Cycling Track quickly brought fans to its venue of the Laoshan Velodrome. Darren Kenny of Great Britain set a new World and Paralympic record in the Men’s Individual Pursuit (CP3). Britain’s Simon Richardson and the pair Aileen McGlynn and Ellen Hunter also set World records in the Men’s 1km Time Trial (LC3-4) and the Women’s 1km Time Trial (B&VI) respectively.

Cycling Road took place at the Triathlon Venue. Paralympian Ambassador Ernst van Dyk from South Africa took the gold in the Men’s Road Race (Handcycling, C). Heinz Frei from Switzerland, a World record holder in the Marathon competition, took the gold in the Men’s Road Race (Handcycling, B), and the team of Iryna Fiadotava and Alena Drazdova from Belarus took the gold in the Women’s Road Race (B&VI).

Cycling was governed by the International Cycling Union (UCI) for the first time at the Beijing Paralympics after the transfer of governance in 2007.