Summer Olympics 2016 Rio: Riders ITT – men

The top fifteen ranked countries in the final standings of the 2011 UCI World Tour all bring one rider to the table to start with. The next fifteen contenders will be selected based on performances in the continental UCI-races: UCI Europe Tour, UCI Africa Tour, UCI America Tour, UCI Asia Tour and UCI Ocenia Tour. The last ten riders are from the top ten countries in last year’s ITT at the World Cycling Championships of Ponferrada.

Start list Olympic Time Trial in Rio

Countries with two riders
Australia: Rohan Dennis, Richie Porte
Belarus: Vasil Kiryienka, Kanstantsin Sivtsov
Czechia: Jan Bárta, Leopold König
France: Julian Alaphilippe, Alexis Vuillermoz
Germany: Simon Geschke, Tony Martin
Great Britain: Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas
Italy: Damiano Caruso, Vincenzo Nibali
Netherlands: Tom Dumoulin, Wout Poels
New Zealand: George Bennett, Zac Williams
Poland: Maciej Bodnar, Michal Kwiatkowski
Spain: Ion Izagirre, Jonathan Castroviejo
United States: Brent Bookwalter, Taylor Phinney

Countries with one rider
Algeria: Youcef Reguigui
Argentina: Eduardo Sepúlveda
Austria: Georg Preidler
Belgium: Tim Wellens
Colombia: Rigoberto Uran
Denmark: Christopher Juul Jensen
Iran: Ghader Mizbani
Kazakhstan: Alexey Lutsenko
Morocco: Mouhssine Lahsaini
Namibia: Dan Craven
Norway: Edvald Boasson Hagen
Portugal: Nélson Oliveira
Russia: Pavel Kochetkov
Slovenia: Primoz Roglic
Switzerland: Fabian Cancellara
Turkey: Ahmet Örken
Ukraine: Andriy Hrivko
Venezuela: Yonathan Monsalve

Time trialists also in road race
Participating nations are allowed to bring only as much riders to Rio as are qualified to start in the road race, meaning all time trialists will have the road race on their agenda as well.