Cycling at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Cycling at the XVI Paralympic Games
Pictograms for road (left) and track (right) cycling
Venue	Izu Velodrome (track cycling) Fuji Speedway (road cycling)
Dates	25 August – 3 September 2021
Competitors	230 in 51 events from 44 nations
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Cycling at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Road cycling
Road race	men	women
Time trial	men	women
Team relay	mixed
Track cycling
Time trial	men	women
Individual pursuit	men	women
Team sprint	mixed
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Cycling at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Road time trial
	Men	Women
	B	B
	H1	H1–3
	H2
	H3
	H4	H4–5
	H5
	C1	C1–3
	C2
	C3
	C4	C4
	C5	C5
	T1–2	T1–2
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Cycling at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Road race
	Men	Women	Mixed team relay
	B	B
	H1–2	H1–4	H1–5
	H3
	H4
	H5	H5
	C1–3	C1–3
	C4–5	C4–5
	T1–2	T1–2
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Cycling at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Track cycling
Time trial
	Men	Women
	B	B
	C1–3	C1–3
	C4–5	C4–5
Individual pursuit
	Men	Women
	B	B
	C1	C1–3
	C2
	C3
	C4	C4
	C5	C5
Mixed team sprint
	C1-5
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Cycling at the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place in two separate locations. Track cycling took place at the Izu Velodrome from 25 to 28 August 2021 and road cycling took place on the Fuji Speedway from 31 August to 3 September 2021.^[1][2]

The 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They kept the 2020 name and were held from 24 August to 5 September 2021.^[3][4]

The competition was dominated by the squads from Great Britain and The Netherlands, winning 19 gold medals from 51 events. Great Britain, as in 2008, 2012 and 2016 dominated the track events, while the Netherlands were particularly strong in road racing.

Among the highlights were Great Britain's Sarah Storey becoming her country's most successful ever Paralympian, echoing the achievement of Jason Kenny in the 2020 Summer Olympics, winning her 15th, 16th and 17th gold medals in her eighth Paralympic Games.

Classification[]

Cyclists are given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. This method is known as a functional system and was introduced in 2012. Athletes are classified according to their functional ability across four broad categories (blind or partially sighted tandem, handcycle, tricycle and standard bicycle).^[5] The class number indicates the severity of impairment with "1" being most impaired. The classification system allows cyclists to compete against others with a similar level of function.

Riders with recovering or deteriorating conditions such as MS are eligible but must have been reclassified within six months of a World Championships or Paralympic Games to ensure their classification is correct. Specialised equipment including prostheses is only allowed where it has been specifically approved.

B – tandem bicycle

This class is for athletes who have visual impairments and therefore ride tandem bicycles with a sighted cyclist (known as a pilot). B1, B2, and B3 athletes compete together in this class.^[6]

H (1-5) – handcycle

This class is for athletes who are lower limb amputees, have paraplegia, or have involuntary or uncoordinated movement, and ride a handcycle using arms to turn pedals for propulsion. H1–4 cyclists compete in the reclined position, whereas H5 cyclists compete in a kneeling position.^[6]

T (1-2) – tricycle

This class of athletes compete using a tricycle instead of a bicycle, due to lack of balance, or a restriction in the ability to pedal due to muscle tension, or uncoordinated or involuntary movements.^[6] tension, uncoordinated movements or involuntary movements.

C (1-5) – standard bicycle

This class is for athletes with a limb deficiency, impaired muscle power or range of motion, and impairments affecting co-ordination, such as uncoordinated and involuntary movements.^[6]

Factored events[]

Some cycling events are factored. This can happen when cyclists from different classes compete against each other and means that the results take into account the severity of the impairments of each competitor. As a result, some riders within an event will have their times ‘factored’ while other riders will not, or will have their time factored in a different calculation. The gold medal goes to the athlete with the fastest time after all the required times have been calculated. It is therefore possible for an athlete to break a paralympic or world record in their event for their specific classification, but to finish behind a differently classified athlete in that event after factoring. In such a case, the record is still treated as an official World, or as the case may be, Paralympic Games record within their classification for that event.

Participating nations[]

As of June 2021^[7]

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	NPC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	10	11	3	24
2	Netherlands	9	3	4	16
3	France	5	4	7	16
4	Australia	4	4	5	13
5	Germany	3	4	5	12
6	China	3	4	3	10
7	United States	3	2	3	8
8	RPC	3	0	0	3
9	Ireland	2	1	1	4
	Slovakia	2	1	1	4
11	Spain	2	0	4	6
12	Japan*	2	0	0	2
13	Italy	1	5	1	7
14	Austria	1	2	3	6
15	South Africa	1	0	0	1
16	Belgium	0	2	3	5
17	Sweden	0	2	2	4
18	Canada	0	2	1	3
	Ukraine	0	2	1	3
20	Romania	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
22	Colombia	0	0	2	2
	Poland	0	0	2	2
Totals (23 NPCs)		51	51	51	153

Medalists[]

Road cycling[]

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Time trial details	B	France Alexandre Lloveras pilot: Corentin Ermenault	41:54.02	Netherlands Vincent ter Schure pilot: Timo Fransen	42:00.77	Spain Christian Venge Balboa pilot:	42:52.12
	H1	Pieter du Preez  South Africa	43:49.41	Fabrizio Cornegliani  Italy	45:44.56	Maxime Hordies  Belgium	47:01.23
	H2	Sergio Garrote Muñoz  Spain	31:23.53	Luca Mazzone  Italy	31:23.79	Florian Jouanny  France	32:41.62
	H3	Walter Ablinger  Austria	43:39.17	Vico Merklein  Germany	43:41.06	Luis Miguel García-Marquina  Spain	43:48.68
	H4	Jetze Plat  Netherlands	37:28.92	Thomas Fruehwirth  Austria	38:30.61	Alexander Gritsch  Austria	39:58.93
	H5	Mitch Valize  Netherlands	38:12.94	Loïc Vergnaud  France	39:15.16	Gary O'Reilly  Ireland	39:36.46
	C1	Mikhail Astashov  RPC	24:53.37	Aaron Keith  United States	24:55.40	Michael Teuber  Germany	24:58.67
	C2	Darren Hicks  Australia	34:39.78	Ewoud Vromant  Belgium	36:11.79	Alexandre Léauté  France	37:07.16
	C3	Benjamin Watson  Great Britain	35:00.82	Steffen Warias  Germany	35:57.41	Matthias Schindler  Germany	36:17.95
	C4	Patrik Kuril  Slovakia	45:47.10	Jozef Metelka  Slovakia	46:05.05	George Peasgood  Great Britain	46:08.93
	C5	Daniel Abraham Gebru  Netherlands	42:46.45	Yegor Dementyev  Ukraine	43:19.11	Alistair Donohoe  Australia	43:36.80
	T1–2	Chen Jianxin  China	25:00.32	Giorgio Farroni  Italy	27:49.78	Tim Celen  Belgium	30:44.21
Road race details	B	Netherlands Vincent ter Schure pilot: Timo Fransen	2:59:13	Netherlands Tristan Bangma pilot: Patrick Bos	3:05:01	France Alexandre Lloveras pilot: Corentin Ermenault	3:06:14
	H1–2	Florian Jouanny  France	1:49:36	Luca Mazzone  Italy	1:53:43	Sergio Garrote Munoz  Spain	1:54:36
	H3	Ruslan Kuznetsov  RPC	2:34:35	Heinz Frei  Switzerland	2:34:35	Walter Ablinger  Austria	2:35:06
	H4	Jetze Plat  Netherlands	2:15:13	Thomas Frühwirth  Austria	2:20:56	Alexander Gritsch  Austria	2:22:38
	H5	Mitch Valize  Netherlands	2:24:30	Loïc Vergnaud  France	2:24:30	Tim de Vries  Netherlands	2:24:40
	C1–3	Benjamin Watson  Great Britain	2:04:23	Finlay Graham  Great Britain	2:05:43	Alexandre Léauté  France	2:11:06
	C4–5	Kévin Le Cunff  France	2:14:49	Yegor Dementyev  Ukraine	2:15:11	Daniel Abraham  Netherlands	2:15:20
	T1–2	Chen Jianxin  China	51:07	Tim Celen  Belgium	52:15	Colombia	52:41

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Time trial details	B	Ireland Katie-George Dunlevy pilot: Eve McCrystal	47:32.07	Great Britain Lora Fachie pilot: Corrine Hall	48:32.06	Sweden Louise Jannering pilot:	49:36.06
	H1–3	Annika Zeyen  Germany	32:46.97	Francesca Porcellato  Italy	33:30.52	Renata Kałuża  Poland	33:50.32
	H4–5	Oksana Masters  United States	45:40.05	Sun Bianbian  China	47:26.53	Jennette Jansen  Netherlands	48:45.69
	C1–3	Keiko Sugiura  Japan	25:55.76	Anna Beck  Sweden	26:18.03	Paige Greco  Australia	26:37.54
	C4	Shawn Morelli  United States	39:33.79	Emily Petricola  Australia	39:43.09	Meg Lemon  Australia	41:14.42
	C5	Sarah Storey  Great Britain	36:08.90	Crystal Lane-Wright  Great Britain	37:40.89	Kerstin Brachtendorf  Germany	38:34.49
	T1–2	Jana Majunke  Germany	36:06.17	Carol Cooke  Australia	36:38.46	Angelika Dreock-Käser  Germany	36:53.88
Road race details	B	Ireland Katie-George Dunlevy pilot: Eve McCrystal	2:35:53	Great Britain Sophie Unwin pilot: Jenny Holl	2:36:00	Sweden Louise Jannering pilot:	2:36:00
	H1–4	Jennette Jansen  Netherlands	56:15	Annika Zeyen  Germany	56:21	Alicia Dana  United States	56:24
	H5	Oksana Masters  United States	2:23:39	Sun Bianbian  China	2:26:50	Katia Aere  Italy	2:28:11
	C1–3	Keiko Sugiura  Japan	1:12:55	Anna Beck  Sweden	1:13:11	Paige Greco  Australia	1:13:11
	C4–5	Sarah Storey  Great Britain	2:21:51	Crystal Lane-Wright  Great Britain	2:21:58	Marie Patouillet  France	2:23:49
	T1–2	Jana Majunke  Germany	1:00:58	Angelika Dreock-Käser  Germany	1:03:40	Jill Walsh  United States	1:05:48

Mixed team event

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Road race relay details	H1���5	Italy Paolo Cecchetto Luca Mazzone Diego Colombari	52:32	France Riadh Tarsim Florian Jouanny Loïc Vergnaud	53:03	United States Ryan Pinney Alicia Dana Alfredo de los Santos	53:11

Track cycling[]

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Time trial details	B	Great Britain Neil Fachie pilot: Matt Rotherham	58.038 WR	Great Britain James Ball pilot:	59.503	France Raphael Beaugillet pilot: François Pervis	1:00.472
	C1–3	Li Zhangyu  China	1:03.877 WR	Alexandre Léauté  France	1:05.031 WR	Jaco van Gass  Great Britain	1:05.569 WR
	C4–5	Alfonso Cabello  Spain	1:01.557 WR	Jody Cundy  Great Britain	1:01.847 PR	Jozef Metelka  Slovakia	1:04.786
Individual pursuit details	B	Netherlands Tristan Bangma pilot: Patrick Bos	—	Great Britain Steve Bate pilot: Adam Duggleby	— OVL	Poland Marcin Polak pilot:	4:07.850
	C1	Mikhail Astashov  RPC	—	Tristen Chernove  Canada	— OVL	Li Zhangyu  China	3:39.273
	C2	Alexandre Léauté  France	3:31.478 WR	Darren Hicks  Australia	3:35.064	Liang Guihua  China	3:34.781
	C3	Jaco van Gass  Great Britain	3:20.987	Finlay Graham  Great Britain	3:22.000	David Nicholas  Australia	3:25.877
	C4	Jozef Metelka  Slovakia	—	Carol-Eduard Novak  Romania	— OVL	Diego German Duenas  Colombia	4:35.607
	C5	Dorian Foulon  France	4:20.757	Alistair Donohoe  Australia	4:24.095	Yehor Dementyev  Ukraine	4:22.746

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Time trial details	B	Netherlands Larissa Klaassen pilot:	1:05.291 PR	Great Britain Aileen McGlynn pilot: Helen Scott	1:06.743	Belgium Griet Hoet pilot:	1:07.943
	C1–3	Amanda Reid  Australia	35.581 WR	Alyda Norbruis  Netherlands	36.057	Qian Wangwei  China	38.070 WR
	C4–5	Kadeena Cox  Great Britain	34.433 WR	Kate O'Brien  Canada	35.439	Caroline Groot  Netherlands	35.599 WR
Individual pursuit details	B	Great Britain Lora Fachie pilot: Corrine Hall	3:19.560	Ireland Katie-George Dunlevy pilot: Eve McCrystal	3:21.505	Great Britain Sophie Unwin pilot: Jenny Holl	3:23.446
	C1–3	Paige Greco  Australia	3:50.815 WR	Wang Xiaomei  China	3:54.975	Denise Schindler  Germany	3:55.120
	C4	Emily Petricola  Australia	—	Shawn Morelli  United States	— OVL	Keely Shaw  Canada	3:48.342
	C5	Sarah Storey  Great Britain	—	Crystal Lane-Wright  Great Britain	— OVL	Marie Patouillet  France	3:39.233

Mixed events

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Team sprint details	C1–5	Great Britain Kadeena Cox Jaco van Gass Jody Cundy	47.579 WR	China Li Zhangyu Wu Guoqing Lai Shanzhang	47.685	Spain Ricardo Ten Argilés Alfonso Cabello	49.209

See also[]

• Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics

References[]

External links[]

• Results book – Cycling Road
• Results book – Cycling Track