The women's

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was one of eighteen cycling events of the

2016 Olympic Games ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro d ...

. The event started and finished on 10 August at Pontal, a small peninsula and beach area in the

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neighborhood, located in the West Zone of

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. 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

American

Kristin Armstrong Kristin Armstrong Savola (; born August 11, 1973) is a former professional road bicycle racer and three-time Olympic gold medalist, the winner of the women's individual time trial in 2008, 2012, and 2016. Before temporarily retiring to start a ...

was the 2008 and 2012 gold medalist. However, with the event scheduled one day before her forty-third birthday, Armstrong was not among the betting favorites. The world champions after the 2012 Summer Olympics were the Dutch

Ellen van Dijk Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (; born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Besides road cycling she was also a track cyclist until 2012. Van Dijk is known as a tim ...

(

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), German

Lisa Brennauer Lisa Brennauer (born 8 June 1988) is a German former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2022, for six different teams. On the track, Brennauer won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's team pursuit with ...

(

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) and the New Zealand

Linda Villumsen Linda Melanie Villumsen Serup (born 9 April 1985) is a Danish-born road racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Women's Team . Villumsen became a New Zealand citizen in 2009 and has ridden under a Kiwi licence from 2010. Career Born in Herning, ...

( 2015). More recently,

had won the time trial in the 2016 Energiewacht Tour, beating Villumsen (3rd) and Brennauer (9th).

Course

The women's course was one lap of the Grumari circuit. The race start and finish of the course were 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 result

The following 18 NOCs had qualified a total of 25 riders to compete in the road time trial event. The following riders were confirmed by their respective NOCs.

References

External links

Rio de Janeiro Olympic venues map
(rio2016.com) {{DEFAULTSORT:Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics - Women's road time trial Women's road time trial 2016 in women's road cycling Cycling at the Summer Olympics – Women's individual time trial Women's events at the 2016 Summer Olympics