Located at Rio's western zone, the Pontal was the focus for the start for the road cycling
time trials, with 18 medals to be decided across various different classifcations.
First up was the men's C2 time trial.
15 athletes were competing for gold over the 20km course.
China's Liang Guihua had a medal on his mind as set off along Rio's roads - his time of
28-17.77 the time to beat.
Ireland's Colin Lynch did exactly that crosing the line with a time of 28-02-25
But it was Canada's Tristen Chernove who road to glory with a time 27-43-16.
Gold for Canada, silver for Ireland and bronze for
China.
The Women's C5 time trial got underway.
Sarah Story of Great Britain was the favourite for gold.
USA 's Samantha Bosco was eager for a medal Great Braitains Crystal Lane was 5th at the
split, eventually finishing 4th Team mate Sarah Storey rode an impressive
race to take gold by over a minute Next up was the women's C4 classification
USA's Shawn Morelli set a fast pace from the start
A pace that the rest of the field struggled to keep up with
Morelli taking gold in a time of 29-45.40 The Mens C1 time trail saw Germany's Micheal
Teuber get off to a good start Juan Jose Mendez Fernandez of Spain, had a
great ride making the split in 5th place and Canada's Ross Wilson was improving on
the final lap Michael Teuber was too striong in the end
comfortably taking gold It was onto the womens C1,2 and 3.
Germany's Denise Schindler was leading after 10 k....
In the end Schindler was pipped to the post by Alyda Norbruis from the Netherlan
The mens time trial H5 classification got underway....
Alassandro Zanardi was 3rd at the turn,.. ...the Italian going on to take gold
In the men's H4 time trail, Miko Merkelen giving it his all to take gold for Germany
, so too was Thomas Fruwirth of Austria But it was Polands Rafal Wilk who proved victorious
Men's Time trial H3 was next to leave the Pontal....
Vittorio Podesta of Italy was very fast over the first 10 kilometers...
And faster still over the second 10k to take the gold medal
In the women's time trail H4 and 5, Korea's Lee Doyeon maintained a steady pace
The Netherlands, Laura Devaan cycling hard, taking bronze, Germany's Andrea Eskau taking
sliver and Dorothee Vieth taking gold Attention now turned to the Men's Time trial
H2 William GROULX from the USA made the early running, eventually taking silver
Ahead of compatriot Brian Sheridan who took bronze.
Italy's Luca Mazzone took the gold by the smallest margin, just 6 seconds
ahead of Groulx Next was the women's H1 ,2 and 3, a race that
went right to the wire.
Italy'sFrancesca Porcellato secured Bronze as the USA's Alicia DANA and Karen DARKE of
Great Britain battled it out for gold.
In the end DARKE taking it, 13 seconds quicker
than DANA Next was the tandems as the men's time trial
B left the Pontal....
The Netherlands Timo Fransen and Vincent Ter SCHURE set the
early pace of this 30kmrace as the 22 team field tried to chase them down...
The only team that did was Great Britain's Adam
DUGGLEBY and Steve BATE taking gold with 8 seconds to spare
From the tandems back to the singles with the men's C5. 14 athletes chasing 3 medals
again over a distance of 30km Alistair DONOHOE of Australia rode himself to a silver...
The top six riders in this classification averaging in excess of 47 kilometres an
hour.
The race though belonged to Ukraine's Yehor DEMENTYEV as he took the gold!!
Next toleave the Pontal was the mens C4 time trial, 30 km split into two laps of 15km to
decide the top three.
And it was Jozef METELKA from Slovakia who proved to be too
good for the rest as he took gold in a time of 37.52 point 84.
Next was the men's time trial C3 Belgiums Diederick Sschelfhout,
who only found out amonth ago he would be competing, tried to advance up the
standingsJapan's Fujita was more successful in second place.
Clifford from Ireland took gold in a comfortable time of 38.21.79 The
women's time trial B was next and Great Britain's Lora Turnham and Corrine Hall made good headway
in the first 10k.
The Brazilian team was beginning to show signs
of fatigue but it was the Irish duo who lead throughout and won the gold medal.
Hans Peter DURST started the men's time trial T1-2
very quickly.
No matterhow much David Stone from Great Britain tried to narrow the
gap DURST from Germany remained tough to beat.
Durst took gold with a time of 22.57.34 The last time trial was the women's
T1-2 which started with Australia's Carol Cook.
Jill Walsh of the USA looked determined for top spot, as did Canada's Shelley
Gautier.
Cook, who took gold in London ended up with gold in Rio as well.
(with a time of 26.11.4