Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's points race
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These are the official results of the Women's Points Race
Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics, 3 different Bicycle racing disciplines were contested: Road cycling, Track cycling, and Mountain biking.-Medal table:-Road cycling:-Track cycling:MenWomen-Mountain biking:-References:*...

at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

in Sydney, Australia. There were a total number of 17 participants competing in the final, which was held on September 21, 2000.

The women's points race in cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics, 3 different Bicycle racing disciplines were contested: Road cycling, Track cycling, and Mountain biking.-Medal table:-Road cycling:-Track cycling:MenWomen-Mountain biking:-References:*...

 consisted of a 100 laps (25 kilometre) points race
Points race
A points race is a mass start track cycling event involving large numbers of riders simultaneously on track. It was an Olympic event for men between 1984–2008 and for women 1996-2008....

 with 10 sprints where points were awarded. 5 points were given to the first finisher of each sprint, with 3 going to the second place finisher, 2 going to the third place cyclist, and 1 going to the fourth place rider. Double points were award in the final sprint. The winner is determined first by number of laps, and then by the total number of points accumulated.

Medalists

Gold: Silver: Bronze:
Antonella Bellutti
Antonella Bellutti
Antonella Bellutti is an Italian racing cyclist and two-time Olympic champion in track cycling.Born in Bolzano, in South Tyrol, she now resides in Rovereto, in Trentino....

 
Leontien Zijlaard
Leontien van Moorsel
Leontine Martha Henrica Petronella van Moorsel is a former Dutch racing cyclist.Van Moorsel started her career in the late 1980s and was soon one of the best cyclists in the world. She won major races both on the track, and on the road...

 
Olga Slyusareva
Olga Slyusareva
Olga Anatolyevna Slyusareva is a Russian professional racing cyclist. She won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in the points race, bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in the points race, and at the 2004 Olympic Games in the road race.-Career highlights:19951998Olga Anatolyevna Slyusareva...

 

Results

Rank Name Nation Sprint
Points
Extra
Laps
1 Antonella Bellutti
Antonella Bellutti
Antonella Bellutti is an Italian racing cyclist and two-time Olympic champion in track cycling.Born in Bolzano, in South Tyrol, she now resides in Rovereto, in Trentino....

19 0
2 Leontien Zijlaard
Leontien van Moorsel
Leontine Martha Henrica Petronella van Moorsel is a former Dutch racing cyclist.Van Moorsel started her career in the late 1980s and was soon one of the best cyclists in the world. She won major races both on the track, and on the road...

16 0
3 Olga Slyusareva
Olga Slyusareva
Olga Anatolyevna Slyusareva is a Russian professional racing cyclist. She won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in the points race, bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in the points race, and at the 2004 Olympic Games in the road race.-Career highlights:19951998Olga Anatolyevna Slyusareva...

15 0
4 Judith Arndt
Judith Arndt
Judith Arndt is a German professional cyclist for the T-Mobile Women cycling team. She won the bronze medal in the 3000 m pursuit event at the 1996 Summer Olympics when she was 20...

12 0
5 Belem Guerrero
Belem Guerrero
Belem Guerrero Méndez is a Mexican track cyclist who represented Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where she won a silver medal in the Women's Points Race.-Palmarès:19971998199920012002...

12 0
6 Marion Clignet
Marion Clignet
Marion Clignet is a French former track cyclist. Clignet was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 22 and was shunned by the United States Cycling Federation, and she subsequently raced for France.- Palmarès :...

11 0
7 Teodora Ruano
Teodora Ruano
María Teodora Adoracion Ruano Sanchón is a retired female track and road racing cyclist from Spain. She represented her native country at three Summer Olympics: in 1992, 2000, and 2004...

10 0
8 Sarah Ulmer
Sarah Ulmer
Sarah Elizabeth Ulmer, ONZM is the first New Zealander to win an Olympic cycling gold. She won a gold medal and set world records at the 2004 Summer Olympics at Athens,....

9 0
9 Alayna Burns 7 0
10 Erin Mirabella
Erin Mirabella
Erin Veenstra-Mirabella is an American competitive cyclist. She represented the United States at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. Mirabella is a six-time national champion...

6 0
11 María Luisa Calle
María Luisa Calle
María Luisa Calle Williams is a Colombian professional racing cyclist. She was born in Medellín.In the 2004 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the cycling women's points race, the first Colombian to win a medal in cycling. She was forced to return the medal after positive test result for...

2 0
12 Rasa Mažeikytė 2 0
13 Fang Fen-Fang 0 0
14 Emma Davies
Emma Davies (cyclist)
Emma Davies Jones is a British Olympic cyclist. She competed in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.-Biography:Born in Knutsford, Cheshire...

0 0
15 Michaela Brunngraber 0 0
16 Akemi Morimoto 0 0
17 Maureen Kaila 0 0
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