Remco Evenepoel of Belgium won the Olympic men’s road race in Paris in 2024, 1 minute 11 seconds clear of France’s Valentin Madouas. The next one is on Sunday, July 23, 2028, from Venice Beach to Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, and no sportsbook price for it is on this page yet.
Evenepoel also won the Paris time trial, so he left with both road golds. This page keeps the Paris result as the record and will carry the 2028 board once one is posted. For how Olympic markets work, see our Olympics betting guide and the Summer Olympics betting guide.
The 2028 race
The LA28 competition schedule, version 4.0 of July 29, 2026, lists the men’s road race on Sunday, July 23, 2028, from 9:00 to 16:15 Pacific time. It starts on the Venice Beach Boardwalk and finishes at Griffith Observatory. The women’s road race, between the same start and finish, is the day before, on Saturday, July 22.
The time trials come first, on Wednesday, July 19, from the LA Zoo to Griffith Observatory. LA28 says the schedule can change until the Games end, so check the date again before you bet on it.
How Paris was won
Evenepoel finished in 6 hours 19 minutes 34 seconds. Madouas crossed 71 seconds later for silver, and Christophe Laporte took bronze five seconds after Madouas. Six more riders were given the same time as Laporte.
| Finish | Rider | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Gold | Remco Evenepoel (BEL) | 6:19:34 |
| Silver | Valentin Madouas (FRA) | 6:20:45 |
| Bronze | Christophe Laporte (FRA) | 6:20:50 |
| 4 | Attila Valter (HUN) | 6:20:50 |
| 5 | Toms Skujins (LAT) | 6:20:50 |
| 6 | Marco Haller (AUT) | 6:20:50 |
| 7 | Stefan Kueng (SUI) | 6:20:50 |
| 8 | Jan Tratnik (SLO) | 6:20:50 |
| 9 | Matteo Jorgenson (USA) | 6:20:50 |
| 10 | Ben Healy (IRL) | 6:20:54 |
Seventy-seven riders finished. In the Paris time trial, Evenepoel beat Filippo Ganna of Italy by 14.92 seconds, with Wout van Aert of Belgium third.
The last two Olympic champions
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paris 2024 | Remco Evenepoel (BEL) | Valentin Madouas (FRA) | Christophe Laporte (FRA) |
| Tokyo 2020 | Richard Carapaz (ECU) | Wout van Aert (BEL) | Tadej Pogacar (SLO) |
Two races, six medalists, no repeat. Van Aert, second in Tokyo, finished 37th in Paris.
What the old board got wrong
Before Paris, this page listed Mathieu van der Poel as the favorite at +250, with Tadej Pogacar at +400 and Mads Pedersen and van Aert at +600 each. Evenepoel was fifth on that board at +1100, and Madouas was not among the 18 riders it priced. The page backed Pogacar at +400, and his name is not on the official results list, which also lists the riders who did not finish.
The shortest prices came home 12th (van der Poel), 20th (Pedersen) and 37th (van Aert). The winner was priced at an implied chance of 8.3%. One race proves nothing about the next one. It does show that a one-day race of more than six hours can leave the top of a board with nothing.
How to read a price when the board opens
Convert every price to the chance it implies before you compare it with your own view: +250 is 28.6%, +1100 is 8.3%. On a field this big, add up the whole board and the total runs past 100%; the excess is what the book keeps. Medal markets (a top-three finish) pay less but settle on more outcomes, which matters in a race where seven riders, third to ninth, were given the same time in Paris. Compare prices across books with our sportsbook reviews.
For the women’s race, see our Olympic women’s road race odds. For road racing between Games, see our Tour de France odds and UCI World Championships road race odds.