Cycling at the 2011 Pan American Games – Qualification

  • There is maximum allocation of 220 athletes distributed through qualification events in 2010 and 2011.[1]
  • Quota Allocation per gender can vary depending on number of entries.[1]
Event Men Women Total
Track 49 34 83
Road 20 15 35
Mountain Biking 24 26 14 11 38 37
BMX 22 20 14 16 36
Host Country 14 10 24
Caribbean Championships 4 0 4
Total athletes 133 87 220

Qualification timeline

Event[1] Date Location
2010 Caribbean Cycling Championships October 24–26, 2010 Guadeloupe Basse-Terre
2011 Pan American Mountain Biking Championships April 1–3, 2011 Colombia Chía
2011 Elite Pan American Track Cycling Championships May 1–8, 2011 Colombia Medellin
2011 Elite Pan American Road Cycling Championships May 1–8, 2011 Colombia Medellin
  • BMX qualification was with the end of the 2010 BMX rankings, with the athletes unknown as of January 2011.[1]

Track cycling

Men

Team Sprint

Event Vacancies Qualified
Host 1  Mexico
Pan American Championship 5  Argentina
 Brazil
 Chile
 Canada
 Venezuela
TOTAL 6

Individual Sprint

Event Vacancies Qualified
Pan American Championship 6  El Salvador
 Brazil
 Chile
 Costa Rica
 Trinidad and Tobago
 Ecuador
TOTAL 6

Road cycling

Each NOC can enter a maximum of 4 male and 3 female.[2]

Men

Event Vacancies Qualified
Pan American Championship 15  Brazil
 Chile
 Colombia
 Colombia
 Mexico
 Brazil
 Colombia
 Cuba
 Ecuador
 Mexico
 Guatemala
 Brazil
 Dominican Republic
 Guatemala
 Costa Rica
Pan American Championship Individual time trial 5  Argentina
 Colombia
 Venezuela
 Panama
 Canada
Caribbean Cycling championship 3  Trinidad and Tobago
 Dominican Republic
 Antigua and Barbuda
 Netherlands Antilles
TOTAL 24
  • The Caribbean championship was to qualify 4 male athletes in any discipline, but all four were qualified in the road competition. This however does not take away from the quota for the road discipline for males.[3]

Women

Event Vacancies Qualified
Pan American Championship 10  Canada
 El Salvador
 United States
 Venezuela
 Brazil
 Venezuela
 Cuba
 Chile
 Mexico
 Chile
Pan American Championship Individual time trial 5  Canada
 United States
 United States
 Argentina
 Canada
TOTAL 15

Mountain biking

Each NOC may enter up to 2 athletes each.[2]

Men

Event Athletes per NOC Qualified
Pan American Championship 2  Argentina
 Brazil
 Canada
 Chile
 Colombia
 Costa Rica
 Cuba
 Ecuador
 Mexico
 Puerto Rico
 United States
 Venezuela
Pan American Championship 1  El Salvador
 Aruba
TOTAL 26

Women

Event Athletes per NOC Qualified
Pan American Championship 1  Argentina
 Brazil
 Canada
 Chile
 Colombia
 Costa Rica
 Ecuador
 Mexico
 Puerto Rico
 United States
 Venezuela
TOTAL 11

BMX

Men

Event Athletes per NOC Qualified
BMX Ranking 2  Argentina
 Brazil
 Bolivia
 Canada
 Chile
 Colombia
 Ecuador
 Mexico
 United States
 Venezuela
TOTAL 20

Women

Event Athletes per NOC Qualified
BMX Ranking 2  Argentina
 Brazil
 Canada
 Colombia
 Mexico
 United States
 Venezuela
BMX Ranking 1  Chile
 Ecuador
TOTAL 16

References