# Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics

The cycling competitions of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris occurred at four different venues (Pont d'Iéna for road and time trial races; Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines for track cycling and BMX racing; Élancourt Hill for mountain biking; and Place de la Concorde for the BMX freestyle), from 27 July to 11 August, featuring twenty-two events across five disciplines.
Cycling competitions have been contested in every Summer Olympics edition since the modern Olympiad revived in 1896, along with athletics, artistic gymnastics, fencing and swimming.
A total of 514 cyclists have competed at Paris 2024 with an equal split between men and women for the first time in the sport's history, attaining the goal of gender equality as one of the objectives ratified by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Having already been achieved in mountain biking, BMX racing, and BMX freestyle on the Tokyo 2020 program, several significant changes were instituted in the road and track cycling, with some men's quota places transferred to the women's side and with the number of riders in women's team sprint increasing from two to three. Conforming to the recommendations of the International Olympic Committee's 2020 agenda, cycling had fourteen fewer places at these Games than those in 2020, a reduction that affected road racing and mountain biking. Nonetheless, the distribution of an extra place for track cycling and six in BMX freestyle, with the number of athletes competing in the men's and women's events increasing from nine to twelve, partly counteracted the moderate decrease in the cycling spots offered at these Games.
Despite the modest quota decrease, cycling featured a total of twenty-two medal events across five disciplines, similar to the 2020 program format. While the sport continued to run on all days between the opening and closing ceremonies, Paris 2024 witnessed some scheduling changes contrary to the previous edition; hence, the men's and women's individual time trial medalists were awarded on the first day of the competition.
For road cycling there was a special training venue, Polygone de Vincennes [fr], so the cyclists were not dependent on the (busy) roads of Paris.
The 20-year reign of Great Britain at the top of the Olympic cycling table was finally broken, as home nation France topped a tightly contested table with three gold medals, tied with Australia, Netherlands, United States, with Belgium, New Zealand and Great Britain just one gold medal behind. Despite the significant drop in gold medals, Great Britain won the most overall medals, with 11.

## Qualification

As the host country, France reserved a men's and women's quota place in BMX racing, BMX freestyle, and mountain biking; and two more in the men's and women's road races. When one or two French cyclists qualify directly and regularly, their spare slots were reallocated to the next highest-ranked eligible NOCs in the aforementioned events based on the national order of the UCI World Ranking list by October 17, 2023.
About ninety percent of the total quota places were attributed through the UCI World Ranking lists of their respective disciplines, with some spots offered for the cyclists at the 2023 UCI World Championships and at continental qualification tournaments (Africa, Asia, and the Americas).

## Competition schedule

BMX, mountain biking and road cycling :
| Event↓/Date → | Sat 27 | Sun 28 | Mon 29 | Tue 30 | Wed 31 | Thu 1 | Thu 1 | Fri 2 | Fri 2 | Sat 3 | Sun 4 |
| BMX ||||||||||||
| Men's freestyle | | | | Q | F | | | | | | |
| Men's racing | | | | | | ¼ | LC | ½ | F | | |
| Women's freestyle | | | | Q | F | | | | | | |
| Women's racing | | | | | | ¼ | LC | ½ | F | | |
| Mountain biking ||||||||||||
| Men's cross-country | | | F | | | | | | | | |
| Women's cross-country | | F | | | | | | | | | |
| Road cycling ||||||||||||
| Men's road race | | | | | | | | | | F | |
| Men's time trial | F | | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's road race | | | | | | | | | | | F |
| Women's time trial | F | | | | | | | | | | |
Track cycling :
| Event↓/Date → | Mon 5 | Mon 5 | Mon 5 | Tue 6 | Tue 6 | Wed 7 | Wed 7 | Thu 8 | Thu 8 | Thu 8 | Thu 8 | Fri 9 | Fri 9 | Sat 10 | Sat 10 | Sun 11 | Sun 11 | Sun 11 | Sun 11 |
| | A | A | A | A | A | M | A | A | A | A | A | M | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
| Men's sprint | | | | | | H | H | ¼ | ¼ | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | F | | | | | | |
| Men's team sprint | H | H | H | ½ | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Men's keirin | | | | | | | | | | | | | | H | | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | F |
| Men's team pursuit | H | H | H | ½ | ½ | | F | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Men's omnium | | | | | | | | SR | TR | ER | PR | | | | | | | | |
| Men's madison | | | | | | | | | | | | | | F | F | | | | |
| Women's sprint | | | | | | | | | | | | H | H | H | ¼ | ½ | ½ | F | F |
| Women's team sprint | H | ½ | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's keirin | | | | | | H | | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | F | | | | | | | | |
| Women's team pursuit | | | | H | H | ½ | F | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's omnium | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SR | TR | ER | PR |
| Women's madison | | | | | | | | | | | | F | F | | | | | | |

## Participation

In total of 514 quotas and 267 cyclists from 75 NOCs:
* Afghanistan (2)
* Algeria (2)
* Argentina (2)
* Aruba (1)
* Australia (21)
* Austria (9)
* Belgium (22)
* Brazil (6)
* Burkina Faso (1)
* Canada (22)
* Chile (3)
* China (9)
* Colombia (15)
* Costa Rica (2)
* Cuba (1)
* Cyprus (1)
* Czech Republic (6)
* Denmark (16)
* Ecuador (2)
* Egypt (3)
* Eritrea (1)
* Estonia (2)
* Finland (2)
* France (31) Host
* Germany (24)
* Great Britain (30)
* Greece (1)
* Hong Kong (2)
* Hungary (3)
* Individual Neutral Athletes (3)
* Indonesia (1)
* Iran (1)
* Ireland (7)
* Israel (4)
* Italy (21)
* Japan (18)
* Kazakhstan (3)
* Latvia (6)
* Liechtenstein (1)
* Lithuania (3)
* Luxembourg (2)
* Malaysia (4)
* Mauritius (3)
* Mexico (8)
* Mongolia (1)
* Morocco (2)
* Namibia (2)
* Netherlands (21)
* New Zealand (23)
* Nigeria (1)
* Norway (6)
* Panama (1)
* Poland (13)
* Portugal (7)
* Romania (1)
* Rwanda (3)
* Serbia (2)
* Slovakia (2)
* Slovenia (7)
* South Africa (7)
* South Korea (2)
* Spain (9)
* Suriname (1)
* Sweden (3)
* Switzerland (18)
* Thailand (4)
* Trinidad and Tobago (1)
* Turkey (1)
* Uganda (1)
* Ukraine (4)
* United Arab Emirates (1)
* United States (23)
* Uruguay (1)
* Uzbekistan (3)
* Venezuela (1)
* Vietnam (1)

## Medal summary
### Medal table

* Host nation (France)
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | France* | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | Australia | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 4 | United States | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | Great Britain | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | New Zealand | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | Belgium | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | Italy | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | Portugal | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Argentina | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | South Africa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (17 entries) | Totals (17 entries) | 22 | 22 | 22 | 66 |

### Road cycling

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's road race details | Remco Evenepoel Belgium | Valentin Madouas France | Christophe Laporte France |
| Men's time trial details | Remco Evenepoel Belgium | Filippo Ganna Italy | Wout van Aert Belgium |
| Women's road race details | Kristen Faulkner United States | Marianne Vos Netherlands | Lotte Kopecky Belgium |
| Women's time trial details | Grace Brown Australia | Anna Henderson Great Britain | Chloé Dygert United States |

### Track cycling
#### Men's

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Sprint details | Harrie Lavreysen Netherlands | Matthew Richardson Australia | Jack Carlin Great Britain |
| Team sprint details | Netherlands Roy van den Berg Harrie Lavreysen Jeffrey Hoogland | Great Britain Ed Lowe Hamish Turnbull Jack Carlin | Australia Leigh Hoffman Matthew Richardson Matthew Glaetzer |
| Keirin details | Harrie Lavreysen Netherlands | Matthew Richardson Australia | Matthew Glaetzer Australia |
| Madison details | Portugal Iúri Leitão Rui Oliveira | Italy Simone Consonni Elia Viviani | Denmark Niklas Larsen Michael Mørkøv |
| Omnium details | Benjamin Thomas France | Iúri Leitão Portugal | Fabio Van den Bossche Belgium |
| Team pursuit details | Australia Oliver Bleddyn Sam Welsford Conor Leahy Kelland O'Brien | Great Britain Ethan Hayter Daniel Bigham Charlie Tanfield Ethan Vernon Oliver Wood | Italy Simone Consonni Filippo Ganna Francesco Lamon Jonathan Milan |

#### Women's

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Sprint details | Ellesse Andrews New Zealand | Lea Friedrich Germany | Emma Finucane Great Britain |
| Team sprint details | Great Britain Katy Marchant Sophie Capewell Emma Finucane | New Zealand Rebecca Petch Shaane Fulton Ellesse Andrews | Germany Pauline Grabosch Emma Hinze Lea Sophie Friedrich |
| Keirin details | Ellesse Andrews New Zealand | Hetty van de Wouw Netherlands | Emma Finucane Great Britain |
| Madison details | Italy Chiara Consonni Vittoria Guazzini | Great Britain Elinor Barker Neah Evans | Netherlands Maike van der Duin Lisa van Belle |
| Omnium details | Jennifer Valente United States | Daria Pikulik Poland | Ally Wollaston New Zealand |
| Team pursuit details | United States Jennifer Valente Lily Williams Chloé Dygert Kristen Faulkner | New Zealand Ally Wollaston Bryony Botha Emily Shearman Nicole Shields | Great Britain Elinor Barker Josie Knight Anna Morris Jessica Roberts |

### Mountain biking

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's cross-country details | Tom Pidcock Great Britain | Victor Koretzky France | Alan Hatherly South Africa |
| Women's cross-country details | Pauline Ferrand-Prévot France | Haley Batten United States | Jenny Rissveds Sweden |

### BMX

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's race details | Joris Daudet France | Sylvain André France | Romain Mahieu France |
| Women's race details | Saya Sakakibara Australia | Manon Veenstra Netherlands | Zoé Claessens Switzerland |
| Men's freestyle details | José Torres Argentina | Kieran Reilly Great Britain | Anthony Jeanjean France |
| Women's freestyle details | Deng Yawen China | Perris Benegas United States | Natalya Diehm Australia |