Olympic Games Paris 2024
Men Park results:
1 Jose TORRES GIL 29 ARG GOLD
2 Kieran REILLY 23 GBR SILVER
3 Anthony JEANJEAN 26 FRA BRONZE
4 Marcus CHRISTOPHER 22 USA
5 Rimu NAKAMURA 22 JPN
6 Gustavo BATISTA DE OLIVEIRA 22 BRA
7 Justin DOWELL 24 USA
8 Ernests ZEBOLDS 25 LAT
9 Logan MARTIN 31 AUS
10 Jeffrey WHALEY 28 CAN
11 Marin RANTEŠ 29 CRO
12 Vincent LEYGONIE 27 RSA
Photos by Bart de Jong / @fatbmx
Cycling achieves full gender parity in terms of athlete numbers at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. By press release
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is delighted to announce that an equal number of female and male cyclists will be taking part at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. The development was confirmed earlier today, when the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) met to discuss and approve the event programme for the Games. Gender equality is one of the objectives of the UCI’s Agenda 2022, the Federation’s roadmap for the development of our sport. A total of 514 athletes will take part in the cycling events at Paris 2024, with an equal split between women and men. A first in the Olympic history of our sport, this parity has been achieved thanks to changes made to the athlete quotas for cycling’s disciplines. Having already been achieved in mountain bike, BMX Racing and BMX Freestyle Park on the Tokyo 2020 programme, gender parity is now a reality for road and track cycling as well.
It should be pointed out that this significant development for our sport comes at a time when the number of athletes taking part in the Games is being reduced across different sports, in line with the recommendations of the IOC’s Olympic Agenda 2020. Cycling will thus have 14 fewer places at Paris 2024, a reduction that affects road and mountain bike. This moderate decrease will be partly offset by the allocation of one extra place for track cycling and six in BMX Freestyle Park, with the number of athletes competing in both the men’s and women’s freestyle events increasing from nine to 12.
With its two long-standing disciplines of road and track cycling having been joined by mountain bike
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