Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's road time trial

Men's road time trial
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Grumari Circuit - Pontal
Venue Pontal, Rio de Janeiro
54.5 km (33.9 mi)
Date 10 August 2016
Competitors 40 from 30 nations
Winning time 1:12:15.42
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Fabian Cancellara  Switzerland
2nd, silver medalist(s) Tom Dumoulin  Netherlands
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Chris Froome  Great Britain

The men's individual time trial was one of 18 cycling events of the 2016 Olympic Games. The event started and finished on 10 August at Pontal, a small peninsula and beach area in the Recreio dos Bandeirantes neighborhood, located in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The race start and finish were part of the Barra venues cluster and one of seven temporary venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1]

Qualification

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Pre-race favourites

Following his stage win in the final time trial of the 2016 Tour de France, Chris Froome of Great Britain was projected as the favourite for the gold medal.[3] Time trial specialists like Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara, Germany's Tony Martin, Tom Dumoulin of the Netherlands and reigning world time trial champion Vasil Kiryienka of Belarus were also possible contenders.

Course

The men's course was two laps of the 29.8 km (18.5 mi) Grumari circuit for a race distance of 54.5 km (33.9 mi). The race start and finish of the course was at the Tim Maia Square (Estrada do Pontal), then entering the Grumari circuit (clockwise) to reach the first climb (Grumari climb) after 9.7 km (6.0 mi) and the second climb (Grota Funda climb) at 19.2 km (11.9 mi).[4]

Start list and results

At the finish during the event

Richie Porte of Australia, Vincenzo Nibali of Italy and Wout Poels of the Netherlands were due to participate, but had to withdraw due to injuries as a result of their crashes in the men's road race. Algeria, Colombia, New Zealand and Venezuela also forfeited places for which they had qualified. Dan Craven of Namibia, and Geraint Thomas of Great Britain were invited to fill two of the vacancies in the field.[5][6]

No.[7] Rider Country Pos. Time[8]
5 Fabian Cancellara  Switzerland 1st, gold medalist(s) 1:12:15.42
2 Tom Dumoulin  Netherlands 2nd, silver medalist(s) 1:13:02.83
1 Chris Froome  Great Britain 3rd, bronze medalist(s) 1:13:17.54
13 Jonathan Castroviejo  Spain 4 1:13:21.50
8 Rohan Dennis  Australia 5 1:13:25.66
11 Maciej Bodnar  Poland 6 1:14:05.89
9 Nelson Oliveira  Portugal 7 1:14:15.27
7 Ion Izagirre  Spain 8 1:14:21.59
16 Geraint Thomas  Great Britain[5] 9 1:14:52.85
14 Primož Roglič  Slovenia 10 1:14:55.16
21 Leopold König  Czech Republic 11 1:15:23.64
4 Tony Martin  Germany 12 1:15:33.75
25 Simon Geschke  Germany 13 1:15:49.88
20 Michał Kwiatkowski  Poland 14 1:15:55.49
10 Jan Bárta  Czech Republic 15 1:15:56.91
28 Georg Preidler  Austria 16 1:16:02.36
3 Vasil Kiryienka  Belarus 17 1:16:05.70
26 Andriy Grivko  Ukraine 18 1:16:33.24
29 Christopher Juul-Jensen  Denmark 19 1:16:49.62
19 Tim Wellens  Belgium 20 1:16:49.71
17 Hugo Houle  Canada 21 1:17:02.04
6 Taylor Phinney  United States 22 1:17:25.31
24 Brent Bookwalter  United States 23 1:17:57.61
23 Andrey Zeits  Kazakhstan 24 1:18:47.63
12 Kanstantsin Sivtsov  Belarus 25 1:18:58.75
30 Eduardo Sepúlveda  Argentina 26 1:19:07.84
22 Damiano Caruso  Italy 27 1:19:46.53
31 Pavel Kochetkov  Russia 28 1:20:07.59
27 Alexis Vuillermoz  France 29 1:20:43.87
18 Edvald Boasson Hagen  Norway 30 1:21:12.35
34 Ghader Mizbani  Iran 31 1:21:39.45
15 Julian Alaphilippe  France 32 1:24:39.99
33 Mouhssine Lahsaini  Morocco 33 1:25:11.72
35 Ahmet Örken  Turkey 34 1:27:37.41
37 Dan Craven  Namibia[9] 35 1:27:47.93
32 Jonathan Monsalve  Venezuela DNS —
36 Youcef Reguigui  Algeria DNS —

References

  1. ↑ "Rio Olympic Games Facilities: Barra Region". brasil2016.gov.br. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
  2. ↑ NOCs qualified for Road Cycling men’s events (PDF), UCI, 25 March 2015, p. 2
  3. ↑ Westby, Matt (9 August 2016). "Olympic Cycling: Men's and women's time trials preview". Sky Sports. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "Rio 2016 Road Cycling - Men's Time Trial" (PDF). UCI.ch. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
  5. 1 2 Abraham, Richard (9 August 2016). "Geraint Thomas confirmed for Olympic Games time trial". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "Thomas, Craven confirmed for Olympic Games time trial". Cycling News. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  7. ↑ "Rio Olympics time trial start lists". Velonews. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  8. ↑ "Men's Individual Time Trial - Standings". Rio2016. 11 August 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  9. ↑ Wynn, Nigel (9 August 2016). "Dan Craven decides to ride Rio Olympics time trial after Twitter vote". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 9 August 2016.

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