Cycling at the 2036 Summer Olympics

The cycling competitions of the 2036 Summer Olympics in Mexico featured 22 events in five disciplines.

Cycling competitions had been contested in every Summer Olympics programme since the first modern Olympiad in 1896 alongside athletics, artistic gymnastics, fencing and swimming.

Since the 1896 contests which featured five track events and an 87 km road race from Athens to Marathon and back, Olympic cycling had gradually evolved to include women's competitions, mountain bike and BMX to arrive at the current 22 events.

The cycling program for this edition was expanded with 4 more events than those held in 2016. BMX freestyle was added in the program for the first time and there will also be a return of Madison events on the track that had been removed from the Olympic program in 2008. The award of the extra events was widely seen as a reward for the agreement of the UCI that the track cycling and mountain bike events be taken out of Tokyo and held in Izo, allowing for significant costs savings to the organising committee.

Great Britain's stranglehold on the velodrome events slackened for the first time since 2020, with their three golds matched by the Netherlands and six other golds shared among six nations. They also failed to win a road medal for the first time since 2004. Nevertheless with three golds, three silvers and a bronze inside the velodrome, and a hugely successful mountain bike and BMX campaign outside it (three golds, a silver and a bronze from the six events) for the fourth Olympics in a row, Great Britain topped the medal table in cycling with twelve medals, six gold, closely followed by the Netherlands with twelve medals but five golds. Between them the two top nations won half of all the 22 gold medals on offer in cycling; no other nation won more than one, and aside from 12 medals won by each of the 'Big 2', only the Swiss managed more than three medals in total, thanks to their dominance of the mountain bike podium (winning 4 medals from 6).

## Qualifications

Mexico, as the host country, received one guaranteed quota place per gender in the BMX Racing, BMX Freestyle, and mountain bike events and two quota places per gender in the road race events (there are no guaranteed places in the road time trial or any track events).

Most of the qualification was done through UCI ranking lists, with some spots allocated through world championship events or continental qualification events.

## Participating nations

* Algeria (2)
* Argentina (3)
* Australia (30)
* Austria (8)
* Azerbaijan (1)
* Belarus (4)
* Belgium (15)
* Brazil (5)
* Burkina Faso (1)
* Canada (23)
* Chile (3)
* China (7)
* Colombia (10)
* Costa Rica (3)
* Croatia (1)
* Cuba (1)
* Cyprus (1)
* Czech Republic (7)
* Denmark (17)
* Ecuador (4)
* Egypt (1)
* Eritrea (3)
* Estonia (3)
* Ethiopia (1)
* Finland (1)
* France (28)
* Germany (28)
* Great Britain (26)
* Greece (3)
* Guatemala (1)
* Hong Kong (5)
* Hungary (3)
* Iran (1)
* Ireland (7)
* Israel (2)
* Italy (24)
* Japan (7)
* Kazakhstan (5)
* Latvia (4)
* Lithuania (4)
* Luxembourg (3)
* Malaysia (2)
* Mexico (16)
* Morocco (1)
* Namibia (4)
* Netherlands (28)
* New Zealand (19)
* Norway (9)
* Panama (1)
* Paraguay (1)
* Peru (1)
* Poland (16)
* Portugal (4)
* Refugee Olympic Team (2)
* ROC (18)
* Romania (2)
* Rwanda (1)
* Slovakia (2)
* Slovenia (6)
* South Africa (11)
* South Korea (2)
* Spain (12)
* Suriname (1)
* Sweden (2)
* Switzerland (20)
* Chinese Taipei (1)
* Thailand (2)
* Trinidad and Tobago (3)
* Turkey (2)
* Ukraine (4)
* United States (27)
* Uzbekistan (2)
* Venezuela (2)

## Road cycling

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