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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 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).
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.
Kristen Faulkner, of the United States, celebrates winning the women's road cycling event, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, in Paris, France.
This weekend brings the men’s and women’s road races at the Olympic Games in Paris, with the men completing a 272.1km road race on Saturday and the women completing a 157.6km road race on ...
MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France (AP) — Olympic road race champion Kristen Faulkner will go for her second gold medal of the Paris Games with U.S. teammates Chloe Dygert, Jennifer Valente and ...
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 ...
The former venture capitalist outsmarted legends Marianne Vos and Lotte Kopecky to become the first American to win the Olympic road race since 1984.