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The women's individual road race event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 4 August 2024 on a course starting at 14:00 at Pont d'Iéna in Paris. [1]Kristen Faulkner, despite being a replacement in the 2024 Olympic team, became the first American to win a road racing gold in 40 years since Connie Carpenter at the road race in 1984.
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 ...
The women's road time trial event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 27 July 2024 on a course starting at 14:30 at Pont d'Iéna in Paris. [1] Grace Brown, who started the second last, won the race. Anna Henderson won silver, and Chloé Dygert bronze, despite having fallen.
Before the 2020 Summer Olympics, all events were speed races, but the 2020 programme featured BMX freestyle for the first time. Women's road events were introduced to the Olympic programme at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Women's track events were added in 1988, and both types of events have been featured since then.
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 women's race started at Musashinonomori Park in Chōfu, western Tokyo, at 13:00 Japan Standard Time and finished at the Fuji Speedway circuit in the Shizuoka prefecture.
The winner of each of the first three races earns 40 points, the second-place cyclist earns 38, the third-place rider 36, and so forth, and the final race has special scoring rules. The races in the omnium are: Scratch race: Mass start race; first to cross the finish line is the winner. Distance is 7.5 km (30 laps).
The men's road race was first held at the 1896, was not held again for 40 years, then has been held every Summer Games since the 1936 Summer Olympics. The women's event was first contested at the 1984 Summer Olympics, being the first women's cycling event (track events were added in 1988).
A team pursuit race involves two teams of four cyclists. Each team starts at opposite sides of the track. There are two ways to win: finish 16 laps (4 km) before the other team does or catch the other team.