Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race
The men's road race was one of 18 cycling events of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The race started and finished on 6 August at Fort Copacabana and was won by Greg Van Avermaet of Belgium.
Qualification
Pre-race favourites
Due to the grueling nature of the course, the riders expected to finish with a medal were all known for their climbing and descending skills. Favorites heading into the race were Alejandro Valverde, Vincenzo Nibali, Chris Froome, Joaquim Rodríguez and Julian Alaphilippe, many expected that Chris Froome may have had the assistance of some of his Team Sky teammates and the advantage of attempting something historic: If he had won gold, he would have become the first person to ever win Tour de France and the cycling road race in the same season.Course
The men's course was long. Starting at Fort Copacabana, the peloton headed west to pass through Ipanema, Barra, and Reserva Maripendi Beaches via the coastal road leading to the Pontal / Grumari circuit loop. After four laps of the Grumari sector, the course returned east via the same coastal road to enter the Vista Chinesa Circuit loop at Gávea for three laps before finishing back at Fort Copacabana. As with all road races in the Olympic Games, the athletes are escorted by law enforcement to keep traffic and bystanders out of harm's way. For the 2016 Olympics, escort for the riders is done by the Brazilian Federal Highway Police.2016 Olympic cycling road course maps
Start list
The following NOCs had qualified riders to compete in the road race event. The following riders were confirmed by their respective NOCs.| NOC | Number | Athletes | Ref |
| 2 | Abderrahmane Mansouri Youcef Reguigui | ||
| 3 | Daniel Díaz Maximiliano Richeze Eduardo Sepúlveda | ||
| 4 | Rohan Dennis Simon Clarke Richie Porte Scott Bowden | ||
| 2 | Stefan Denifl Georg Preidler | ||
| 1 | Maksym Averin | ||
| 2 | Vasil Kiryienka Kanstantsin Sivtsov | ||
| 5 | Philippe Gilbert Serge Pauwels Greg van Avermaet Tim Wellens Laurens De Plus | ||
| 1 | Óscar Soliz | ||
| 2 | Murilo Fischer Kléber Ramos | ||
| 1 | Stefan Hristov | ||
| 3 | Antoine Duchesne Hugo Houle Michael Woods | ||
| 1 | José Luis Rodríguez | ||
| 5 | Esteban Chaves Sergio Henao Miguel Ángel López Jarlinson Pantano Rigoberto Urán | ||
| 1 | Andrey Amador | ||
| 2 | Kristijan Đurasek Matija Kvasina | ||
| 4 | Jan Bárta Leopold König Zdeněk Štybar Petr Vakoč | ||
| 3 | Jakob Fuglsang Christopher Juul-Jensen Chris Anker Sørensen | ||
| 1 | Diego Milán | ||
| 1 | Byron Guamá | ||
| 1 | Daniel Teklehaimanot | ||
| 2 | Tanel Kangert Rein Taaramäe | ||
| 1 | Tsgabu Grmay | ||
| 4 | Julian Alaphilippe Romain Bardet Warren Barguil Alexis Vuillermoz | ||
| 4 | Emanuel Buchmann Simon Geschke Maximilian Levy Tony Martin | ||
| 5 | Chris Froome Steve Cummings Ian Stannard Geraint Thomas Adam Yates | ||
| 1 | Ioannis Tamouridis | ||
| 1 | Manuel Rodas | ||
| 1 | Cheung King Lok | ||
| 3 | Ghader Mizbani Arvin Moazemi Samad Pourseyedi | ||
| 2 | Dan Martin Nicolas Roche | ||
| 5 | Fabio Aru Vincenzo Nibali Damiano Caruso Alessandro De Marchi Diego Rosa |
| NOC | Number | Athletes | Ref |
| 2 | Yukiya Arashiro Kohei Uchima | ||
| 2 | Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev Andrey Zeits | ||
| 1 | Qëndrim Guri | ||
| 1 | Ariya Phounsavath | ||
| 2 | Toms Skujiņš Aleksejs Saramotins | ||
| 2 | Ramūnas Navardauskas Ignatas Konovalovas | ||
| 1 | Fränk Schleck | ||
| 3 | Anass Aït El Abdia Soufiane Haddi Mouhssine Lahsaini | ||
| 1 | Luis Lemus | ||
| 1 | Dan Craven | ||
| 4 | Tom Dumoulin Steven Kruijswijk Bauke Mollema Wout Poels | ||
| 2 | George Bennett Zac Williams | ||
| 4 | Edvald Boasson Hagen Sven Erik Bystrøm Vegard Stake Laengen Lars Petter Nordhaug | ||
| 4 | Maciej Bodnar Michał Gołaś Michał Kwiatkowski Rafał Majka | ||
| 4 | André Cardoso Rui Costa José Mendes Nelson Oliveira | ||
| 1 | Brian Babilonia | ||
| 1 | Serghei Țvetcov | ||
| 3 | Sergey Chernetskiy Alexey Kurbatov Pavel Kochetkov | ||
| 1 | Adrien Niyonshuti | ||
| 1 | Ivan Stević | ||
| 1 | Patrik Tybor | ||
| 4 | Matej Mohorič Jan Polanc Primož Roglič Simon Špilak | ||
| 2 | Daryl Impey Louis Meintjes | ||
| 2 | Kim Ok-cheol Seo Joon-yong | ||
| 5 | Jonathan Castroviejo Imanol Erviti Ion Izagirre Joaquim Rodríguez Alejandro Valverde | ||
| 4 | Michael Albasini Fabian Cancellara Steve Morabito Sébastien Reichenbach | ||
| 1 | Ali Nouisri | ||
| 2 | Ahmet Örken Onur Balkan | ||
| 3 | Andriy Hrivko Denys Kostyuk Andriy Khripta | ||
| 1 | Yousif Mirza | ||
| 2 | Brent Bookwalter Taylor Phinney | ||
| 2 | Miguel Ubeto Jonathan Monsalve |