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. The event started and finished on 10 August at

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of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The race start and finish were part of the Barra venues cluster and one of seven temporary venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Qualification

Pre-race favourites

Dutchman Tom Dumoulin was seen as the favorite for the gold medal. Other athletes considered to be contenders for the gold were Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara, Australia's Rohan Dennis, Great Britain's Chris Froome, Spain's

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, reigning world time trial champion Vasil Kiryienka of Belarus, Germany's Tony Martin and Portugal's Nelson Oliveira.

Course

The men's course was two laps of the Grumari circuit for a race distance of . The race start and finish of the course was at the Tim Maia Square (Estrada do Pontal), then entering the Grumari circuit (clockwise) to reach the first climb (Grumari climb) after and the second climb (Grota Funda climb) at .

Start list and results

Richie Porte of Australia, Vincenzo Nibali of Italy and Wout Poels of the Netherlands were due to participate, but had to withdraw due to injuries as a result of their crashes in the men's road race. Algeria, Colombia, New Zealand and Venezuela also forfeited places for which they had qualified.

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of Namibia, and Geraint Thomas of Great Britain were invited to fill two of the vacancies in the field.

References

External links

Rio de Janeiro Olympic venues map
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