Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's individual road race

Women's cycling road race
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
The podium of the event
VenueFort Copacabana
141 km (87.6 mi)
Date7 August 2016
Competitors68 from 39 nations
Winning time3:51:27
Medalists
   Netherlands
   Sweden
   Italy
Cycling at the
2016 Summer Olympics
List of cyclists
Qualification
Road cycling
Road race   men   women
Time trial men women
Track cycling
Sprint men women
Team sprint men women
Keirin men women
Team pursuit men women
Omnium men women
Mountain biking
Cross-country men women
BMX
BMX men women

The women's road race was one of 18 cycling events of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The event was held on 7 August 2016 at Fort Copacabana and was won by Anna van der Breggen from the Netherlands.

Qualification

[1]

Course

The women's course was 141 km (87.6 mi) long. Starting at Fort Copacabana,[2] the peloton headed west to pass through Ipanema, Barra, and Reserva Maripendi Beaches via the coastal road leading to the 24.8 km (15.4 mi) Pontal / Grumari circuit loop.[3] After two laps of the Grumari sector 49.6 km (30.8 mi), the course returned east via the same coastal road to enter the Vista Chinesa Circuit loop at Gávea for one lap of the 25.7 km (16.0 mi) circuit before finishing back at Fort Copacabana.[4] As with all road races during the Olympic Games, law enforcement escorted the athletes to keep them and bystanders safe during the competition. The Brazilian Federal Highway Police (PRF) were assigned the duty to escort the athletes during the 2016 Olympics.

Forte de Copacabana
The venue of the race
The start/finish
(The start pictured)
2016 Olympic Cycling
Women's Road Course: 141 km
2016 Olympic Cycling
Grumari Circuit: 24.8 km
2016 Olympic Cycling
Vista Chinesa Circuit: 25.7 km

Start list

The following NOCs had qualified riders to compete in the road race event. The following riders were confirmed by their respective NOCs.

Dutch cyclist Ellen van Dijk and her fans
NOC # Athletes Confirmed Athletes Ref
Australia 4 Gracie Elvin
Katrin Garfoot
Rachel Neylan
Amanda Spratt
*
Austria 1 Martina Ritter*
Azerbaijan 1 Olena Pavlukhina*
Belgium 3 Ann-Sophie Duyck
Lotte Kopecky
Anisha Vekemans
[5]
Belarus 1 Alena Amialiusik*
Brazil 2 Clemilda Fernandes
Flávia Oliveira
[6]
Canada 3 Karol-Ann Canuel
Leah Kirchmann
Tara Whitten
*
Chile 1 Paola Munoz Grandon*
Colombia 1 Ana Christina Sanabria Sanchez *
Cuba 1 Arlenis Sierra*
Cyprus 1 Antri Christoforou*
Spain 1 Ane Santesteban [7]
Finland 1 Lotta Lepistö [8]
France 2 Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
Audrey Cordon
[9]
Great Britain 3 Lizzie Armitstead
Nikki Harris
Emma Pooley
*
Germany 4 Lisa Brennauer
Romy Kasper
Claudia Lichtenberg
Trixi Worrack
*
Israel 1 Shani Bloch*
Italy 4 Elisa Longo Borghini
Giorgia Bronzini
Tatiana Guderzo
Elena Cecchini
*
Japan 1 Eri Yonamine*
South Korea 1 Ah Reum Na*
Lithuania 1 Daiva Tuslaite*
Luxembourg 2 Christine Majerus
Chantal Hoffmann
*
Mexico 1 Carolina Rodriguez Gutierrez*
Namibia 1 Vera Adrian*
Netherlands 4 Marianne Vos
Anna van der Breggen
Ellen van Dijk
Annemiek van Vleuten
[10]
Norway 1 Vita Heine*
New Zealand 1 Linda Villumsen*
Poland 3 Katarzyna Niewiadoma
Malgorzata Jasinska
Anna Plichta
*
South Africa 2 Ashleigh Moolman
An-Li Pretorius
*
Russia 1 Olga Zabelinskaya* [11]
Slovenia 1 Polona Batagelj*
Switzerland 1 Jolanda Neff [12]
Sweden 3 Emma Johansson
Sara Mustonen
Emilia Fahlin
[13]
Thailand 1 Jutatip Maneephan*
Chinese Taipei 1 Ting Ying Huang*
Ukraine 1 Hanna Solovey*
United States 4 Mara Abbott
Kristin Armstrong
Megan Guarnier
Evelyn Stevens
*
Venezuela 1 Jennifer Cesar*

* ref:[14]

Over time limit (OTL)
Under UCI regulations for one-day road races (article 2.3.039), "Any rider finishing in a time exceeding that of the winner by more than 5% shall not be placed".[15]

Result

Emma Johansson (left) finished second
Elisa Longo Borghini finished third
Final results[16][17]
Rank Rider Time
1st, gold medalist(s)  Anna van der Breggen (NED) 3h 51' 27"
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Emma Johansson (SWE) s.t.
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA) s.t.
4  Mara Abbott (USA) + 4"
5  Lizzie Armitstead (GBR) + 20"
6  Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL) s.t.
7  Flávia Oliveira (BRA) s.t.
8  Jolanda Neff (SUI) s.t.
9  Marianne Vos (NED) + 1' 14"
10  Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (RSA) s.t.
Final Classification (11 50)
11  Megan Guarnier (USA) s.t.
12  Evelyn Stevens (USA) + 1' 16"
13  Alena Amialiusik (BLR) + 2' 16"
14  Tatiana Guderzo (ITA) + 2' 19"
15  Amanda Spratt (AUS) + 4' 09"
16  Olga Zabelinskaya (RUS) + 4' 25"
17  Eri Yonamine (JPN) + 4' 56"
18  Christine Majerus (LUX) + 5' 07"
19  Lisa Brennauer (GER) s.t.
20  Elena Cecchini (ITA) s.t.
21  Ellen van Dijk (NED) s.t.
22  Rachel Neylan (AUS) s.t.
23  Linda Villumsen (NZL) s.t.
24  Małgorzata Jasińska (POL) s.t.
25  Karol-Ann Canuel (CAN) s.t.
26  Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (FRA) s.t.
27  Emilia Fahlin (SWE) + 6' 36"
28  Arlenis Sierra (CUB) s.t.
29  Anisha Vekemans (BEL) s.t.
30  Na Ah-reum (KOR) s.t.
31  Claudia Lichtenberg (GER) s.t.
32  Polona Batagelj (SLO) s.t.
33  Vita Heine (NOR) + 7' 07"
34  Daiva Tušlaitė (LTU) s.t
35  Olena Pavlukhina (AZE) + 7' 38"
36  Hanna Solovey (UKR) + 9' 35"
37  Audrey Cordon (FRA) + 9' 37"
38  Leah Kirchmann (CAN) + 10' 02"
39  An-Li Pretorius (RSA) s.t.
40  Ana Sanabria (COL) s.t.
41  Anna Plichta (POL) s.t.
42  Giorgia Bronzini (ITA) + 10' 06"
43  Trixi Worrack (GER) s.t.
44  Romy Kasper (GER) + 10' 40"
45  Lotte Kopecky (BEL) s.t.
46  Martina Ritter (AUT) s.t.
47  Ane Santesteban (ESP) + 11' 32"
48  Shani Bloch (ISR) s.t.
49  Gracie Elvin (AUS) + 11' 34"
50  Jennifer Cesar (VEN) + 11' 51"
Over time limit
 Clemilda Fernandes (BRA) OTL
 Antri Christoforou (CYP) OTL
Did not finish
 Annemiek van Vleuten (NED) DNF
 Kristin Armstrong (USA) DNF
 Katrin Garfoot (AUS) DNF
 Tara Whitten (CAN) DNF
 Nikki Harris (GBR) DNF
 Emma Pooley (GBR) DNF
 Sara Mustonen (SWE) DNF
 Ann-Sophie Duyck (BEL) DNF
 Chantal Hoffmann (LUX) DNF
 Lotta Lepistö (FIN) DNF
 Carolina Rodríguez (MEX) DNF
 Paola Muñoz (CHI) DNF
 Jutatip Maneephan (THA) DNF
 Vera Adrian (NAM) DNF
 Milagro Mena (CRC) DNF
 Huang Ting-ying (TPE) DNF

References

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  15. UCI Cycling Regulations, Part II: Road Races, UCI, 1 February 2012, p. 31
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