Friba Rezayee, is a Hazara judoka, who is perhaps best known as one of the first two women athletes from Afghanistan to compete in the Summer Olympics. The Taliban controlling most of Afghanistan had caused the country to be banned from the Olympics in 1999 due to discrimination against women under Taliban rule as well as its prohibition of sports of any kind, and thus missed out on the Sydney Olympics of the year 2000. In June 2003, the IOC lifted the suspension imposed on Afghanistan during the 115th IOC Session in Prague, and the country sent a delegation of five competitors to the Athens Games in 2004. Rezayee and Robina Muqimyar were two women contingents in the delegation, becoming the first ever women to compete for Afghanistan at the Olympics.
Alessandra Cappellotto is a retired racing cyclist from Italy. She represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics: 1996, and 2000. She won the world title in the women's individual road race at the 1997 UCI Road World Championships in San Sebastian, Spain. Valeria Cappellotto, who died in 2015, was her sister.
Dame Laura Rebecca Kenny, Lady Kenny,, OLY is a former British professional track and road cyclist who specialised in track endurance events, specifically the team pursuit, omnium, scratch race, elimination race and madison disciplines.
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.
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".
Kim Pienaar is a Mauritian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step. Born to a Mauritian father and a Scottish mother, Le Court represented Mauritius at the 2019 African Games in cycling, winning two medals: gold in the women's cross-country marathon and the bronze in the women's cross-country Olympic event.
Valcar–Travel & Service is a professional road bicycle racing women's team which participates in elite women's races.
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.
Ethan Edward Hayter is a British road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers and the Great Britain track cycling team.
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.
Ally Wollaston is a New Zealand professional track racing cyclist and road cyclist riding for AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step. She was a double-medallist at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Kristen Faulkner is an American racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team EF–Oatly–Cannondale. She is the current USA National Road Race Champion and won two gold medals in the women's individual road race and women's track cycling team pursuit at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Faulkner is the first American woman, and third female Olympian, in history to win two gold medals in two different disciplines in the same Olympic Games.
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.
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.
Fariba Hashimi is an Afghan racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team WCC Team. She is competing in the road race at the 2024 Paris Olympics alongside her sister Yulduz, despite the Taliban government's ban on women in sports.
