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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 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 ...
2024 Olympic Games: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France [7] 500 m time trial (progression) 33.952 Anna Meares Australia: 20 August 2004 2004 Olympic Games: Athens, Greece [8] Team sprint (500 m) (progression) ♦31.804 Bao Shanju Zhong Tianshi China 2 August 2021 2020 Olympic Games: Izu, Japan [9] Team sprint (750 m) (progression) ♦45.186 Katy ...
With three gold medals on the road, the most successful Olympic road cyclist is Viatcheslav Ekimov of Russia and the Soviet Union (Ekimov had a fourth gold on the track). ). Only one rider has won gold in both the road race and the road time trial at the same Olympic Games; Remco Evenepoel of Belgium in Paris 2
1.4 Track cycling. 1.4.1 Keirin. 1.4.2 ... 3 All-time medal table (women's) 1984 ... This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in cycling. Current events ...
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.
Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics consisted of 18 events in three disciplines: Road cycling, held at the Athens historic centre (start and finish at Kotzia Square, for the road race events) and in Vouliagmeni Olympic Centre (for the time trial events). Track cycling, held at the Olympic Velodrome.
Cycling competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics were held from August 9 to August 23 at the Laoshan Velodrome (track events), Laoshan Mountain Bike Course, Laoshan BMX Field and the Beijing Cycling Road Course.