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View history; Tools. ... This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in cycling ... The individual sprint was first contested in the Olympics in 1988 and ...
Women's track events were added in 1988, and both types of events have been featured since then. 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 ]
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 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.
The men's road race was 234 kilometres long with a total elevation of 4865 m. The women's race was 137 km long with a total elevation of 2692 metres. [11] The first part of the men's and women's races is identical. The course first passes through the mostly flat outskirts of Tokyo's metropolitan area.
This is an overview of the progression of the Olympic track cycling record of the women's 500 m team sprint as recognised by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). [1] The women's 500 m team sprint was introduced at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Kenny won a gold medal in the team pursuit with Dani King and Joanna Rowsell. [17] The team set a world record time of 3:14.051 in this event. [18] Including pre-Olympics races and the Olympics final itself, in the six times they had ridden together they had broken the world record in every race. [17]
The women's sprint event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place from 6 to 8 August 2021 at the Izu Velodrome. [1] [2] 30 cyclists from 18 nations competed. [3]Canadian rider Kelsey Mitchell won gold, with Olena Starikova from Ukraine and Lee Wai-sze from Hong-Kong completing the medal positions.