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


The men's individual time trial was one of 18 cycling events of the 2016 Summer Olympics. 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.

Qualification

Pre-race favourites

Dutchman Tom Dumoulin was seen as the favorite for the gold medal. Other athletes considered to be contenders for the gold were Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara, Australia's Rohan Dennis, Great Britain's Chris Froome, Spain's Ion Izagirre, reigning world time trial champion Vasil Kiryienka of Belarus, Germany's Tony Martin and Portugal's Nelson Oliveira.

Course

The men's course was two laps of the Grumari circuit for a race distance of. The race start and finish of the course was at the Tim Maia Square, then entering the Grumari circuit to reach the first climb after and the second climb at.

Start list and results

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.
No.RiderCountryPos.Time
5Fabian Cancellara1:12:15.42
2Tom Dumoulin1:13:02.83
1Chris Froome1:13:17.54
13Jonathan Castroviejo41:13:21.50
8Rohan Dennis51:13:25.66
11Maciej Bodnar61:14:05.89
9Nelson Oliveira71:14:15.27
7Ion Izagirre81:14:21.59
16Geraint Thomas91:14:52.85
14Primož Roglič101:14:55.16
21Leopold König111:15:23.64
4Tony Martin121:15:33.75
25Simon Geschke131:15:49.88
20Michał Kwiatkowski141:15:55.49
10Jan Bárta151:15:56.91
28Georg Preidler161:16:02.36
3Vasil Kiryienka171:16:05.70
26Andriy Grivko181:16:33.24
29Christopher Juul-Jensen191:16:49.62
19Tim Wellens201:16:49.71
17Hugo Houle211:17:02.04
6Taylor Phinney221:17:25.31
24Brent Bookwalter231:17:57.61
23Andrey Zeits241:18:47.63
12Kanstantsin Sivtsov251:18:58.75
30Eduardo Sepúlveda261:19:07.84
22Damiano Caruso271:19:46.53
31Pavel Kochetkov281:20:07.59
27Alexis Vuillermoz291:20:43.87
18Edvald Boasson Hagen301:21:12.35
34Ghader Mizbani311:21:39.45
15Julian Alaphilippe321:24:39.99
33Mouhssine Lahsaini331:25:11.72
35Ahmet Örken341:27:37.41
37Dan Craven351:27:47.93
32Jonathan Monsalve—
36Youcef Reguigui—