Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's individual road race explained

Event:	Women's individual road race
Games:	2024 Summer
Venues:	Pont d'Iéna
Date:	4 August 2024
Gold:	Kristen Faulkner
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Marianne Vos
Silvernoc:	NED
Bronze:	Lotte Kopecky
Bronzenoc:	BEL
Prev:	2020
Next:	2028

The women's individual road race event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 4 August 2024 on a course starting at 14:00 at Pont d'Iéna in Paris.^[1]

Kristen Faulkner, despite being a replacement in the 2024 Olympic team, became the first American to win a road racing gold in 40 years since Connie Carpenter at the road race in 1984.^[2]

Background

This was the 11th appearance of the event, held every Summer Olympics since 1984.

Qualification

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

Competition format and course

The road race was a mass-start, one-day road race event over and of vertical gain.^[3] The race took in the Trocadero, Versailles and Auffargis, and then back to Paris, with two loops of the city and three climbs of Montmartre.^[4]

Start list

See main article: List of cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Results

Rank		Cyclist	Time
	33	Kristen Faulkner	3:59:23
	9	Marianne Vos	4:00:21	+58
	3	Lotte Kopecky	4:00:21	+58
4	73	Blanka Vas	4:00:21	+58
5	29	Pfeiffer Georgi	4:00:44	+1:21
6	35	Mavi García	4:00:46	+1:23
7	26	Noemi Rüegg	4:01:27	+2:04
8	16	Katarzyna Niewiadoma	4:02:07	+2:44
9	13	Elisa Longo Borghini	4:02:28	+3:05
10	15	Marta Lach	4:02:50	+3:27
11	10	Lorena Wiebes	4:02:54	+3:31
12	28	Lizzie Deignan	4:02.57	+3:34
13	30	Anna Henderson	4:02:57	+3:34
14	71	Caroline Andersson	4:02:57	+3:34
15	32	Chloé Dygert	4:03:03	+3:40
16	37	Liane Lippert	4:03:27	+4:04
17	53	Christine Majerus	4:04:23	+5:00
18	24	Elise Chabbey	4:04:23	+5:00
19	45	Alison Jackson	4:04:23	+5:00
20	78	Rasa Leleivytė	4:04:23	+5:00
21	51	Ingvild Gåskjenn	4:04:23	+5:00
22	22	Lauretta Hanson	4:04:23	+5:00
23	21	Grace Brown	4:04:23	+5:00
24	4	Justine Ghekiere	4:04:23	+5:00
25	12	Elena Cecchini	4:04:23	+5:00
26	77	Eri Yonamine	4:04:23	+5:00
27	18	Victoire Berteau	4:04:23	+5:00
28	2	Christina Schweinberger	4:04:23	+5:00
29	41	Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig	4:04:23	+5:00
30	50	Marte Berg Edseth	4:04:23	+5:00
31	43	Niamh Fisher-Black	4:04:23	+5:00
32	38	Antonia Niedermaier	4:04:23	+5:00
33	48	Ashleigh Moolman Pasio	4:04:23	+5:00
34	8	Demi Vollering	4:04:23	+5:00
35	63	Megan Armitage	4:06:58	+7:35
36	64	Julia Kopecký	4:07:00	+7:37
37	49	Anniina Ahtosalo	4:07.04	+7:41
38	19	Audrey Cordon-Ragot	4:07.04	+7:41
39	23	Ruby Roseman-Gannon	4:07:12	+7:49
40	36	Franziska Koch	4:07:16	+7:53
41	81	Daniela Campos	4:07:16	+7:53
42	59	Eugenia Bujak	4:07:16	+7:53
43	6	Margot Vanpachtenbeke	4:07:16	+7:53
44	44	Olivia Baril	4:07:16	+7:53
45	17	Agnieszka Skalniak-Sójka	4:07:16	+7:53
46	20	Juliette Labous	4:07:16	+7:53
47	61	Tamara Dronova	4:07:16	+7:53
48	46	Arlenis Sierra	4:07:16	+7:53
49	39	Emma Norsgaard	4:07:16	+7:53
50	52	Paula Patiño	4:07:16	+7:53
51	54	Yanina Kuskova	4:07:16	+7:53
52	1	Anna Kiesenhofer	4:07:16	+7:53
53	5	Julie Van de Velde	4:07:21	+7:58
54	11	Elisa Balsamo	4:07:39	+8:16
55	14	Silvia Persico	4:07:39	+8:16
56	42	Kim Cadzow	4:08:14	+8:51
57	25	Elena Hartmann	4:08:14	+8:51
58	7	Ellen van Dijk	4:08:14	+8:51
59	60	Urša Pintar	4:08:14	+8:51
60	57	Catalina Soto	4:09:49	+10:26
61	70	Hanna Tserakh	4:10:18	+10:55
62	66	Antri Christoforou	4:10:20	+10:57
63	34		4:10:20	+10:57
64	65	Lee Sze Wing	4:10:47	+11:24
65	27	Linda Zanetti	4:10:47	+11:24
66	75	Jelena Erić	4:10:47	+11:24
67	69	Yuliia Biriukova	4:10:47	+11:24
68	82	Vera Looser	4:10:47	+11:24
69	83	Anastasia Carbonari	4:10:47	+11:24
70	55	Olga Zabelinskaya	4:10:47	+11:24
71	79	Nora Jenčušová	4:10:47	+11:24
72	62	Alena Ivanchenko	4:10:47	+11:24
73	80	Nguyễn Thị Thật	4:10:47	+11:24
74	68	Ana Vitória Magalhães	4:10:47	+11:24
75	90	Fariba Hashimi	4:10:47	+11:24
76	40	Rebecca Koerner	4:12:22	+12:59
77	85	Rotem Gafinovitz	4:13:42	+14:19
78	67	Phetdarin Somrat	4:13:42	+14:19
	47	Tiffany Keep
	56	Kimberley Le Court
	58
	72	Song Min-ji
	74	Nesrine Houili
	76	Marcela Prieto
	84	Safia Al-Sayegh
	86	Milagro Mena
	87	Nur Aisyah Mohamad Zubir
	88	Ese Ukpeseraye
	89	Awa Bamogo
	91	Yulduz Hashimi
	92	Diane Ingabire
	93	Eyeru Gebru

Notes and References

"Olympic Schedule - Cycling Road", Olympics.com. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
Web site: 2024-08-04 . Kristen Faulkner wins Paris Olympics women's road race for US after making the team as a replacement . 2024-08-05 . AP News . en.
Web site: Paris Olympics: Women's Road Race - Preview. Kirsten Frattini. 31 July 2024. cyclingnews.com.
Web site: Women's Olympic road race 2024: Route, contenders, and prediction. Rouleur.