Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The men's individual road race event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 3 August 2024 on a course that started at Pont d'Iéna in Paris. [1] Gold medal winner Remco Evenepoel had won the men's time trial event on July 27, making him the only male cyclist to win both the road race and the road time trial at the same Summer Olympic Games.
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 ...
A men's team event was held for four Games—1936, 1948, 1952, and 1956. It was not a separate competition, but an event that involved the results of the individual road race. The Belgian team, winners in 1948, were unaware that there was a team competition and left London without receiving their medals.
The men's road time trial event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 27 July 2024 on a course starting at 16:32 at Pont d'Iéna in Paris. [1] Remco Evenepoel won the race, to gain his first Olympic medal. Filippo Ganna won silver, and Wout van Aert bronze. Ganna is the 2020 Olympic champion in team pursuit, but this was his first medal in ...
The Olympic road race, one of the most iconic events at the Games, is also one with the most turnover in medals. No rider has ever won two gold medals, and only one rider has won two medals; Alexander Vinokourov of Kazakhstan, with a gold medal in London 2012, following a silver medal in Sydney 2000. Until 1992 and the Games in Barcelona, all ...
The road race was a mass-start, one-day road race event. The courses for the men's and women's road races were revealed in August 2018. The men's race started at Musashinonomori Park in Chōfu, western Tokyo, at 11:00 Japan Standard Time and finished at the Fuji Speedway circuit in the Shizuoka prefecture.
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.
The men's road race, one of the cycling events at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, took place on 28 July at 10 a.m. in central and southwest London and north Surrey, [2] starting and finishing on The Mall. [3] This was the 19th appearance of the event, previously held in 1896 and then at every Summer Olympics since 1936.