As a host nation, Brazil had been awarded a single place each in the men's and women's BMX race at the Olympics, but the BMX riders had secured one men's and one women's quota place each, as a result of the nation's twelfth-place finish for, men in the UCI Olympic Nr.ing Liste over May 31, 2016, and top two for women, not yet qualified, at the 2016 UCI BMX World Championships in Medellín, Colombia.