Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics

The cycling competitions of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature 22 events.[1] The 2020 Olympics was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

Cycling
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
VenueOlympic BMX Course
Izu Mountain Bike Course
Izu Velodrome
Musashinonomori Park
Fuji International Speedway
Dates24 July – 8 August 2021
No. of events22
Competitors600 from 50 nations
Cycling at the
2020 Summer Olympics
List of cyclists
Qualification
Road cycling
Road racemenwomen
Time trialmenwomen
Track cycling
Sprintmenwomen
Team sprintmenwomen
Keirinmenwomen
Team pursuitmenwomen
Madisonmenwomen
Omniummenwomen
Mountain biking
Cross-countrymenwomen
BMX
BMX racingmenwomen
BMX freestylemenwomen

Cycling competitions had been contested in every Summer Olympics programme since the first modern Olympiad in 1896 alongside athletics, artistic gymnastics, fencing and swimming.

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. BMX freestyle was added in the program for the first time and there will also be a return of madison's events on the track, that had been removed from the Olympic program in 2008.

Venues

Track cycling was planned for a temporary venue in Ariake. To save $100 million in construction costs, it was announced after months of negotiations that the venue for track cycling became the existing velodrome in Izu.[3] The UCI resisted the move trackcycling 120 km outside Tokyo to Izu. The UCI feared it would detract from Olympic experience for both athletes and fans. Eventually the international cycling union agreed to change. The Japanese Cycling Federation and local authorities are committed to establish at Izu a multi-sport cycling center to create local cycling programs and develop the cycling sport.[4]

For road cycling the start and finish were originally planned at the Imperial Palace Garden. Later it was announced that the finishes would be at the Fuji International Speedway with the starts of the road races at the Musashinonomori Park.

Venue[5] Cluster Sport Date[6] Medal events Capacity
Fuji International SpeedwayOutside TokyoRoad cycling
(finish road races and time trial)		24 – 28 July4
Izu MTB CourseOutside TokyoMountain biking26 – 27 July2
Ariake Urban Sports ParkTokyo Bay ZoneBMX (freestyle and racing)29 July – 1 August45,000[4]
Musashinonomori ParkHeritage ZoneRoad cycling
(start road races)		24 – 25 July0
Izu VelodromeOutside TokyoTrack cycling2 – 8 August124,300[4]

Qualification
Main article: Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japan, as the host country, receives 1 guaranteed quota place per gender in the BMX Racing, BMX Freestyle, and mountain bike events and 2 quota places per gender in the road race events (and no guaranteed places in road time trial or any track events). Most qualification is done through UCI ranking lists, with some spots allocated through world championship events or continental qualification events.

Participation

Participating nations

Courses

Road races

The courses for the men's and women's road races were revealed in August 2018. The races will start in Musashinonomori Park in Chofu, western Tokyo with the finish at the Fuji Speedway circuit in the Shizuoka prefecture. The men's road race will be 234 kilometres long with a total elevation of 4865 m. The women's race will cover 137 km with a total elevation of 2692 metres.[7]

The first part of the men's and women's races is identical. The course will first pass through the mostly flat outskirts of Tokyo's metropolitan area. After 80 km there will be a long climb on Doushi Road with a total elevation of 1000 m. After reaching Lake Yamanakako in Yamanashi and crossing the Kagosaka Pass there will be a fast 15 km descent. From here the courses are different for men and women.

After the descent, the men's race will head towards the lower slopes of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, where they will go up a 14.3 km long climb with a 6.0% average incline. The riders will then head to the Fuji Speedway section, where they will cross the finish line twice before entering the last part of the race, which includes the Mikuni Pass peak at about 30 km to go. This climb is 6.8 km at a height of 1159 metres with an average incline of 10.2% including sections reaching 20%. After the climb, the race will return to Lake Yamanakako and the Kagosaka Pass before finishing on the Fuji Speedway circuit.

The women's race will not include the two tough climbs at Mount Fuji and Mikuni Pass. Instead, the race will remain on the Fuji Speedway circuit, where the women will ride 1.5 laps before the final crossing of the finish line.

Competition schedule
HHeats QFQuarter-Finals SFSemi-Finals FFinals
BMX, mountain biking and road cycling[8][9][10][11][12]
Event↓/Date →July 24July 25July 26July 27July 28July 29July 30Jul 31Aug 1
BMX Freestyle
Men's freestyleHF
Women's freestyleHF
BMX Racing
Men's racingQFSFF
Women's racingQFSFF
Mountain biking
Men's cross-countryF
Women's cross-countryF
Road cycling
Men's road raceF
Men's time trialF
Women's road raceF
Women's time trialF
Track cycling[8][13]
Date →Aug 2Aug 3Aug 4Aug 5Aug 6Aug 7Aug 8
Men's KeirinHQFSFF
Men's MadisonF
Men's OmniumSRTRERPR
Men's team pursuitHSFF
Men's sprintHQFSFF
Men's team sprintHSFF
Women's KeirinHQFSFF
Women's MadisonF
Women's OmniumSRTRERPR
Women's team pursuitHSFF
Women's sprintHQFSFF
Women's team sprintHSFF

Medalists

Road cycling
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's road race
Men's time trial
Women's road race
Women's time trial

Track cycling

Men's
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Keirin
Madison
Omnium
Team pursuit
Sprint
Team sprint

Women's
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Keirin
Madison
Omnium
Team pursuit
Sprint
Team sprint

Mountain biking
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's
Women's

BMX
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's race
Men's freestyle
Women's race
Women's freestyle

See also

References
  1. "Tokyo 2020 Cycling". Tokyo2020.org. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
  2. "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". olympic.org (press release). International Olympic Committee. 24 March 2020. Archived from the original on 19 April 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  3. Holthus, Barbara; Gagné, Isaac; Manzenreiter, Wolfram; Waldenberger, Franz (23 April 2020). Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics Open Access. Routledge. p. 61. doi:10.4324/9781003033905. ISBN 978-1-003-03390-5.
  4. "IOC approves switch of cycling venues for Tokyo Olympics". Usatoday.com. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  5. "Olympic Venues｜The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games". The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  6. "Olympic Competition Schedule｜The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games". The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  7. "Tokyo 2020 unveil cycling road races courses for Olympic Games". Insidethegames.biz. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  8. "Schedule - Cycling Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Olympian Database. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  9. "Cycling (BMX Freestyle) Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  10. "Cycling (BMX Racing) Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  11. "Cycling (Mountain Bike) Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  12. "Cycling (Road) Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  13. "Cycling (Track) Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
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