Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's road time trial Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's road time trial The men's road time trial, one of the cycling events at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, took place on 1 August over a course in southwest London and Surrey. Bradley Wiggins of Great Britain won the gold medal. Each nation in the top 15 of the 2011 UCI World Tour, top 7 of the UCI Europe Tour, top 4 of the UCI America Tour, top 2 of the UCI Asia Tour and leaders of the UCI Oceania and Africa Tours qualified to have one rider in the race.
2011 Tour of Britain the race. The race was held as part of the 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour, and was categorised by the UCI as a 2.1 category race. The race was won by rider Lars Boom, who claimed the leader's gold jersey after two stage victories, as well as a strong finish on the individual time trial stage. Boom maintained his advantage to the end of the race, with a winning margin over runner-up 's Steve Cummings of 36 seconds, and 's Jan Bárta completed the podium, 19 seconds behind Cummings and 55 seconds down on Boom. In the race's other classifications, 's