Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Cycling; at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
	Pictograms from top: 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 2016
No. of events	18
Competitors	from 80 nations
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The cycling competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro were held at four venues scheduled to host eighteen events between 6 August and 21 August.

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The venues were Fort Copacabana in the Copacabana, venues were in Clusters for the start and finish of the road cycling 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] the Olympic 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 an 87 km road race from Athens to Marathon and back, Olympic cycling had gradually evolved to include women's competitions, mountain biking and BMX, resulting to 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. However, in August 2013, the IOC stated that the cycling programme would be the same as in 2012.^[4] There were no changes made to the 2016 Olympic cycling programme compared to the cycling at the 2012 Olympics.^[5]

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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

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

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

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
13	Poland	0	1	1	2
15	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
15	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
Totals (21 entries)		18	18	18	54

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

Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Venues

Qualification

Participation

Participating nations

Competition schedule

Medalists

Medal table

Road cycling

Track cycling

Men's

Women's

Mountain biking

BMX

Broken records

Cycling track

See also

References

External links

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Event	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Date	Record
Women's Team Pursuit	Qualifying	Great Britain	Great Britain	4:13.260	11 August	OR, WR
Men's Team Sprint	Qualifying	Great Britain	Great Britain	42.562	11 August	OR
Men's Team Sprint	First Round	New Zealand	New Zealand	42.535	11 August	OR
Men's Team Sprint	Finals	Great Britain	Great Britain	42.440	11 August	OR
Men's Sprint	Qualifying	Jason Kenny	Great Britain	9.551	12 August	OR
Women's Team Sprint	Qualifying	China	China	32.305	12 August	OR
Women's Team Sprint	First Round	China	China	31.928	12 August	OR, WR
Men's Team Pursuit	First Round	Great Britain	Great Britain	3:50.570	12 August	OR, WR
Men's Team Pursuit	Finals	Great Britain	Great Britain	3:50.265	12 August	OR, WR
Women's Team Pursuit	1st Round	United States	United States	4:12.282	13 August	OR, WR
Women's Team Pursuit	1st Round	Great Britain	Great Britain	4:12.152	13 August	OR, WR
Women's Team Pursuit	Finals	Great Britain	Great Britain	4:10.236	13 August	OR, WR
Omnium Individual Pursuit	Finals	Lasse Norman Hansen	Denmark	4:14.982	13 August	OR