Cycling competitions at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru are scheduled to be held at five venues across Lima. The Circuito BMX will host the BMX racing competitions, the Pista de skateboarding will host the freestyle BMX events. Morro Solar will stage the mountain biking competitions, with the Circuito San Miguel staging the road competitions. Finally the velodrome will stage the track cycling competitions. The BMX competitions will start on August 7 and finish on the 11th, while mountain biking will be held on the 28th of July. Road cycling competitions will take place on the 7th and 10th of August. Track cycling competitions will be held between August 1st and 4th. In 2016, the International Olympic Committee made several changes to its sports program, which were subsequently implemented for these games. Included in this was the addition of the BMX freestyle event for the first time to the Pan American Games sports program. Also added was the addition of the Madison event in track cycling for men and women. 22 medal events are scheduled to be contested, four in BMX, two in mountain biking and four in road cycling and 12 in track cycling. Each discipline will be gender neutral in terms of events. A total of 250 cyclists will qualify to compete at the games.
Competition schedule
The following is the competition schedule for the Cycling competitions:
Trinidad and Tobago team originally won gold medals but was disqualified due to anti-doping rules violation by Njisane Phillip. Brazilian team originally won bronze medals but was disqualified due to anti-doping rules violation by Kacio Fonseca.
Qualification
A total of 250 cyclists will qualify to compete. 160 will qualify in road/track, 34 in mountain biking and 56 in BMX. Various events and rankings were used to determine the qualifiers. A nation could enter a maximum of 26 athletes, four in mountain biking, six in BMX and a combined 16 for road and track. Peru as host nation, was automatically awarded the maximum quota of 26 spots.
