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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.
This is a list of cyclists who competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The cyclists competed in 22 cycling events in the disciplines: BMX , mountain biking , road cycling , and track cycling .
This was the 7th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics since mountain bike cycling was added to the programme in 1996. The reigning Olympic champion was Nino Schurter of Switzerland, and the reigning (2020) World Champion was Jordan Sarrou of France.
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 ...
The reigning (2008) Olympic champions were Juan Curuchet and Walter Pérez of Argentina. The reigning (2020) World Champions were Lasse Norman Hansen and Michael Mørkøv of Denmark. Russia, Germany, China, Great Britain, Australia, and the Netherlands are traditionally strong track cycling nations.
The omnium also moved from a two-day format in prior Games to a one-day format in 2020. The winner of the omnium is the cyclist who obtains the most points through the four races. 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.
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 ...
This was the first women's track cycling gold medal for the United States. [3] As the last final held during the 2020 Summer Olympics, the medals were presented by Yasuhiro Yamashita, IOC member, Olympian, 1 Gold Medal, Japan; and the medalists' bouquets were presented by David Lappartient, President of the UCI, France.