The men's road race C4-5 cycling event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics took place on September 17 at Pontal, Rio. The race distance was 60 km.

Death of Bahman Golbarnezhad

During this race, the Iranian cyclist, Bahman Golbarnezhad suffered a head injury during a collision with a rock on a mountainous stretch of the circuit in Pontal Beach. Golbarnezhad was treated on-site, and was in the process of being transported to the athletes' hospital when he died from a cardiac arrest. The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announced that it would investigate the incident, and the I. R. Iran National Paralympic Committee requested a report on the incident from the IPC. Golbarnezhad's death marked the first time since the 1960 Summer Olympics that an Olympic or Paralympic athlete had died during competition.

Following the incident, the flag of Iran was lowered to half-mast in the Paralympic Village, and for the Iranian sitting volleyball victory against Bosnia and Herzegovina. A period of silence was also held during the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Results : Men's road race C4-5

RankName Nationality Classification Time Deficit Daniel Abraham Gebru C5 02:13:08 0 Lauro Chaman C5 02:13:46 38 Andrea Tarlao C5 s.t. s.t. 4 Patrik Kuril C4 s.t. s.t. 5 Alistair Donohoe C5 02:14:03 55 6 Kyle Bridgwood C4 02:15:41 02:33:00 7 Pierpaolo Addesi C5 s.t. s.t. 8 Wolfgang Eibeck C5 02:17:45 04:37:00 9 Carol-Eduard Novak C4 02:18:07 04:59:00 10 Edwin Matiz Ruiz C5 02:19:26 06:18:00 11 Jiri Bouska C4 s.t. s.t. 12 Thomas Schafer C4 s.t. s.t. 13 Jiří Ježek C4 02:19:36 06:28:00 14 Soelito Gohr C5 02:24:25 11:17:00 15 Tomas Kajnar C5 s.t. s.t. 16 José Frank Rodríguez C5 02:27:07 13:59:00 17 Damian Lopez Alfonso C4 02:29:33 16:25:00 18 Leonel Solis C4 02:30:09 17:01:00 19 Jeffrey Martin C4 02:32:26 19:18:00 20 Christopher Murphy C5 s.t. s.t. 21 Dane Wilson C5 02:38:50 25:42:00 22 Diego Duenas Gomez C4 02:46:29 33:21:00 - Jozef Metelka C4 DNF - - Xinyang Liu C5 DNF - - Cesar Neira Perez C4 DNF - - Guoping Wei C4 DNF - - Bahman Golbarnezhad C4 DNF - - Masashi Ishii C4 DNF - - Alfonso Cabello Llamas C5 DNF - - Yegor Dementyev C5 DSQ -

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