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


The women's individual time trial was one of eighteen 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.

Qualification

Pre-race favourites

American Kristin Armstrong was the 2008 and 2012 gold medalist. However, with the event scheduled one day before her forty-third birthday, Armstrong was not among the betting favorites.
The world champions after the 2012 Summer Olympics were the Dutch Ellen van Dijk, German Lisa Brennauer and the New Zealand Linda Villumsen. More recently, Ellen van Dijk had won the time trial in the 2016 Energiewacht Tour, beating Villumsen and Brennauer.

Course

The women's course was one lap of the Grumari circuit. The race start and finish of the course were at the Tim Maia Square, then entering the Grumari circuit to reach the first climb after and the second climb at.

Start list and result

The following 18 NOCs had qualified a total of 25 riders to compete in the road time trial event. The following riders were confirmed by their respective NOCs.
No.RiderCountryPos.Time
1Kristin Armstrong44:26.42
5Olga Zabelinskaya44:31.97
3Anna van der Breggen44:37.80
7Ellen van Dijk444:48.74
9Elisa Longo Borghini544:51.94
2Linda Villumsen644:54.71
18Tara Whitten745:01.16
4Lisa Brennauer845:22.62
11Katrin Garfoot945:35.03
6Evelyn Stevens1046:00.08
16Alena Amialiusik1146:05.73
10Ashleigh Moolman1246:29.11
14Karol-Ann Canuel1346:30.93
15Emma Pooley1446:31.98
22Eri Yonamine1546:43.09
12Trixi Worrack1646:52.77
20Lotta Lepisto1747:06.52
17Katarzyna Niewiadoma1847:47.96
25Anna Plichta1947:59.66
8Hanna Solovey2048:03.35
24Lotte Kopecky2148:09.86
23Christine Majerus2248:16.17
13Ann-Sophie Duyck2348:17.60
19Audrey Cordon2449:32.87
21Vita Heine2550:23.39