Games that represent women's cycling races are scarce; they barely represent 1% of this collection. However, if we count games that include women cyclists along with men (that is, games in which women are not excluded), the percentage grows to almost 5%. Needless to say, that is still low.

However, it is interesting to notice that it was not always like this. The proportion of games that included women, either as figurines or being depicted riding their bikes on the game box or on the board, was almost 50% in XIXth century games.

These early games represented mostly recreative cycling.  As the sport grew in importance, the games tended to represent competitive cycling, which was a matter almost exclusively of men. Therefore, the number of women included in cycling games declined during the first part of the XXth century until there were virtually none in after-war games. Not even a girls' magazine like Suzette bothered to include female cyclists when they included a cycling game in 1956. Of course, at the time, there were not many women's cycling races. Remember, for instance, that women's cycling was not included in the Olympic Games until 1984. 

Fortunately, the situation is changing, both in real cycling and in board games, and we can only hope that this list will grow in the near future.

WOMEN'S CYCLING RACES
MIXED CYCLING

 

 

 

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