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Olympic Games, 2024
Location: Paris, France
Dates: July 27 – August 11, 2024
Events: highway, monitor, mountain bike and BMX
Useful hyperlinks: Event schedule | Road race and time trial programs | Men’s highway race begin checklist | Women’s highway race begin checklist | Men’s time trial begin checklist | Women’s time trial begin checklist | Guide to trace biking | Guide to mountain biking
While biking of each flavour has its main annual occasions wherein every rider strives for achievement, each 4 years a possibility arises to take a uncommon and historic gold medal on the Olympic Games.
For the Paris 2024 Olympic biking occasions, nonetheless, the riders have had simply three years years. Originally scheduled for July/August 2020, the Tokoyo Games had been moved to 2021 as a result of Covid pandemic. So there can be new winners simply three years on.
There can be 4 several types of biking on present in Paris and its environs: highway, monitor, BMX and mountain biking, with many sub-disciplines a part of that.
The highway time trials come first, awarding a number of the first medals of the Olympics on Saturday 27 July, with the highway races following per week after – the boys on Saturday 3 August, and the ladies the day after on Sunday 4 August.
Many of the world’s greatest riders from the skilled highway peloton can be in attendance, with reigning world champions Lotte Kopecky (Belgium) and Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands) scorching favourites within the highway races. Defending girls’s champion Ana Kiesenhofer (Austria) can be there, however she is unlikely to shock the sphere once more. Meanwhile, Richard Carapaz (Ecuador), gold medallist at Tokyo, has not be chosen.
There can be a brand new champion within the girls’s time trial, with Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands) having retired since final time round, whereas it isn’t but identified if Primož Roglič (Slovenia) will deal with it but.
Of course there’s rather more than highway biking on the Olympic Games, with a number of monitor occasions to get pleasure from, six in whole: the workforce pursuit, the omnium, the Madison, the dash, the workforce dash, and the keirin. All the monitor occasions happen between 5 August and the ultimate day of the Games on 11 August.
Elsewhere, there will be the ladies’s and males’s cross-country mountain biking races, which occur on Sunday 28 July and Monday 29 July, respectively.
Finally there’s the 2 BMX occasions, making their return for the second time, Freestyle and the Racing. The Freestyle takes place on Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 July, with the Racing on Thursday 1 and Friday 2 August.
Road occasions
The solely race you possibly can actually evaluate the Olympics highway race to is the World Championships. Both races are often based mostly round circuits, with riders competing for his or her nations and never their commerce groups.
However, groups are a lot smaller than World Championships, with the most important squads within the highway races boasting simply 4 riders, which makes it very attention-grabbing tactically. Many groups have only one rider in the entire occasion.
In the Olympics, riders have to attend for an additional 4, or 5, on this case, years earlier than having one other go at successful. In the World Championships, riders can attempt each 12 months. There aren’t too many probabilities to go for a gold medal in knowledgeable profession, so it attracts a subject of world-class expertise.
Track occasions
After the highway occasions, we see the monitor riders take to the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome on Monday, August 2 via to Sunday, August 8.
The riders will compete within the workforce pursuit, dash, workforce dash, omnium, the keirin and the Madison. The pursuit, omnium and Madison are what are referred to as “endurance” occasions, suiting some highway riders too, whereas the sprints and the keirin are dash occasions, for pure powerhouses.
For an in-depth rationalization of every occasion, try our information to trace biking disciplines.
Paris 2024 Olympic biking schedule
Road races
Saturday 3 August, males’s highway race, 10am-5:15pm, (273km)
Sunday 4 August, girls’s highway race, 1pm-5:45pm (158km)
Time trials
Saturday 27 July, males’s and ladies’s particular person time trials, 2:30pm-6:30pm (each 32.4km)
Track
Monday 5 August, 5pm
Women’s Team Sprint, qualifying
Men’s, Team Pursuit, qualifying
Women’s Team Sprint, first spherical
Men’s Team Sprint, qualifying
Women’s Team Sprint, finals
Tuesday 6 August, 5:30pm
Women’s Team Pursuit, qualifying
Men’s Team Sprint, first spherical
Men’s Team Pursuit, first spherical
Men’s Team Sprint, finals
Wednesday 7 August, 12:45pm
Men’s Sprint, qualifying
Women’s Keirin, first spherical
Women’s Team Pursuit, first spherical
Men’s Sprint, 1/32 finals and repechages, 1/16 finals, and 1/8 finals and repechanges
Women’s Keirin, first spherical and repechages
Men’s Team Pursuit, finals
Women’s Team Pursuit, finals
Thursday 8 August, 5:30pm
Men’s Omnium, Scratch Race 14
Men’s Sprint, quarter finals
Women’s Keirin, quarter finals, semi finals, and finals
Men’s Sprint, quarter finals
Men’s Omnium, Tempo Race 24
Men’s Omnium, Elimination Race 34
Men’s Omnium, Points Race 44
Friday 9 August, 2:30pm
Women’s Sprint, qualifying
Men’s Sprint, semi finals, and finals
Women’s Sprint, 1/32 finals and repechages, 1/16 finals and repechages
Women’s Madison, remaining
Women’s Sprint 1/16 Finals
Saturday, 10 August, 5:00pm
Women’s Sprint, 1/8 finals, and quarter finals
Men’s Keirin, first spherical and repechages
Men’s Keirin Repechages
Men’s Madison, remaining
Sunday, 11 August, 11:00am
Women’s Omnium, Scratch Race 1/4
Women’s Sprint, semi finals and finals
Men’s Keirin, quarter finals, semi finals and finals
Women’s Omnium, Tempo Race 2/4
Women’s Omnium. Elimination Race 3/4
Women’s Omnium. Points Race 4/4
BMX
Tuesday 30 July, BMX Freestyle Qualification, 12:25pm
Wednesday 31 July, BMX Freestyle Finals, 12:10pm
Thursday 1 August, BMX Racing Qualifiers, 7pm
Friday 2 August, BMX Racing Finals, 7pm
MTB
Sunday 28 July, Women’s Cross Country, 1pm
Monday 29 July, Men’s Cross Country, 1pm
Reigning champions: Rio 2016 Olympic biking winners
- Men’s highway race: Richard Carapaz (Ecuador)
- Women’s highway race: Anna Kiesenhofer (Austria)
- Men’s time trial: Primož Roglič (Slovenia)
- Women’s time trial: Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands)
- Men’s workforce dash: Netherlands
- Women’s workforce dash: China
- Men’s workforce pursuit: Italy
- Women’s workforce pursuit: Germany
- Men’s dash: Harrie Lavreysen (Netherlands)
- Women’s dash: Kelsey Mitchell (Canada)
- Men’s keirin: Jason Kenny (Great Britain)
- Women’s keirin: Shanne Braspennincx (Netherlands)
- Men’s omnium: Matt Walls (Great Britain)
- Women’s omnium: Jennifer Valente (United States)
- Men’s Madison: Denmark
- Women’s Madison: Great Britain
- Men’s BMX race: Niek Kimmann (Netherlands
- Women’s BMX race: Beth Shriever (Great Britain)
- Men’s BMX freestyle: Logan Martin (Australia)
- Women’s BMX freestyle: Charlotte Worthington (Great Britain)
- Men’s mountain bike: Tom Pidcock (Great Britain)
- Women’s mountain bike: Jolanda Neff (Switzerland)