Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Venue Olympic BMX Course
Izu Mountain Bike Course
Izu Velodrome
Musashinonomori Park
Fuji International Speedway
Dates 25 July – 9 August
No. of events 22
Competitors 528

The cycling competitions of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature 22 events.[1]

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 a 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 2020 competitions include four more events than 2016. BMX Freestyle events have been added for both men and women. In addition, the Madison events (for both men and women) that had been dropped after 2008 in favor of Omnium events returned to the programme.

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. 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.[2]

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

Venue[3] Cluster Sport Date[4] Medal events Capacity
Fuji International SpeedwayOutside TokyoRoad cycling
(finish road races and time trial)		25 - 29 July4
Izu Mountain Bike Course Outside TokyoMountain biking27 - 28 July2
Olympic BMX Course Tokyo Bay ZoneBMX (freestyle and racing)30 July - 2 August45,000[5]
Musashinonomori ParkHeritage ZoneRoad cycling
(start road races)		25 - 26 July0
Izu VelodromeOutside TokyoTrack cycling3 - 9 August124,300[6]

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 race were revealed in August 2018.[7][8] 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 with a total elevation of 4865.[9] The women's race will cover 137 km with a total elevation of 2692 metres.[10]

The first part are for the men's and women's the same. The races passes through the mostly flat outskirts of Tokyo's metropolitan. After 80 km there will be a long climb on Doushi Road with a total elevation of 1000 km. The course will be over windy roads and passing several small villages and dense forest. After reaching Lake Yamanakako in Yamanashi and crossing the Kagosaka Pass there is a fast 15 km descent. From here the courses are different for men's and women's.

After the descent the men's will go to low slopes of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest mountain. It will be a 14.3km climb with on average 6.0% inclanation. After this climb the riders will head to the Fuji Speedway section. They crosses the finish line twice and go in the last part of the race to the Mikuni Pass peak with about 30 km to go. This climb is 6.8 km at a hight of 1159 metres with an averave inclanation of 10.2% including sections reaching 20%. Again the race will go along the Lake Yamanaka; crossing the Kagosaka Pass and descending to the finsish at the Fuji Speedway.

For the women's race the two described toughest sections with climbs are not included. The women's will head after the 15 km descent directly to the Fuji Speedway's circuit, were they will ride 1.5 lap. 17 km before the finish, the women's will cross the finish line with 1 lap to go.[11]

Competition schedule

Template:2020 Olympic Cycling Schedule

Medalists

Road cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's road race
Women's road race
Men's time trial
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 cross-country
Women's cross-country

BMX

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

References

  1. ↑ "Tokyo 2020 Cycling". Retrieved 12 July 2018.
  2. ↑ = (9 December 2015). "IOC approves switch of cycling venues for Tokyo Olympics". usatoday.com. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
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  5. ↑ = (9 December 2015). "IOC approves switch of cycling venues for Tokyo Olympics". usatoday.com. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  6. ↑ = (9 December 2015). "IOC approves switch of cycling venues for Tokyo Olympics". usatoday.com. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
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  10. ↑ []http://www.uci.ch/mm/Document/News/News/18/69/12/Tokyo2020-WERRFINALPDFWEB_Neutral.pdf]
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