2024 Olympics Cycling Events: Comprehensive guide to road, mountain bike and track cycling events | Paris Summer Olympic Games

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Jennifer Valente wins gold for USA in women's Omnium

The USA’s Jennifer Valente, the reigning Olympic and World Champion, dominated the women’s Omnium, winning three of the four events to capture the gold medal, the second of the games after the gold in the women's team pursuit. Poland’s Daria Pikulik earned the silver medal and New Zealand’s Ally Wollaston secured the bronze.

New Zealand's Ellesse Andrews wins gold medal in women's Sprint

New Zealand's Ellesse Andrews won every heat on her path to claiming the gold medal in the women’s Sprint. This victory marked her second gold in Paris, following her win in the Keirin, along with a silver in the team sprint. Lea Friedrich (Germany), who set a new world record for the flying 200 metres in the qualification round, won silver while reigning  World Champion Emma Finucane (Great Britain) took bronze.

Harrie Lavreysen breaks GB medal streak as he takes gold in men's Keirin

Already a two-time gold medallist this week - in the individual and team sprint - Harrie Lavreysen (Netherlands) led the very fast keirin race to win his third Olympic title in Paros, and his fifth gold medal after his previous victories at Tokyo 2020. Australia's Matthew Richardson won silver and Matthew Glaetzer took bronze in his final Olympic Games.

Madison mayhem sees Portugal snatch gold as Italy suffer late crash

The Portugal duo of Iuri Leitao and Rui Oliveira stunned the world at the Paris Olympics when they took advantage of a chaotic men's madison to win the gold medal.  Pre-race favourites Simone Consonni and Elia Viviani claimed silver after Consonni crashed after a mishap during an exchange. Denmark's Michael Mørkøv and and Niklas Larsen won the bronze.

Harrie Lavreysen repeats as men's individual Sprint gold medallist

Harrie Lavreysen (Netherlands) repeated with the gold medal in the men’s Sprint, this time sweeping the two races to distance Australian Matthew Richardson at the Paris Olympic Games. In the battle for the bronze, Jack Carlin (Great Britain) overpowered the reigning silver medallist Jeffrey Hoogland (Netherlands) in the decider. 

Italy upsets Great Britain to win women's Madison

Italy's Chiara Consonni and Vittoria Guazzini won the gold medal in the women's Madison at the Paris Olympics. The team won three of the 12 sprints in the 120-lap race and added 20 points for lapping the field to post 37 points, six points better than Great Britain (Elinor Barker and Neah Evans), who took silver. 

Netherlands' Maike van der Duin and Lisa van Belle, who stole a lap with 48 laps to go to move into the lead, only scored eight points in sprints for a total of 28 and finished with bronze.

Velodrome rings out with 'Allez Les Bleus' as France's Benjamin Thomas wins men's Omnium

Benjamin Thomas (France) made a victory in the points race his punctuation for the home fans and secured the gold medal in the men's Omnium. He overcame a crash and a miscue by the officials in the elimination race to seal an 11-point advantage over silver medallist Iuri Leitao (Portugal), the reigning world champion. Fabio Van Den Bossche (Belgium) finished sixth in the points race to earn the bronze, just closing out Albert Torres (Spain), who was four points off in the final score.

Ellesse Andrews takes gold for New Zealand in women's Keirin

New Zealand's Ellesse Andrews captured the women's Keirin gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games. Dutch rider Hetty van de Wouw secured the silver when she made a late pass of Emma Finucane of Great Britain, who took the bronze. Andrews was solid in her qualifying and semifinal heats, and used the same strength to take the gold.

USA holds off New Zealand for gold in women's team pursuit

Team USA won the country's first gold medal in the women's Team Pursuit as the quartet of Jennifer Valente, Lily Williams, Chloe Dygert and Kristen Faulkner beat New Zealand by half a second at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome. Both teams finished with three riders crossing the line, and Team USA finished in in 4:04.306, only a fraction of a second from a new world record. Great Britain’s foursome - Elinor Barker, Josie Knight, Anna Morris and Jessica Roberts - then put in a charge in the final kilometre to beat Italy for the bronze.

Australia beats Great Britain to take men's Team Pursuit gold

Australia secured men's Team Pursuit gold in a tight battle with Great Britain, the quartet of quartet of Sam Welsford, Oliver Bleddyn, Conor Leahy and Kelland O’Brien finishing with a time of 3:42.067. In the final 250 metres, one rider on Great Britain's squad slipped off the saddle to avoid a crash and dropped away from two other teammates, which resulted in lost time and the silver medal for Daniel Bigham, Ethan Hayter, Charlie Tanfield, Oliver Wood and Ethan Hayter. It was the first gold in the discipline for Australia since the 2004 Olympics. Italy beat Denmark for the bronze medal.

The Netherlands break 41-second barrier in winning gold in men's Team Sprint

The Netherlands beat their own World record and Olympic record with the fastest time of 40.949 to win the gold in the men's Sprint at the Paris Olympic Games. Great Britain secured silver and Australia took the bronze. Roy van den Berg, Harrie Lavreysen and Jeffrey Hoogland had already set new Olympic and World records in both the qualification and first rounds for the Netherlands, and then raised the bar again in the gold-medal final.

Great Britain secure gold and new world record in women's Team Sprint

Great Britain dominated with new World and Olympic records of 45.186 seconds to win the gold in the women's Sprint at the Paris Olympic Games. Katy Marchant, Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell rode a full 0.296 seconds quicker than China's record that stood before the day. The silver medal went to New Zealand's Rebecca Petch, Shaane Fulton and Ellesse Andrews. Defending Olympic champions Germany, who won the two-rider, 500-metre Tokyo Team Sprint, took the bronze in the new three-rider format in Paris.

Kristen Faulkner shocks favourites with solo victory in women's road race

As it happened: Kristen Faulkner powers to gold in Olympic Road Race

Kristen Faulkner (United States) used a late, solo attack to capture the gold medal in the women's road race at the Paris Olympic Games. She bolted from a lead group of four riders with 3km to go and finished with a 58-second gap.

Marianne Vos (Netherlands) claimed the silver medal in a three-rider sprint, with leading favourite Lotte Kopecky (Belgium) clinching bronze ahead of Hungarian champion Blanka Vas.

Remco Evenepoel overcomes puncture and powers to second gold in Paris with convincing men's road race victory

As it happened: Remco Evenepoel takes golden double as he solos to road race win in Paris

Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) soloed to victory at the men's road race in the Paris Olympic Games and became the first-ever male rider to secure both road and time trial titles in the same Olympics.

France scored the other two medals, as Valentin Madouas won the silver, 1:11 back, and his compatriot Christophe Laporte took the bronze, riding ahead of a reduced bunch sprint of nine contenders.

Tom Pidcock beats Victor Koretzky in thrilling race for men's mountain bike gold

Tom Pidcock (Great Britain) successfully defended his cross-country mountain bike gold at the Paris Olympic Games, winning a heated battle for the victory against Victor Koretzky (France), who claimed the silver medal in the race held at Elancourt Hill, just outside of Paris. Alan Hatherly (South Africa) secured the bronze medal.

Paris Olympics: Pauline Ferrand-Prévot takes stunning women's cross-country mountain bike gold for France

France's Pauline Ferrand-Prévot dominated the women's cross-country race to win the gold medal at her fourth and final Olympic Games. She attacked on the second lap and never looked back, crossing the line with almost three minutes over her closest competitors.

Behind her, the battle raged for the silver medal with Haley Batten (USA) prevailed over Jenny Rissveds (Sweden) who took bronze.

Paris Olympics: Remco Evenepoel roars to gold medal for Belgium in men's time trial ahead of Ganna

As it happened: Belgium nets gold in thrilling men's time trial at Paris Olympics

Belgium's Remco Evenepoel was in complete control of the 32.4km men's individual time trial at the Paris Olympic Games to win the gold medal on Saturday. The world champion set the fastest time at both intermediate time check, and clocked a time of  36:12 on the wet slippery roads with an average speed of 53.7kph.

After avoiding a crash on the wet and slippery roads, Italy's Filippo Ganna claimed the silver medal, 15 seconds back.  Wout van Aert (Belgium) took the bronze, an additional ten seconds off the winning pace. 

Paris Olympics: Grace Brown storms to gold for Australia in women's time trial

As it happened: Gold for Australia in rain-soaked and crash-marred women's Olympic time trial

In what she announced as her final year of competition, Australia's Grace Brown smashed the 32.4km women's individual time trial at the Paris Olympic Games to win the gold medal. Her time of 39:38 was more than a full minute and a half faster than any of her 34 competitors.

British time trial champion Anna Henderson (Great Britain) would come the closest, 1:31 back, for the silver medal and Chloé Dygert (USA) took third, a slim one second away from the silver medal. The American time trial champion crashed hard on the wet roads but was able to recover to claim the bronze medal. 

Paris Olympic Games

The Paris Olympics begin on July 26 with the cycling events starting on the second day of competition with the men's and women's individual time trials.

With the Olympics starting just after the 2024 Tour de France, the winner of both the Giro d'Italia and Tour, Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia) announced he would not compete in the Paris Olympics due to fatigue.

Pogačar won the bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics behind gold medalist Richard Carapaz - who will also not appear after not making Ecuador's selection - and silver medalist Wout van Aert.

Tokyo individual time trial champion Primož Roglič will not defend his Olympic title either, while fellow medalists Tom Dumoulin and Rohan Dennis have since retired, making Van Aert the only men's road medalist to return for Paris 2024.

On the women's side, time trial medalists Annemiek van Vleuten (gold), Marlen Reusser (silver) and Anna van der Breggen (bronze) will not compete in Paris. The two Dutch riders have retired while Reusser has been diagnosed with post-viral syndrome and withdrew from Switzerland's selection.

From the road race podium in Tokyo, champion Anna Kiesenhofer will return to defend her title. Van Vleuten won silver in 2021 and will not compete this year, but bronze medalist Elisa Longo Borghini of Italy goes into the Paris Games as one of the favourites to win.

On the mountain bike side, Tom Pidcock will defend his title in the men's cross country and will have silver medalist from Tokyo, Switzerland's Mathias Flückiger and bronze medalist David Valero (Spain) as rivals in Paris.

Defending women's cross country champion Jolanda Neff withdrew from Switzerland's selection because of breathing problems but will be replaced by last year's silver medalist Sina Frei. Linda Indergand, part of Switzerland's historic medal sweep, will not be on the line.

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Track cycling events

There are six Olympic track cycling events, with equal numbers of riders for men and women in each event.

The Team Sprint includes three riders each from eight qualified countries. Three riders begin with a standing start for this three-lap race, with each rider taking a one-lap turn to increase the speed before pulling off. The last rider's three-lap time decides the winner.

For the Team Pursuit, 10 different teams are pitted against each other in twos - starting on opposite sides of the track. Four riders work together over four kilometres (16 laps) to set the fastest time. The competition takes place across three rounds until there are only four teams left, two fighting for the gold and silver medals, and two racing for the bronze medal.

A second endurance event is the Omnium, which is a series of four different races: the Scratch, Elimination, Tempo and Points Races. Points are scored based on a rider's finishing position in each race until the Points Race, the final event. The points gained in the intermediate sprints and finish determine the Omnium winner.

The Madison includes a maximum of 15 teams from different countries, with riders being selected from entrants of the other endurance events, the Omnium and Team Pursuit.

More fast-twitch athletes come to the fore for the Keirin - a short, mass-start sprint event where up to six riders compete to be first across the line. The top riders move onto the next round until there are only six riders competing for the gold, silver and bronze medals.

The Sprint is the final event for these riders. It begins with riders racing for the fastest time on a flying start 200 metre dash. Then, riders are paired up to sprint against each other in a best-of-three contest. The competition continue in heats until four riders remain to compete for the gold and silver, or the bronze medal.

• Team Sprint
• Individual Sprint
• Keirin
• Team Pursuit
• Omnium
• Madison

2024 Olympics cycling schedule