Cycling at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

For the Youth Olympics instead of competitors competing separately they compete as a team. In the boys' and girls' combined team event two athletes compete together. The event contains five stages; three road events (road race, criterium and time trial) and two cross-country events (cross-country eliminator and short track). One member of each team competes in each stage with the exception of the road race where both cyclists compete.

Two mixed BMX events (racing and freestyle park) will take place with each team containing one boy and one girl. The freestyle park event will contain a team of athletes from different nations.^[1]

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 1 team of 2 athletes for the combined events and the BMX racing event. For the BMX freestyle park event each NOC can enter a maximum of 1 boy and 1 girl. As hosts, Argentina was given a team to compete in the combined events and the BMX racing event, however, they declined to use the BMX quota. A further six teams, two in each of the combined events and the BMX racing event was to be decided by the Tripartite Commission, however only two quotas was given to the boys' combined event and one quota was given the girls' combined event, the rest were reallocated to the nation rankings. The remaining quotas for the combined events are to be decided by the YOG Junior Nations Rankings, calculated by using the best ranking from the 2017 Junior Road Nations’ Cup Ranking or the 2017 Junior Cross-Country Mountain Bike World Championships.

The remaining quotas for the Mixed BMX Racing event will be decided by the YOG BMX Junior Nations Rankings, calculated by using the best ranking from the UCI Men’s or Women’s Junior BMX Nations Rankings. The quotas for the Mixed BMX Freestyle Park event will be decided by the ranking of individuals after the 2017 Urban Cycling World Championships.^[1]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2001.^[1]

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified Boys	Qualified Girls
Host Nation	-	-	1	Argentina	Argentina
YOG Junior Nation Rankings[2][3][4][5][6]	-	1 November	17	Switzerland  Kazakhstan  Italy  Denmark  Israel  Spain  New Zealand  Czech Republic  Great Britain  Japan*  Poland  Hungary  Mexico  Slovenia  Chile  Slovakia  Russia  Colombia**	Great Britain  Italy  Austria  Denmark  Switzerland  Hungary  Russia  New Zealand  China  Mexico  Japan*  Luxembourg  Colombia  Ethiopia  Poland  Egypt  Brazil*  Kazakhstan  Ukraine**
Tripartite Invitation	-	-	2/1	Luxembourg  Eritrea	Eritrea
TOTAL				20	19

* did not participate
** later added to the participation list

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified Team
Host Nation	-	-	1 0	Argentina
YOG BMX Junior Nation Rankings[2][7][8]	-	1 November	13 16	Great Britain  Switzerland  Colombia  Latvia  Japan  Germany  Russia  New Zealand  Brazil  Ecuador  Chile  Thailand  Mexico  Bolivia  Czech Republic  Slovakia
Tripartite Invitation	-	-	2 0	Not used
TOTAL				16

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified Boys	Qualified Girls
Urban Cycling World Championship[2]	Chengdu	8–12 November 2017	8	Argentina  Brazil  Colombia  Czech Republic  Germany  Japan  Latvia  Russia	Argentina  Brazil  Colombia  Czech Republic  Germany  Japan  Russia  Venezuela
TOTAL				8	8

• No African country took part in the event, and the quotas were distributed to the next highest ranked nation.