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 (Estrada do Pontal), then entering the Grumari circuit (clockwise) to reach the first climb (Grumari climb) after and the second climb (Grota Funda climb) at .
Start list and results
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.
Pos. Rider Country No. Time Fabian Cancellara 5 1:12:15.42 Tom Dumoulin 2 1:13:02.83 Chris Froome 1 1:13:17.54 4 Jonathan Castroviejo 13 1:13:21.50 5 Rohan Dennis 8 1:13:25.66 6 Maciej Bodnar 11 1:14:05.89 7 Nelson Oliveira 9 1:14:15.27 8 Ion Izagirre 7 1:14:21.59 9 Geraint Thomas 16 1:14:52.85 10 Primož Roglič 14 1:14:55.16 11 Leopold König 21 1:15:23.64 12 Tony Martin 4 1:15:33.75 13 Simon Geschke 25 1:15:49.88 14 Michał Kwiatkowski 20 1:15:55.49 15 Jan Bárta 10 1:15:56.91 16 Georg Preidler 28 1:16:02.36 17 Vasil Kiryienka 3 1:16:05.70 18 Andriy Grivko 26 1:16:33.24 19 Christopher Juul-Jensen 29 1:16:49.62 20 Tim Wellens 19 1:16:49.71 21 Hugo Houle 17 1:17:02.04 22 Taylor Phinney 6 1:17:25.31 23 Brent Bookwalter 24 1:17:57.61 24 Andrey Zeits 23 1:18:47.63 25 Kanstantsin Sivtsov 12 1:18:58.75 26 Eduardo Sepúlveda 30 1:19:07.84 27 Damiano Caruso 22 1:19:46.53 28 Pavel Kochetkov 31 1:20:07.59 29 Alexis Vuillermoz 27 1:20:43.87 30 Edvald Boasson Hagen 18 1:21:12.35 31 Ghader Mizbani 34 1:21:39.45 32 Julian Alaphilippe 15 1:24:39.99 33 Mouhssine Lahsaini 33 1:25:11.72 34 Ahmet Örken 35 1:27:37.41 35 Dan Craven 37 1:27:47.93 Jonathan Monsalve 32 — Youcef Reguigui 36 —
References
External links Rio de Janeiro Olympic venues map (rio2016.com)