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Toggle Current events subsection. 1.1 BMX. 1.1.1 Freestyle. ... This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in cycling. Current events. BMX. Freestyle ...
The Olympic road race, one of the most iconic events at the Games, is also one with the most turnover in medals. No rider has ever won two gold medals, and only one rider has won two medals; Alexander Vinokourov of Kazakhstan, with a gold medal in London 2012, following a silver medal in Sydney 2000.
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.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics, she won bronze in the women's 100m dash. [9] Oldest female athletics gold medalist 39 Ellina Zvereva: At the 2000 Summer Olympics, she won gold for the discus throw. [9] Swimming Oldest swimming medalist 41 Dara Torres: Torres won silver for the women's 4x100 freestyle team relay as anchor at the 2008 Summer ...
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 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).
Although a newcomer to cycling, Williams has quickly developed into an elite performer. She was a member of Team USA that captured an Olympic bronze medal in the Women's Team Pursuit in Tokyo in 2022.
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 ...