The men's individual road race event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 3 August 2024 on a course that started at Pont d'Iéna in Paris.

The race went through Trocadero, Left Bank, Versailles, Bougival, Feucherolles, Beynes, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Auffargisis, and then back to Paris, with two loops of the city and three climbs of Montmartre.

[2] Reigning Olympic champion Richard Carapaz was not selected for the one Ecuadorian place in the race, as his climbing abilities which had helped him win over Mount Fuji in 2021 were not seen as suitable for a course that clearly favoured the classics riders, with multiple short, sharp ascents culminating in multiple ascents at Montmartre creating the template for a broken up race and a classic riders day.

With the withdrawal of 2024 Tour de France winner and the 2021 bronze medalist Tadej Pogačar over fatigue and federation issues, the favourites going into the race included time-trial gold medalist Remco Evenepoel of Belgium and his compatriots Wout van Aert and Jasper Stuyven, reigning world champion Mathieu van der Poel of the Netherlands, France's former double World champion Julian Alaphilippe, the Dane Mattias Skjelmose, Great Britain's mountain-bike double gold medalist Tom Pidcock and Irish classics rider Ben Healy.

[2] Madouas hung on for silver; his French colleague Christophe Laporte stayed in the peloton and won bronze from a small bunch sprint, with several pre-race favourites only a few seconds behind.