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Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Pictograms for, top to bottom, BMX, Mountain, Road and Track cycling.
Venue Olympic BMX Center (BMX)
Mountain Bike Centre (Mountain)
Fort Copacabana, Pontal (Road)
Rio Olympic Velodrome (Track)
Dates 6–21 August
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Cycling at the
2016 Summer Olympics
List of cyclists
Road cycling
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Road race men women
Time trial men women
Track cycling
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Sprint men women
Team sprint men women
Keirin men women
Team pursuit men women
Omnium men women
Mountain biking
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Cross-country men women
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Qualification

The cycling competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeirowere held at four venues scheduled to host Eighteen events between 6 August and 21 August.

The venues were Fort Copacabana in the Copacabana venues were in Clusters for the start and finish of the road cycling road race,[1] Pontal in the Barra Cluster for the road cycling time trial competitions, the Rio Olympic Velodrome, also in the Barra Cluster for track cycling,[2] theOlympic BMX Center for BMX and the Mountain Bike Centre for mountain biking, both in the Deodoro Cluster.[3]

Cycling competitions had been contested in every Summer Olympics programme since the first modern Olympiad in 1896 alongside athletics,artistic gymnastics, fencing and swimming.

Since the 1896 contests which featured five track events and a 87 km road race from Athens to Marathon and back, Olympic cycling had gradually evolved to include women’s competitions, mountain bike and BMX to arrive at the current eighteen events

in February 2013, the International Cycling Union (UCI) announced its intention to petition the IOC to extend the cycling programme by three events for both men and women: the return of the points races (track event), a BMX freestyle event and a mountain bike eliminator but in August 2013 the IOC stated that the cycling programme will be the same as in 2012.[4] No changes were made to the 2016 Olympic cycling programme compared to the cycling at the 2012 Olympics.

Venues[edit]

Venue Cluster Sport Date Medal events Capacity
Fort Copacabana Copacabana Cluster Road cycling
(road race)		 6–7 August 2 5000 (seating)
Unlimited (standing)[N 1]
Mountain Bike Centre Deodoro Cluster Mountain biking 20–21 August 2 5000 (seating)
20000 (standing)
Olympic BMX Center Deodoro Cluster BMX 17–19 August 2 5000
Pontal Barra Cluster Road cycling
(time trial)		 10 August 2 5000 (seating)
Unlimited (standing)[N 1]
Rio Olympic Velodrome Barra Cluster Track cycling 11–16 August 10 7500
  1. ^ Jump up to:a b There will be free viewing areas alongside the route.

Qualification[edit]

Main article: Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Participation[edit]

Participating nations[edit]

Brazil, as the host country, receives guaranteed quota place in case it would not qualify any qualification places.

Competition schedule[edit]

H Heats/preliminaries ¼ Quarterfinals ½ Semifinals F Final
BMX, mountain biking and road cycling[6]
Event↓/Date → Sat 6 Sun 7 Wed 10 … Wed 17 Thu 18 Fri 19 Sat 20 Sun 21
Men’s BMX H ¼ ½ F
Women’s BMX H ½ F
Mountain biking
Men’s cross-country F
Women’s cross-country F
Road cycling
Men’s road race F
Men’s time trial F
Women’s road race F
Women’s time trial F
Track cycling[6]
Date → Thu 11 Fri 12 Sat 13 Sun 14 Mon 15 Tue 16
Event ↓ E E M E E M E M E
Men’s Keirin H ½ F
Men’s Omnium SR IP ER TT FL PR
Men’s sprint H ¼ ½ F
Men’s team pursuit H ½ F
Men’s team sprint H ½ F
Women’s Keirin H ½ F
Women’s Omnium SR IP ER TT FL PR
Women’s sprint H ¼ ½ F
Women’s team pursuit H ½ F
Women’s team sprint H ½ F

M = Morning session, E = Evening session
FL = Flying Lap, PR = Points Race, ER = Elimination Race, IP = Individual Pursuit, SR = Scratch Race, TT = Time Trial

Medalists[edit]

Medal table[edit]

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Great Britain 6 4 2 12
2 Netherlands 2 3 1 6
3 United States 2 3 0 5
4 Switzerland 2 0 0 2
5 Sweden 1 1 0 2
6 Belgium 1 0 1 2
Colombia 1 0 1 2
Germany 1 0 1 2
Italy 1 0 1 2
10 China 1 0 0 1
11 Russia 0 2 1 3
12 Denmark 0 1 2 3
13 Australia 0 1 1 2
Poland 0 1 1 2
15 Czech Republic 0 1 0 1
New Zealand 0 1 0 1
17 Canada 0 0 2 2
18 France 0 0 1 1
Malaysia 0 0 1 1
Spain 0 0 1 1
Venezuela 0 0 1 1
Total 18 18 18 54

Road cycling[edit]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men’s road race
details		 Greg Van Avermaet
 Belgium		 Jakob Fuglsang
 Denmark		 Rafał Majka
 Poland
Women’s road race
details		 Anna van der Breggen
 Netherlands		 Emma Johansson
 Sweden		 Elisa Longo Borghini
 Italy
Men’s time trial
details		 Fabian Cancellara
 Switzerland		 Tom Dumoulin
 Netherlands		 Chris Froome
 Great Britain
Women’s time trial
details		 Kristin Armstrong
 United States		 Olga Zabelinskaya
 Russia		 Anna van der Breggen
 Netherlands

Track cycling[edit]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men’s Keirin
details		 Jason Kenny
 Great Britain		 Matthijs Buchli
 Netherlands		 Azizulhasni Awang
 Malaysia
Women’s Keirin
details		 Elis Ligtlee
 Netherlands		 Becky James
 Great Britain		 Anna Meares
 Australia
Men’s Omnium
details		 Elia Viviani
 Italy		 Mark Cavendish
 Great Britain		 Lasse Norman Hansen
 Denmark
Women’s Omnium
details		 Laura Trott
 Great Britain		 Sarah Hammer
 United States		 Jolien D’Hoore
 Belgium
Men’s team pursuit
details		  Great Britain (GBR) WR
Ed Clancy
Steven Burke
Owain Doull
Sir Bradley Wiggins		  Australia (AUS)
Alexander Edmondson
Jack Bobridge
Michael Hepburn
Sam Welsford
Callum Scotson		  Denmark (DEN)
Lasse Norman Hansen
Niklas Larsen
Frederik Madsen
Casper von Folsach
Rasmus Quaade
Women’s team pursuit
details		  Great Britain (GBR) WR
Katie Archibald
Laura Trott
Elinor Barker
Joanna Rowsell		  United States (USA)
Sarah Hammer
Kelly Catlin
Chloe Dygert
Jennifer Valente		  Canada (CAN)
Allison Beveridge
Jasmin Glaesser
Kirsti Lay
Georgia Simmerling
Laura Brown
Men’s individual sprint
details		 Jason Kenny
 Great Britain		 Callum Skinner
 Great Britain		 Denis Dmitriev
 Russia
Women’s individual sprint
details		 Kristina Vogel
 Germany		 Becky James
 Great Britain		 Katy Marchant
 Great Britain
Men’s team sprint
details		  Great Britain (GBR) OR
Philip Hindes
Jason Kenny
Callum Skinner		  New Zealand (NZL)
Eddie Dawkins
Ethan Mitchell
Sam Webster		  France (FRA)
Grégory Baugé
Michaël D’Almeida
François Pervis
Women’s team sprint
details		  China (CHN)
Gong Jinjie
Zhong Tianshi		  Russia (RUS)
Daria Shmeleva
Anastasia Voynova		  Germany (GER)
Miriam Welte
Kristina Vogel

Mountain biking[edit]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men’s cross-country
details		 Nino Schurter
 Switzerland		 Jaroslav Kulhavý
 Czech Republic		 Carlos Coloma Nicolás
 Spain
Women’s cross-country
details		 Jenny Rissveds
 Sweden		 Maja Włoszczowska
 Poland		 Catharine Pendrel
 Canada

BMX[edit]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men
details		 Connor Fields
 United States		 Jelle van Gorkom
 Netherlands		 Carlos Ramirez
 Colombia
Women
details		 Mariana Pajón
 Colombia		 Alise Post
 United States		 Stefany Hernandez
 Venezuela

Broken records[edit]

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2016 Summer Olympics and List of Olympic records in cycling

At least one record in track cycling was set, the women’s team pursuit Olympic record. After the 2012–13 track cycling season the UCI changed the women’s 3000 metre team pursuit discipline for 3 riders into a format of 4000 metre with 4 riders.

Event Name Nation Score Date Record
Women’s team pursuit Katie Archibald
Laura Trott
Elinor Barker
Joanna Rowsell		 Great Britain 4:10.236 14 August OR WR

See also