Cycling at the 2011 Pan American Games – Qualification explained

See main article: Cycling at the 2011 Pan American Games.

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]

Qualification timeline

Event	Date	Location
2010 Caribbean Cycling Championships	October 24–26, 2010	Basse-Terre
2011 Pan American Mountain Biking Championships	April 1–3, 2011	Chía
2011 Elite Pan American Track Cycling Championships	May 1–8, 2011	Medellin
2011 Elite Pan American Road Cycling Championships	May 1–8, 2011	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
Pan American Championship	5
TOTAL	6

Individual Sprint

Road cycling

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

Men

Event	Vacancies	Qualified
Pan American Championship	15
Pan American Championship Individual time trial	5
Caribbean Cycling championship	3
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.^[2]

Women

Event	Vacancies	Qualified
Pan American Championship	10
Pan American Championship Individual time trial	5
TOTAL	15

Mountain biking

Each NOC may enter up to 2 athletes each.

Men

Event	Athletes per NOC	Qualified
Pan American Championship	2
Pan American Championship	1
TOTAL	26

Women

BMX

Women

Event	Athletes per NOC	Qualified
BMX Ranking	2
BMX Ranking	1
TOTAL	16

External links

Notes and References

https://web.archive.org/web/20101125191522/http://guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_cycling.pdf Cycling technical manual
http://antiguaspeaks.com/news/?p=1801 Caribbean Cycling Championships hailed a success