and finally riding for New Zealand Bolton Equities Black Spoke. He achieved one professional win in his career, the national road race championship in 2023.
Alison Jackson is a Canadian professional racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's Continental Team EF–Oatly–Cannondale. In April 2023, Jackson won Paris–Roubaix Femmes, described as the "biggest win of her career".
Filippo Ganna is an Italian track and road cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers. He is a record-breaking six-time world champion in the individual pursuit, winning a total of nine medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, and part of the Olympic gold medal-winning team in the team pursuit at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He also won the men's individual time trial at the 2020 and 2021 UCI Road World Championships, and four stages in the 2020 Giro d'Italia and two stages in the 2021 Giro d'Italia, setting the record for most consecutive time trials won at the Giro with five. He is the current world record holder in individual pursuit and of the hour record, which he unified with the best human effort since the distinction was first made in 1997.
Marlen Reusser is a Swiss racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team SD Worx–Protime.
Grace Brown is an Australian road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam FDJ–Suez. Brown competed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She just missed out on a medal in the women’s time trial, finishing fourth. She also competed in the women's road race where she came 47th. At the 2024 Paris Olympics she won the gold medal in the Women's individual time trial event.
Anna Louise Henderson is a British profesional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's World Tour Team Visma–Lease a Bike. She took a silver medal in the time trial at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Pfeiffer Zara Georgi is an English professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team dsm–firmenich PostNL. She won the 2021, 2023 & 2024 British National Road Race Championships.
Afghanistan competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, its first Olympics since the return of Taliban rule in 2021 and the self-imposed exile of many of the country's leading athletes, especially women. It also marked the nation's sixteenth appearance in these games since 1936. The country did not participate in 1952, 1976, 1984, 1992, and 2000. Afghanistan has taken part in every recent Olympics since 2004. Afghanistan failed to win a medal at the Paris Olympics 2024.
Yulduz Hashimi is an Afghan racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team WCC Team. She competed for Afghanistan in both the time trial and the road race at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside her sister Fariba, despite the Taliban government's ban on women in sports. They were the first women to compete in cycling for Afghanistan. Hashimi finished 26th in the time trial at the 2024 Olympics.
