From here the courses are different for men and women.Īfter the descent, the men's race heads towards the lower slopes of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, with a 14.3 km long climb with a 6.0% average incline. After reaching Lake Yamanakako in Yamanashi and crossing the Kagosaka Pass there is a fast 15 km descent. After 80 km there is a long climb on Doushi Road with a total elevation of 1000 m. The course first passes through the mostly flat outskirts of Tokyo's metropolitan area. The first part of the men's and women's races is identical. The women's race was 137 km long with a total elevation of 2692 metres. The men's road race was 234 kilometres long with a total elevation of 4865 m. The races started in Musashinonomori Park in Chofu, western Tokyo with the finish at the Fuji Speedway circuit in the Shizuoka prefecture. The courses for the men's and women's road races were revealed in August 2018. 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. įor road cycling the start and finish were originally planned at the Imperial Palace Garden. The Japanese Cycling Federation and local authorities committed to establishing at Izu a multi-sport cycling center, to create local cycling programs, and to develop the cycling sport. The UCI feared it would detract from the Olympic experience for both athletes and fans. The International Cycling Union (UCI) resisted moving track cycling 120 km outside Tokyo to Izu. To save $100 million in construction costs, it was announced after months of negotiations that the venue for track cycling would be the existing velodrome in Izu.
Track cycling was planned for a temporary venue in Ariake. They also became their nation's most successful male and female Olympians in history. Between them the two top nations won half of all the 22 gold medals on offer in cycling no other nation won more than one, and aside from 12 medals won by each of the 'Big 2', only the Swiss managed more than three medals in total, thanks to their dominance of the mountain bike podium (winning 4 medals from 6).ĭuring the Games, Jason Kenny and Laura Kenny respectively took the records for the most sucessful male and female Olympic cyclists in history, Jason with a seventh gold in men's kierin, and Laura with a fifth in women's madison. Nevertheless with three golds, three silvers and a bronze inside the velodrome, and a hugely successful mountain bike and BMX campaign outside it (three golds, a silver and a bronze from the six events) for the fourth Olympics in a row, Great Britain topped the medal table in cycling with twelve medals, six gold, closely followed by the Netherlands with twelve medals but five golds. They also failed to win a road medal for the first time since 2004.
Great Britain's stranglehold on the velodrome events slackened for the first time since 2008, with their three golds matched by the Netherlands and six other golds shared among six nations. As Izu was not covered by the state of emergency imposed by the Japanese government, cycling was one of the very few sports at these games that allowed a limited number of local spectators to attend. The award of the extra events was widely seen as a reward for the agreement of the UCI that the track cycling and mountain bike events be taken out of Tokyo and held in Izu, Shizuoka, allowing for significant costs savings to the organising committee. BMX freestyle was added in the program for the first time and there will also be a return of Madison events on the track that had been removed from the Olympic program in 2008. The cycling program for this edition was expanded with 4 more events than those held in 2016. 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. Ĭycling competitions had been contested in every Summer Olympics programme since the first modern Olympiad in 1896 alongside athletics, artistic gymnastics, fencing and swimming. The 2020 Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The cycling competitions of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured 22 events in five disciplines.
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