Olympic Games Rio 2016 – Individual Time Trial – Men [FULL RACE]

August 10, 2016
Olympic Games Rio 2016 – Individual Time Trial – Men [FULL RACE] – Fort Copacabana – Fort Copacabana – 237,5 km

The men’s individual time trial is one of 18 cycling events of the 2016 Olympic Games. The event starts and finishes 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 will be part of the Barra venues cluster and one of seven temporary venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland) closed his illustrious Olympic Games career with an emotional victory in the men’s time trial. Cancellara put in a storming ride in Rio to beat pre-race favourites Tom Dumoulin (Netherland) and Chris Froome (Great Britain) with his time of 1:12:15.

It is the second Olympic time trial title for Cancellara, who took gold in Beijing eight years ago. Despite his pedigree in the discipline, Cancellara was by no means the favourite going in but he had shown that he was climbing well with a strong performance in the road race. Competing in the final Olympic time trial of his career, the Swiss rider was a man on a mission, posting the fastest time at the top of the Grumari climb by a hairs breath over Rohan Dennis (Australia).

There was a brief blip at the second check, where he lost almost 25 seconds to Dennis, but that was quickly put behind him as he sailed back to the top by the time he hit the second lap. He would stay there right to the finish, demolishing the present fastest time of Jonathan Castroviejo (Spain) by over a minute.

Cancellara had a few tense moments to see whether his time would actually be good enough to secure the gold medal. Dumoulin had pushed him close on a couple of occasions over the course but the flat run to the line proved enough for Cancellara to extend his advantage over the Dutchman to 47 seconds. Froome was the final rider to come complete the 54.6km course, but he had no answer to Cancellara and just slipped into third place. It was heartbreak for Castroviejo, who missed out on a medal by just four seconds.

Results :

1 Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland) 1:12:15
2 Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands) 0:00:47
3 Christopher Froome (Great Britain) 0:01:02
4 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spain) 0:01:06
5 Rohan Dennis (Australia) 0:01:10
6 Maciej Bodnar (Poland) 0:01:50
7 Nelson Oliveira (Portugal) 0:02:00
8 Jon Izaguirre Insausti (Spain) 0:02:06
9 Geraint Thomas (Great Britain) 0:02:37
10 Primoz Roglic (Slovenia) 0:02:40
11 Leopold Konig (Czech Republic) 0:03:08
12 Tony Martin (Germany) 0:03:18
13 Simon Geschke (Germany) 0:03:34
14 Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland) 0:03:40
15 Jan Barta (Czech Republic) 0:03:41
16 Georg Preidler (Austria) 0:03:47
17 Vasil Kiryienka (Belarus) 0:03:50
18 Andriy Grivko (Ukraine) 0:04:18
19 Christopher Juul Jensen (Denmark) 0:04:34
20 Tim Wellens (Belgium) 0:04:34
21 Hugo Houle (Canada) 0:04:47
22 Taylor Phinney (United States Of America) 0:05:10
23 Brent Bookwalter (United States Of America) 0:05:42
24 Andrey Zeits (Kazakhstan) 0:06:32
25 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Belarus) 0:06:43
26 Eduardo Sepulveda (Argentina) 0:06:52
27 Damiano Caruso (Italy) 0:07:31
28 Pavel Kochetkov (Russian Federation) 0:07:52
29 Alexis Vuillermoz (France) 0:08:28
30 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Norway) 0:08:57
31 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Islamic Republic of Iran) 0:09:24
32 Julian Alaphilippe (France) 0:12:25
33 Mouhssine Lahsaini (Morocco) 0:12:56
34 Ahmet Orken (Turkey) 0:15:22
35 Dan Craven (Namibia) 0:15:33
DNS Yonathan Monsalve (Venezuela)
DNS Youcef Reguigui (Algeria)