Competitive history
All results are sourced from the Union Cycliste Internationale.
As of August 7th, 2024
Olympic Games
| Event | Freestyle Park |
|---|---|
 2024 Paris | 12th |
UCI Cycling World Championships
| Event | Freestyle Park |
|---|---|
 2023 Glasgow | 65th |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 27, 1997 Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | BMX freestyle |
Vincent Leygonie (born October 27, 1997) is a South African BMX cyclist in the freestyle discipline. [1]
Leygonie won the 2023 South African national freestyle championships. [2]
In June 2024, Leygonie qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in BMX Freestyle Park event. [3] He became the first African cyclist, male or female, to take part in this event. [4] Leygonie finished 12th in the qualification round and didn't advance to the final.
All results are sourced from the Union Cycliste Internationale.
As of August 7th, 2024
| Event | Freestyle Park |
|---|---|
| 2024 Paris | 12th |
| Event | Freestyle Park |
|---|---|
| 2023 Glasgow | 65th |
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 at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics was held from 7 to 17 October. The events took place at the Parque Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Cycling competitions at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru were held at five venues across Lima. The Circuito BMX held the BMX racing competitions, the Pista de skateboarding held the freestyle BMX events. Morro Solar staged the mountain biking competitions, and the Circuito San Miguel staged the road competitions. Finally the velodrome staged the track cycling competitions.
Logan Martin is an Australian professional Dirt and Park Freestyle BMX rider. In 2021, Martin won the gold medal in the inaugural Men's BMX freestyle event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
The men's BMX freestyle event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 31 July and 1 August 2021 at the Ariake Urban Sports Park. 9 cyclists from 8 nations competed.
The women's BMX freestyle event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 31 July and 1 August 2021 at the Ariake Urban Sports Park. 9 cyclists from 8 nations competed.
Hannah Roberts is an American BMX freestyle cyclist. She is a five-time world champion in the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships and silver medalist in freestyle BMX at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The women's BMX racing competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 29 and 30 July 2021 at the Ariake Urban Sports Park. 24 cyclists from 17 nations competed in the event.
The men's BMX racing competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 29 and 30 July 2021 at the Ariake Urban Sports Park. 24 cyclists from 17 nations competed in the event.
Macarena Pérez Grasset is a Chilean Freestyle BMX cyclist, who won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships.
Perris Benegas is an American freestyle BMX cyclist. She won a silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Natalya Diehm is an Australian cyclist who competes in Freestyle BMX. She was a bronze medalist at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
South Africa competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's ninth consecutive appearance at the Games in the post-apartheid era and twenty-first overall in Summer Olympic history. South Africa won six medals, good for 44th overall in the standings.
The cycling competitions of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris occurred at four different venues, from 27 July to 11 August, featuring twenty-two events across five disciplines.
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.
The women's BMX racing competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 1 and 2 August 2024 at the Vélodrome National de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
The 2023 UCI BMX Freestyle World Championships were held in Glasgow, Scotland between 5 and 10 August 2023. Ordinarily held as part of the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships, in this year the world championships in the disciplines of Park and Flatland both form part of the larger 2023 UCI World Cycling Championships. A 2023 UCI Trials World Championships, generally held with the BMX championships as the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships were held separately.
Kieran Darren David Reilly is a British cyclist from Gateshead who competes in Freestyle BMX. In August 2023 he became the World Champion at the event.
Deng Yawen is a Chinese freestyle BMX cyclist and Olympic champion. She won the gold medal in the women's BMX freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Queen Saray Villegas Serna is a Colombian cyclist who competes in Freestyle BMX. She was a silver medalist at the 2022 South American Games.
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