Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's individual road race
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] This was the 11th appearance of the event, held every Summer Olympics since 1984.The road race was a mass-start, one-day road race event over 157.6 km (97.9 mi) and 1,700 m (5,600 ft) 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.