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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 2012 Summer Olympics were the first at which men and women competed in the same number of events in all cycling disciplines, including track cycling, which previously had more men's and fewer women's events than the 2008 programme. [1] However, women have shorter distances for some events.
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 2024.
The marathon races began at the Hôtel de Ville (city hall) and ended in Les Invalides. Along the course, runners traversed many of the city's most iconic sites and Olympic venues throughout the route. [4] This traditional marathon course also set a particularly tough profile with an overall elevation gain or loss of 438 m.
Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 kilometres; Cycling at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 kilometres; Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics – 1/2 mile; Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics – 1/3 mile; Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics – 1/4 mile; Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics – 1 mile; Cycling at the 1904 Summer ...
The current men's world record time is 40.949 seconds. This was set by the Netherlands team of Jeffrey Hoogland , Harrie Lavreysen and Roy van den Berg at the 2024 Paris Olympics . [ 1 ] The women's world record of 45.186 seconds was set by the British team of Emma Finucane , Katy Marchant and Sophie Capewell also at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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.
The men's road race was one of 18 cycling events of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The race started and finished on 6 August at Fort Copacabana and was won by Greg Van Avermaet of Belgium. It was Belgium's first victory in the men's individual road race since 1952 and second overall, tying France and the Soviet Union for second-most ...