road bicycle racing
Sign in to saveAlso known as bicycle road cycling, bicycle road race, road bicycle race, road cycling race, road cycle racing, road bike racing, cycle race
bicycle racing sport
Key facts
- Highest governing body
- UCI
- Contact
- No, although bodies do touch
- Team members
- Individuals and teams
- Mixed sex
- Yes, separate competitions
- Type
- Cycle sport
- Equipment
- Road bicycle
- Venue
- Paved roads
- Country or region
- Worldwide
- Olympic
- Yes, men's since the 1896 Olympics and women's since the 1984 Olympics
- World championships
- Yes
- Paralympic
- Yes, men's and women's since the 1984 Paralympics
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- sports discipline
- Sport
- cycle sport
- Image
- Eersel Wielrenners resize.jpg
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- Commons category
- Road bicycle racing
- topic's main category
- Category:Road bicycle racing
- authority
- Union Cycliste Internationale
- uses
- racing bicycle
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Encyclopedic overview
Pictogram for Cycling at the Summer Olympics
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common competition formats are mass start events, where riders start simultaneously and race to a set finish point; and time trials, where individual riders or teams race a course alone against the clock. Stage races or "tours" take multiple days, and consist of several mass-start or time-trial stages ridden consecutively.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “road bicycle racing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.