The Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games featured a reduced program, and track cycling was the only cycling discipline contested. However, road cycling and mountain biking were not on the program.

Glasgow 2026 Track Cycling

Track cycling at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games was held from 30 July to 2 August 2026 at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow. The program was expanded to 26 medal events across track cycling and para track cycling, with an enlarged para-cycling program and the women’s team sprint and time trial contested over the same distances as the men’s for the first time.

Results and Highlights

Australia was the dominant nation on the track, finishing with a record 28 track and para-track cycling medals (10 gold, 10 silver and 8 bronze). The country has surpassed its previous Commonwealth cycling best of 20 medals set at Glasgow 2014. Sprinter Leigh Hoffman became the first Australian cyclist to win four medals at a single Games (three of them gold), while Georgia Baker claimed her fifth career Commonwealth gold to equal the national record and carried the flag at the closing ceremony.

Wales finished second on the cycling medal table with six golds, led by Emma Finucane, who became the first rider ever to win Commonwealth gold in all four sprint events (sprint, keirin, 500m time trial and team sprint) at the same Games.

England won 15 medals (3 gold, 7 silver, and 5 bronze) while New Zealand also won 11 medals (3 gold, 3 silver, and 5 bronze) in the track cycling event. Isle of Man’s Matt Bostock won the island’s first Commonwealth cycling gold since Mark Cavendish in 2006. The leading nations on the cycling medal table are shown below:

Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
Australia 10 10 8 28
Wales 6 3 2 11
England 3 7 5 15
New Zealand 3 3 5 11

Trivia

  • In every Commonwealth Games since 1970 Australia has won the Men’s Cycling Sprint (and has won 12 out of the 15 times the event has been contested). Gary Neiwand won the race in three successive Games - 1986, 1990 & 1994.
  • In 1994 Shane Kelly, Darryn Hill and Tim O’Shannessey took all three medals in the cycling 1000m Time Trial, the first time Australia had ever done so.
  • At Glasgow 2026, Australia won a record 28 track and para-track cycling medals (10 gold), their best-ever Commonwealth cycling haul.
  • Wales’s Emma Finucane became the first rider to win Commonwealth gold in all four sprint events (sprint, keirin, 500m time trial and team sprint) at a single Games, at Glasgow 2026.
  • Isle of Man’s Matt Bostock won the island’s first Commonwealth cycling gold since Mark Cavendish in 2006.

Competition

  • Track cycling is conducted according to the rules of the International Cycling Union (UCI).
  • At Glasgow 2026 the program comprised 26 medal events across track cycling and para track cycling.
  • The events include the sprint, team sprint and keirin, the time trial, the individual and team pursuit, and the bunch races – the scratch race, points race and elimination race – along with a full program of para track cycling events.