Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling sports include artistic cycling, cycle polo, freestyle BMX, mountain bike trials, hardcourt bike polo and cycleball. The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is the world governing body for cycling and international competitive cycling events. The International Human Powered Vehicle Association is the governing body for human-powered vehicles that imposes far fewer restrictions on their design than does the UCI. The UltraMarathon Cycling Association is the governing body for many ultra-distance cycling races.
Isaac Gálvez López was a Spanish track and road racing cyclist who rode for Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears in the UCI ProTour. He died during the 66th Six Days of Ghent cycling event in Belgium after colliding with Dimitri De Fauw and crashing against the railing. He died from internal bleeding. At the time of the accident, he had only been married for three weeks. After this, De Fauw suffered from depression and he committed suicide on 6 November 2009.
Ernest Payne was an English track cycling racer. Born in Worcester, he won a gold medal in the team pursuit at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London for Great Britain and went on to play football, including two games as an amateur for Manchester United.
Iljo Keisse is a Belgian former racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2005 to 2022. Keisse races on the track and on the road, specializing himself until recently in riding six-day races. He notably has won the Six Days of Ghent seven times and reached the podium a total of 12 times.
Günter Haritz is a retired road and track cyclist from West Germany, who won the gold medal in the Men's 4.000 Team Pursuit at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, alongside Günther Schumacher, Jürgen Colombo, and Udo Hempel. In 1973, together with Peter Vonhof, Hans Lutz and Günther Schumacher, Haritz won the amateur world title in the team pursuit.
Peter Post was a Dutch professional cyclist whose career lasted from 1956 to 1972. Post competed in road and track racing. As a rider he is best remembered for Six-day racing, having competed in 155 races and won 65. Because of this success he was known as “De Keizer van de Zesdaagse” or “The Emperor of the Six Days”. In road racing his main achievements were winning the 1964 Paris–Roubaix and becoming national road race champion in 1963. He was on the podium three times at the La Flèche Wallonne but never won. Post’s other nickname was “de Lange” or “Big Man” because he was tall for a cyclist. After retiring from racing he had success as a Directeur sportif. Peter Post died in Amstelveen on 14 January 2011.
Matthew "Matt" Wilson is a retired professional Australian road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 2001 and 2012. During 2007 he rode as a domestique for the UCI ProTour team Unibet.com. In 2008 and 2009, he rode as a team leader for the US-based Team Type 1, and rode for the Garmin–Transitions team in 2010 and 2011. He joined GreenEDGE for the 2012 season, and retired after the Vattenfall Cyclassics in August of that year.
Chloe Hosking is Australian professional racing cyclist. She holds the record for the most professional wins for an Australian woman with 39 professional wins in her career. Hosking has represented Australia at junior and then senior levels since 2007. Following success in a number of international events she turned professional in 2010. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race, and won the women's road race at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Clinton Robert Avery is a New Zealand racing cyclist, who last rode for the Champion System team.
Bernard Esterhuizen is a South African track cyclist. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's sprint.
Scott Matthew McPhee, is an Australian cyclist, who piloted Kieran Modra in tandem cycling. He won a gold medal with Modra at the 2012 London Paralympics.
Adolph Verschueren was a Belgian cyclist. As a road cyclist, he won the Tour of Flanders in 1942 and the sixth stage of Tour de Suisse in 1949.
Graeme Gilmore is an Australian retired track cyclist. He is the father of Belgian racing cyclist Matthew Gilmore and brother in law of British racing cyclist Tom Simpson.
Dirk Baert is a Belgian retired road and track cyclist. On track, he won one gold and two bronze medals in the individual pursuit at the world championships in 1971, 1972 and 1975. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the 1 km time trial and finished in 18th place. On the road, he won the Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden (1975), Le Samyn (1976), Halle–Ingooigem (1978) and Grote 1-MeiPrijs (1979), as well as one stage of the Tour of Belgium (1974). He rode the Tour de France in 1974.
Mitchell Mulhern is an Australian professional racing cyclist. He rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
Matthew Baranoski is an American professional racing cyclist. He rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He also competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the keirin.
Leo Wellens is a Belgian former cyclist. He competed in the team time trial event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He is the brother of fellow racing cyclists Paul and Johan Wellens and the father of cyclist Tim Wellens. At the 1981 Tour de France, he and his brothers all rode for the Sunair–Sport 80–Colnago team as domestiques for Freddy Maertens.
Antoine Houbrechts is a Belgian retired road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 1965 and 1981. He won the 1967 Volta a Portugal and 1968 Vuelta a Andalucía, and rode the Tour de France in 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973 and 1975.
Muhammad Shah Firdaus bin Sahrom is a Malaysian professional racing cyclist. He rode in the men's sprint event at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, coming in 34th out of 35 cyclists. He participated in both Sprint and Keirin cycling events during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the Keirin event where he won a bronze medal and in the sprint event. He competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics, where in the Keirin Final, he finished in sixth place.
Daniel Wyder is a Swiss former racing cyclist. Professional from 1984 to 1992, he won the points race at the 1988 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and rode in five editions of the Giro d'Italia.
