Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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

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

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. There were no changes made to the 2016 Olympic cycling programme compared to the cycling at the 2012 Olympics.

Venues VenueClusterSportDateMedal eventsCapacity Fort Copacabana Copacabana Cluster Road cycling(road race) 6–7 August 2 5000 (seating)Unlimited (standing) 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) Rio Olympic Velodrome Barra Cluster Track cycling 11–16 August 10 7500

Qualification

Participation

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

Competition schedule

+BMX, mountain biking and road cycling Event↓/Date → Sat 6 Sun 7 Wed 10 Wed 17 Thu 18 Fri 19 Sat 20 Sun 21 Men's BMX H ¼ ½F Women's BMX H ½F 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 Date → Thu 11 Fri 12 Sat 13 Sun 14 Mon 15 Tue 16Event ↓ E E M E E M E M E Men's keirin H ½F Men's omnium SR IP ER TT FL PR Men's sprint H ¼ ½ F Men's team pursuit H ½F Men's team sprint H ½F Women's keirin H ½F Women's omnium SR IP ER TT FL PR Women's sprint H ¼ ½ F Women's team pursuit H ½F Women's team sprint H ½F <noinclude>

Medalists

Medal table

Road cycling Men's road raceMen's time trialWomen's road raceWomen's time trial

Track cycling Men's Keirin Omnium Team pursuitEd ClancySteven BurkeOwain DoullBradley Wiggins Alexander EdmondsonJack BobridgeMichael HepburnSam WelsfordCallum ScotsonLasse Norman HansenNiklas LarsenFrederik MadsenCasper von FolsachRasmus Quaade Sprint Team sprint Philip HindesJason KennyCallum Skinner Eddie DawkinsEthan MitchellSam Webster Grégory BaugéMichaël D'AlmeidaFrançois Pervis

Women's Keirin Omnium Team pursuitKatie ArchibaldLaura TrottElinor BarkerJoanna Rowsell Shand Sarah HammerKelly CatlinChloé DygertJennifer Valente Allison BeveridgeJasmin GlaesserKirsti LayGeorgia SimmerlingLaura Brown Sprint Team sprint Gong JinjieZhong Tianshi Daria ShmelevaAnastasia Voynova Miriam WelteKristina Vogel

Mountain biking Men's Women's

BMX Men'sWomen's

Broken records

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.

Cycling track

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

In addition to the event records, Great Britain's Jason Kenny matched compatriate Chris Hoy as the most successful male cyclist in Olympic history, with six gold medals and a silver over three Games.

Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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