Summer Paralympics 2016 / cycling

Cycling at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
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venue	Rio de Janeiro
Competition venue	Rio Olympic Velodrome (track) Pontal Beach (road)
date	8-11 September 2016 (train) 14.-17. September 2016 (road)
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In cycling , around 230 athletes competed in a total of 50 competitions at the 2016 Summer Paralympics , 17 on the track and 33 on the road.

The program included sprints , individual pursuits , 1000-meter time trials on the track as well as road races and individual time trials . The track competitions were held in the Rio Olympic Velodrome , the road competitions on Pontal , a peninsula near Rio.

The most successful nation was Great Britain with a total of 21 medals, including twelve gold medals. The British also provided the Games' most successful female athlete: Sarah Storey won three gold medals. Second place in the medal table was taken by Germany with a total of 15 medals. The oldest German participant, Hans-Peter Durst , won two of the gold medals in the tricycle category T. Austria placed 14th in the medal table with two silver medals, and the mixed relay of handbikers won a bronze medal for Switzerland.

The Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad had an accident on the last day of the competition . The athlete, who was missing a lower leg and was competing in the Paralympics for the second time, had a serious fall in the C4-5 road race, suffered cardiac arrest after arriving at the hospital and died shortly afterwards. There was a minute's silence for him at the graduation ceremony. It was the first death in Paralympic history.

Performance classes

The performance classes in paracycling are differentiated according to discipline:

• Cycling ( racing bike ): C1 - C5, with C1 denoting the greatest impairment
• Tandem for the visually impaired who ride with a visually impaired pilot: B.
• Handbike : H1 - H4
• Tricycle : T1 - T2

Track cycling

Men

discipline	class	time	gold	silver	bronze
1000 meter time trial	B.	59.822 s	Tristan Bangma / Teun Mulder	Neil Fachie / Peter Mitchell	Kai Kruse / Stefan Nimke
	C1-3	1: 06.678	Li Zhangyu	Arnoud Nijhuis	Dreary Cernove
	C4-5	1: 02.473	Jody Cundy	Jozef Metelka	Alfonso Cabello Llamas
One's pursuit	B.	4: 08.146	Steve Bate / Adam Duggleby	Vincent ter Schure / Timo Fransen	Stephen de Vries / Patrick Bos
	C1	3: 53.970	Li Zhangyu	Ross Wilson	Arnoud Nijhuis
	C2	3: 44.553	Liang Guihua	Tristen Chernove	Louis Rolfe
	C3	3: 33.028	David Nicholas	Joseph Berenyi	Eoghan Clifford
	C4	OVL	Jozef Metelka	Kyle Bridgwood	Diego German Duenas Gomez
	C5	4: 24.057	Jehor Dementjew	Alistair Donohoe	Edwin Fabian Matiz Ruiz

Women

discipline	class	time	gold	silver	bronze
Time trial	B (1 km)	1: 06.283 min	Sophie Thornhill / Helen Scott	Larissa Klaassen / Haliegh Dolman	Jessica Gallagher / Madison Janssen
	C1-3 (500 m)	36.908 s	Alyda Norbruis	Amanda Reid	Song Zhenling
	C4-5 (500 m)	34,598 s	Kadeena Cox	Zhou Jufang	Ruan Jianping
One's pursuit	B.	3: 28.050 min	Lora Turnham / Corrine Hall	Emma Foy / Laura Thompson	Sophie Thornhill / Helen Scott
	C1-3	OVL	Megan Giglia	Jamie Whitmore	Alyda Norbruis
	C4	3: 59.407 min	Shawn Morelli	Susan Powell	Megan Fisher
	C5	OVL	Sarah Storey	Crystal Lane	Samantha Bosco

Mixed competition

discipline	class	time	gold	silver	bronze
Team sprint	C1-5	49.454	Jon-Allan Butterworth Jody Cundy Louis Rolfe	Liu Xinyang Wei Guoping Xie Hao	Alfonso Cabello Llamas Amador Granados Alkorta Eduardo Santas Asensio

Road cycling

Men

discipline	class	time	gold	silver	bronze
Individual time trial	B.	34: 35.33 min	Steve Bate / Adam Duggleby	Vincent ter Schure / Timo Fransen	Kieran Modra / David Edwards
	H2	32: 07.09 min	Luca Mazzone	William Groulx	Brian Sheridan
	H3	28: 19.45 min	Vittorio Podesta	Walter Ablinger	Charles Moreau
	H4	27: 39.31 min	Rafał Wilk	Thomas Frühwirth	Vico Merklein
	H5	28: 36.81 min	Alessandro Zanardi	Stuart Tripp	Oscar Sanchez
	C1	27: 53.98 min	Michael Teuber	Ross Wilson	Giancarlo Masini
	C2	27: 43.16 min	Tristen Chernove	Colin Lynch	Liang Guihua
	C3	38: 21.79 min	Eoghan Clifford	Masaki Fujita	Michael Sametz
	C4	37: 52.84 min	Jozef Metelka	Kyle Bridgwood	Patrik Kuril
	C5	36: 53.23 min	Jehor Dementjew	Alistair Donohoe	Lauro César Chaman
	T1-2	22: 57.34 min	Hans-Peter Durst	Ryan Boyle	David Stone
Road racing	B.	2:26:33 h	Vincent ter Schure / Timo Fransen	Ignacio Avila Rodriguez / Joan Font Bertoli	Steve Bate / Adam Duggleby
	H2	1:15:23 h	William Groulx	Luca Mazzone	Tobias Fankhauser
	H3	1:33:17 h	Paolo Cecchetto	Maximilian Weber	Charles Moreau
	H4	1:28:48 h	Vico Merklein	Rafał Wilk	Joel Jeannot
	H5	1:37:49 h	Ernst van Dyk	Alessandro Zanardi	Jetze Plat
	C1-3	1:49:11 h	Steffen Warias	Kris Bosmans	Fabio Anobile
	C4-5	2:13:08 h	Daniel Abraham Gebru	Lauro César Chaman	Andrea Tarlao
	T1-2	50:57 min	Hans-Peter Durst	David Stone	Nestor Ayala Ayala

Women

discipline	class	time	gold	silver	bronze
Individual time trial	B.	38: 59.22 min	Kathy George Dunlevy / Evelyn McCrystal	Yurie Kanuma / Mai Tanaka	Lora Turnham / Corrine Hall
	H1-3	33: 44.93 min	Karen Darke	Alicia Dana	Francesca Porcellato
	H4-5	31: 35.46 min	Dorothee Vieth	Andrea Eskau	Laura de Vaan
	C1-3	29: 46.51 min	Alyda Norbruis	Denise Schindler	Zeng Sini
	C4	29: 45.40 min	Shawn Morelli	Megan Fisher	Susan Powell
	C5	27: 22 ', 42 min	Sarah Storey	Anna Harkowska	Samantha Bosco
	T1-2	26: 11.40 min	Carol Cooke	Jill Walsh	Shelley Gautier
Road racing	B.	1:58:02 h	Iwona Podkoscielna / Aleksandra Teclaw	Katie George Dunlevy / Evelyn McCrystal	Emma Foy / Laura Thompson
	H1-4	1:15:56 h	Christiane Reppe	Lee Doyeon	Francesca Porcellato
	H5	1:37:07 h	Andrea Eskau	Laura de Vaan	Dorothee Vieth
	C1-3	1:30:14 h	Jamie Whitmore	Zeng Sini	Denise Schindler
	C4-5	2:15:42 h	Sarah Storey	Anna Harkowska	Crystal Lane
	T1-2	1:07:51 h	Carol Cooke	Jill Walsh	Jana Majunke

Mixed competition

discipline	class	time	gold	silver	bronze
Season	H2-5	32:34 min	Vittorio Podesta Luca Mazzone Alessandro Zanardi	William Lachenauer William Groulx Oscar Sanchez	Jean-Francois Deberg Christophe Hindricq Jonas Van De Steene

Bids

Germany

Women

• Kerstin Brachtendorf , Andrea Eskau , Jana Majunke , Christiane Reppe , Denise Schindler , Dorothee Vieth

Men

• Hans-Peter Durst , Kai Kruse , Vico Merklein , Stefan Nimke , Thomas Schäfer , Michael Teuber , Steffen Warias , Max Weber , Erich Winkler

Austria

• Walter Ablinger , Wolfgang Eibeck , Thomas Frühwirth , Wolfgang Schattauer

Switzerland

Women

• Sandra Graf (standard bearer), Sandra Stöckli

Men

• Roger Bolliger , Tobias Fankhauser , Heinz Frei , Lukas Weber

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	United Kingdom	12	3	6th	21st
2	Germany	8th	3	4th	15th
3	Netherlands	5	5	6th	16
4th	Italy	5	2	5	12
5	United States	4th	7th	5	18th
6th	Australia	3	7th	3	13
7th	People's Republic of China	3	3	4th	10
8th	Poland	2	3	0	5
9	Ireland	2	2	1	5
10	Slovakia	2	1	1	4th
11	Ukraine	2	0	0	2
12	Canada	1	3	5	9
13	South Africa	1	0	0	1
14th	Austria	0	2	0	2
	Japan	0	2	0	2
16	Spain	0	1	2	3
17th	Belgium	0	1	1	2
	Brazil	0	1	1	2
	New Zealand	0	1	1	2
20th	South Korea	0	1	0	1
21st	Colombia	0	0	3	3
22nd	France	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Total		50	50	50	150

Web links

Commons : Summer Paralympics 2016 / Cycling  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Results on Rio2016.com
• DBS - competitive sport - bigger team travels to the Paralympics. In: dbs-npc.de. August 25, 2016. Retrieved September 2, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Iranian Para-Cycler Golbarnezhad had a fatal accident at Paralympics. In: rad-net.de. March 25, 2013, accessed September 18, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Rio de Janeiro: Iranian cyclist dies at the Paralympics. In: zeit.de . September 18, 2016, accessed September 20, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Rio 2016 - Sports - Cycling. In: oepc.at. OEPC, accessed September 3, 2016 .