Belgium, Colombia, Great Britain, Italy and Spain are allowed to start with a five riders squad. Nations ranked 6 to 15 in the 2015 UCI World Tour come with four-man squads, while the other qualifications are based on the continental UCI-rankings.
Start list Olympic Road Race in Rio
Countries with five riders
Belgium: Greg Van Avermaet, Serge Pauwels, Laurens De Plus, Tim Wellens, Philippe Gilbert
Colombia: Esteban Chaves, Sergio Henao, Miguel Ángel López, Rigoberto Urán, Jarlinson Pantano
Germany: Emanuel Buchmann, Simon Geschke, Maximilian Levy, Tony Martin
Great Britain: Geraint Thomas, Chris Froome, Adam Yates, Stephen Cummings, Ian Stannard
Italy: Vincenzo Nibali, Fabio Aru, Diego Rosa, Damiano Caruso, Alessandro De Marchi
Spain: Alejandro Valverde, Imanol Erviti, Ion Izagirre, Jonathan Castroviejo, Joaquim Rodriguez
Countries with four riders
Australia: Rohan Dennis, Richie Porte, Simon Clarke, Glenn O’Shea
France: Warren Barguil, Julian Alaphilippe, Romain Bardet, Alexis Vuillermoz
Netherlands: Tom Dumoulin, Bauke Mollema, Wout Poels, Steven Kruijswijk
Norway: Sven Erik Bystrøm, Edvald Boasson Hagen, Vegard Stake Laengen, Lars Petter Nordhaug
Poland: Maciej Bodnar, Michal Golas, Michal Kwiatkowski, Rafal Majka
Portugal: André Cardoso, Rui Costa, José Mendes, Nélson Oliveira
Slovenia: Primoz Roglic, Simon Spilak, Matej Mohoric, Jan Polanc
Switzerland: Michael Albasini, Steve Morabito, Sebastien Reichenbach, Fabian Cancellara
Countries with three riders
Argentina: Daniel Diaz, Maximiliano Richeze, Eduardo Sepúlveda
Canada: Antoine Duchesne, Hugo Houle, Michael Woods
Czechia: Jan Bárta, Leopold König, Zdeněk Štybar, Petr Vakoč
Denmark: Jakob Fuglsang, Christopher Juul-Jensen, Chris Anker Sørensen
Iran: Ghader Mizbani, Arvin Moazzami, Samad Pourseyedi
Morocco: Anass Aït El Abdia, Soufiane Haddi, Mouhssine Lahsaini
Russia: Sergei Chernetckii, Pavel Kochetkov, Alexey Kurbatov
Ukraine: Andriy Hrivko, Denys Kostyuk, Mark Padun
Countries with two riders
Algeria: Abderrahmane Mansouri, Youcef Reguigui
Austria: Stefan Denifl, Georg Preidler
Belarus: Vasil Kiryienka, Kanstantsin Sivtsov
Brazil: Murilo Fischer, Kléber Ramos
Croatia: Kristijan Đurasek, Matija Kvasina
Estonia: Tanel Kangert, Rein Taaramäe
Ireland: Dan Martin, Nicolas Roche
Japan: Yukiya Arashiro, Kohei Uchima
Kazakhstan :Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev, Andrey Zeits
Latvia: Toms Skujiņš, Aleksejs Saramotins
Lithuania: Ramūnas Navardauskas, Ignatas Konovalovas
New Zealand: George Bennett, Zac Williams
South Africa: Daryl Impey, Louis Meintjes
South Korea: Kim Ok-cheol, Seo Joon-yong
Turkey: Ahmet Örken, Onur Balkan
United States: Brent Bookwalter, Taylor Phinney
Venezuela: Miguel Armando Ubeto, Yonathan Monsalve
Countries with one rider
Azerbaijan: Maksym Averin
Bolivia: Óscar Soliz
Bulgaria: Stefan Hristov
Chile: José Luis Rodríguez
Costa Rica: Andrey Amador
Dominican Republic: Diego Milán
Ecuador: Byron Guamá
Eritrea: Daniel Teklehaimanot
Ethiopia: Tsgabu Grmay
Greece: Ioannis Tamouridis
Guatemala: Manuel Rodas
Hong Kong: Leung Chun Wing
Kosovo: Qëndrim Guri
Laos: Ariya Phounsavath
Luxembourg: Fränk Schleck
Mexico: Luis Lemus
Namibia: Dan Craven
Puerto Rico: Brian Babilonia
Romania: Serghei Țvetcov
Rwanda: Adrien Niyonshuti
Serbia: Ivan Stević
Slovakia: Patrik Tybor
Tunisia: Ali Nouisri
United Arab Emirates: Yousif Mirza