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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).
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 ...
The men's individual road race event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 24 July 2021 on a course starting at Musashinonomori Park in Tokyo, and ending at the Fuji Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture. [1] 128 cyclists from 57 nations competed, [2] with 85 completing the course. The race was won by Richard Carapaz of Ecuador.
The former venture capitalist outsmarted legends Marianne Vos and Lotte Kopecky to become the first American to win the Olympic road race since 1984.
Mountain bike racing entered the Olympic programme at the Atlanta Olympics, followed by BMX racing in 2008 and freestyle BMX in 2020. 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 ...
From 1921 to 1964, the Amateur Bicycle League of America (ABLA) National Championships were held as an omnium of track-style events for Men, Women, and Juniors, rather than as a road race. In 1964 the American Cycling Newsletter (later Bicycling ) reported the results of a Flemington, NJ race as the national road racing championships, but these ...
Road cycling events at the Summer Olympics [6] Race Date Gold Silver Bronze Ref Individual Time Trial: 28 July Primož Roglič (SLO) Tom Dumoulin (NED) Rohan Dennis (AUS) [7] Road Race: 24 July Richard Carapaz (ECU) Wout van Aert (BEL) Tadej Pogačar (SLO) [8]
The women's individual road race event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 25 July 2021 on a course starting at Musashinonomori Park in Tokyo and ending at the Fuji Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture. [1] 67 cyclists from 40 nations competed, with 48 completing the course. [2] The race was won by rank outsider Anna Kiesenhofer of Austria ...