Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's BMX racing explained

The women's BMX racing competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 1 and 2 August 2024 at the Vélodrome National de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

Background

This will be the 5th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics since BMX racing was added to the programme in 2008.

Qualification

See main article: Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to three qualified cyclists in the BMX race. Quota places are allocated to the NOC, which selects the cyclists. There were 24 quota places available, allocated as follows:^[1]

• UCI nation ranking (17 places): The top two NOCs each earn three places. NOCs ranked third to fifth each earn two places. NOCs ranked sixth through 10th each earn one place. Each continent was guaranteed one place.
• UCI elite individual ranking (three places): Outside Europe and Oceania, the highest-ranked NOC will secure a single quota place at the BMX continental championships for Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
• 2023 & 2024 World Championships (four place): The remaining four spots will be allocated to the top BMX riders competing at the 2023 UCI World Championships in Glasgow and at the 2024 Worlds in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
• Host place (one place): Host nation France was guaranteed one place.

Competition format

The competition was a three-round tournament, with quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final. In each round, the cyclists raced around a course with jumps and banked turns. The competition proceeded as follows:^{[2] [3]}

• Quarterfinals: three heats of eight cyclists each. Each heat had three runs, using a point-for-place system (one point for the winner of a run, two points for second, etc.), with the lowest points over the three runs winning. The best six cyclists in each heat (12 total) advanced to the semifinals, and the riders ranked 13–20 move to a last chance qualifier. In the last-chance qualifier, those eight riders race one time, and the top-four finishers advance to the semifinals, while the others cyclists were eliminated.
• Semifinals: two heats of eight cyclists each. Again there were three runs per heat, using the point-for-place system. The top four cyclists in each semifinal (eight total) advanced to the final; the others (eight cyclists) were eliminated. In both the quarterfinals and the semifinals, riders are reseeded for the next heat according to time. If two or more riders are equal in points at the end of three runs, the times will be used to break the tie.
• Final: one final of eight cyclists. There was only a single run.

Schedule

The event will take place over two consecutive days.^[4]

All times are Central European Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
1 August	20:20	Quarterfinals
	22:15	Last chance race
2 August	20:15	Semifinals
	21:50	Final

Results

Quarterfinals

Rank		Name	1st run		2nd run		3rd run		Total	Notes
			Heat	Time	Heat	Time	Heat	Time
1	77		1	34.549 (1)	1	34.376 (1)	1	34.515 (1)	3
2	911		3	34.688 (2)	2	34.421 (2)	2	34.590 (2)	3
3	11		2	35.459 (4)	3	35.033 (3)	3	35.483 (4)	3
4	44		3	35.752 (5)	2	35.508 (6)	1	35.311 (3)	7
5	61		1	35.872 (6)	1	35.042 (4)	3	35.520 (5)	7
6	110		1	35.076 (3)	3	35.728 (9)	3	35.792 (8)	8
7	31		2	36.099 (9)	3	36.482 (14)	2	36.360 (10)	8
8	2		3	36.018 (8)	2	35.423 (5)	2	36.393 (11)	8
9	21		1	35.952 (7)	1	35.564 (7)	1	35.589 (6)	10
10	22		1	36.137 (10)	3	35.760 (10)	3	35.649 (7)	11
11	94		3	36.588 (12)	1	35.654 (8)	2	37.099 (17)	15
12	13		3	36.354 (11)	2	1:00.895 (24)	1	36.050 (9)	16
13	14		3	38.211 (20)	2	37.266 (17)	2	36.593 (12	16
14	100		2	37.832 (19)	1	35.847 (11)	2	36.823 (14)	16
15	203		1	37.101 (14)	2	36.259 (12)	1	36.998 (15)	16
16	175		2	37.270 (16)	3	36.762 (15)	3	37.629 (20)	16
17	7		2	36.974 (13)	1	36.288 (13)	1	38.347 (22)	17
18	218		1	37.206 (15)	3	37.007 (16)	3	37.120 (18)	19
19	215		3	37.315 (17)	2	37.329 (18)	1	37.362 (19)	19
20	85		1	DNF (24)	1	37.953 (19)	1	36.720 (13)	20
21	230		2	38.371 (21)	3	39.874 (21)	3	37.017 (16)	20
22	23		2	37.732 (18)	1	46.155 (23)	2	37.763 (21)	20
23	101		3	39.325 (22)	3	38.889 (20)	2	39.492 (23)	23
24	209		2	43.011 (23)	2	42.401 (22)	3	43.210 (24)	23

Last chance race

Rank		Name	Time	Notes
1	100		36.015
2	85		37.068
3	14		37.373
4	175		37.375
5	215		37.819
6	7		38.362
7	203		2:14.343
8	218		2:15.767

Semifinals

Heat 1

Rank		Name	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	Total	Notes
1	77		34.162 (1)	34.847 (1)	34.189 (1)	3
2	61		35.016 (3)	35.178 (2)	35.543 (4)	9
3	110		36.165 (4)	35.128 (2)	35.610 (3)	9
4	11		34.892 (2)	36.624 (7)	34.833 (2)	11
5	13		37.202 (6)	36.244 (5)	36.413 (4)	15
6	100		36.802 (5)	35.649 (3)	40.796 (7)	15
7	94		DNF	36.334 (6)	36.517 (5)	19
8	175		37.493 (7)	37.861 (8)	37.454 (6)	21

Heat 2

Rank		Name	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	Total	Notes
1	911		34.297 (1)	34.339 (1)	34.326 (1)	3
2	2		36.235 (5)	35.206 (3)	34.848 (3)	11
3	44		35.599 (2)	35.953 (4)	36.349 (5)	11
4	21		35.814 (3)	35.917 (4)	52.185 (8)	15
5	31		36.181 (4)	37.333 (6)	36.910 (6)	16
6	14		37.232 (6)	36.199 (5)	37.795 (8)	19
7	22			37.459 (7)	35.057 (2)	19
8	85		37.600 (7)	38.154 (8)	37.207 (7)	22

Final

Rank		Name	Time	Notes
	77		34.231
	61		34.954
	2		35.060
4	110		35.745
5	44		35.833
6	11		36.171
7	13		36.273
8	911		36.496

Notes and References

1. Web site: 15 April 2024 . Qualification System – Games of the XXXIII Olympiad – Cycling BMX Racing . 1 August 2024 . Union Cycliste Internationale.
2. Web site: Cycling BMX Racing . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210629130630/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/sports/cycling-bmx-racing/ . 29 June 2021 . 29 June 2021 . Tokyo 2020.
3. News: Liam Nee . 26 March 2021 . Cycling 101: Competition format . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210628162647/https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/cycling-101-competition-format . 28 June 2021 . 28 June 2021 . NBC.
4. "Olympic Schedule – Cycling BMX racing", Olympics.com. Retrieved 21 July 2024.