Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Cycling at the Games of the Olympiad
Pictograms from top, left to right: BMX freestyle, BMX racing, road, mountain biking, and track cycling.
Venue	Pont d'Iéna (road race) Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (track and BMX racing) Élancourt Hill (mountain biking) Invalides (road time trial start) Place de la Concorde (BMX freestyle) Pont Alexandre III (road time trial finish) Polygone de Vincennes [fr] (road training)
Dates	27 July – 11 August 2024
No. of events	22 (11 men, 11 women)
Competitors	514
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Get ready for some exciting bike action! Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will feature many different races. These events will take place from July 27 to August 11, 2024.

Cycling has been a part of the Summer Olympics since the very first modern Games in 1896. It's one of the few sports that has been in every single Olympics!

For the first time ever, the 2024 Paris Olympics will have an equal number of male and female cyclists. A total of 514 athletes will compete. This is a big step for gender equality in sports! There will be 22 medal events across five different types of cycling.

The cycling events will happen at four main places in and around Paris:

The Pont d'Iéna will host the road races.
The Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines is for track cycling and BMX racing.
Élancourt Hill is where mountain biking will take place.
The Place de la Concorde will be the spot for BMX freestyle.

Cyclists also had a special training area at Polygone de Vincennes [fr] for road cycling. This meant they did not have to train on busy city streets.

How athletes qualify
Competition schedule
Medal winners
See also

How athletes qualify

To compete in the Olympics, cyclists must qualify. Most spots are given based on how well countries rank in the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) World Rankings. These rankings show which countries have the best cyclists.

Some spots are also given at the 2023 UCI World Championships. Plus, there are special qualification events for different parts of the world, like Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

As the host country, France automatically gets some spots in BMX racing, BMX freestyle, mountain biking, and road races. This helps ensure that the home country is well-represented.

Competition schedule

Want to know when your favorite cycling events are happening? Here's a quick look at the schedule for BMX, mountain biking, and road cycling.

Legend
H	Heats/preliminaries	¼	Quarterfinals	LC	Last chance run	½	Semifinals	F	Final

BMX, mountain biking and road cycling
Event↓/Date →	Sat 27	Sun 28	Mon 29	Tue 30	Wed 31	Thu 1		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

And here's the schedule for track cycling events:

Track cycling
Event↓/Date →	Mon 5			Tue 6		Wed 7		Thu 8				Fri 9		Sat 10		Sun 11
	A			A		M	A	A				M	A	A		A
Men's sprint						H		¼				½	F
Men's team sprint	H			½	F
Men's keirin														H		¼		½	F
Men's team pursuit	H			½			F
Men's omnium								SR	TR	ER	PR
Men's madison														F
Women's sprint												H			¼	½		F
Women's team sprint	H	½	F
Women's keirin						H		¼		½	F
Women's team pursuit				H		½	F
Women's omnium																SR	TR	ER	PR
Women's madison												F

M = Morning session, A = Afternoon session
SR = Scratch race, TR = Tempo race, ER = Elimination race, PR = Points race

Medal winners

Here's a summary of which countries won medals in cycling at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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
China	1	0	0	1
12	Germany	0	1	1	2
13	Poland	0	1	0	1
14	Denmark	0	0	1	1
South Africa	0	0	1	1
Sweden	0	0	1	1
Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)	22	22	22	66

Road cycling

These are the medal winners for the road cycling events.

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

Track cycling takes place on a special indoor track called a velodrome.

Men's track cycling

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 track cycling

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

Mountain biking involves racing bikes over rough, natural terrain.

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

BMX cycling includes both racing and freestyle events, where riders perform tricks.

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 Gil Argentina	Kieran Reilly Great Britain	Anthony Jeanjean France
Women's freestyle details	Deng Yawen China	Perris Benegas United States	Natalya Diehm Australia