Track cycling
Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles.
A track cycling race at the third round of 2014–15 UCI Track Cycling World Cup in the Velódromo Alcides Nieto Patiño in Cali, Colombia | |
| Highest governing body | UCI |
|---|---|
| Characteristics | |
| Contact | No, although occasionally unavoidable |
| Team members | Individuals and team |
| Mixed-sex | No |
| Type | Cycle sport |
| Equipment | Track bicycle |
| Venue | Velodrome |
| Presence | |
| Country or region | Worldwide |
| Olympic | Yes, men's since 1896 and women's since 1984 (with restrictions until 2012) |
| Paralympic | Yes, men's and women's since 1996 |
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