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Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's points race

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Women's points race
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
VenueLaoshan Velodrome
DatesAugust 18
Competitors22 from 22 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Marianne Vos  Netherlands
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yoanka González  Cuba
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Leire Olaberria  Spain
← 2004

The women's points race at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 18 at the Laoshan Velodrome in Beijing, China.

This track cycling event consists of a single race which is a 25 kilometre, 100 lap race. During the race, cyclists can score points in two ways; the cyclist with the most points at the end of the race wins. The first way to score points is to lap the group. Each time a cyclist gained a full lap on the peloton, she scored 20 points. If a cyclist lost a full lap to the peloton, however, she would lose 20 points. The other method of scoring points was to place in the intermediate sprints, held every 10 laps. The first four cyclists in each of those sprints would score, with the first finisher getting 5 points, the second 3, the third 2, and the fourth 1 point.[1]

Results

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Rank[2] Name Country Sprint
Points
Extra
Laps
Total
Points
Marianne Vos  Netherlands 10 1 30
Yoanka González  Cuba 18 0 18
Leire Olaberria  Spain 13 0 13
4 María Luisa Calle  Colombia 13 0 13
5 Lesya Kalytovska  Ukraine 10 0 10
6 Katherine Bates  Australia 10 0 10
7 Pascale Jeuland  France 8 0 8
8 Olga Slyusareva  Russia 8 0 8
9 Gina Grain  Canada 6 0 6
10 Yan Li  China 6 0 6
11 Rebecca Romero  Great Britain 3 0 3
12 Svetlana Pauliukaite  Lithuania 2 0 2
13 Lada Kozlíková  Czech Republic 2 0 2
14 Vera Carrara  Italy 1 0 1
15 Wan Yiu Wong  Hong Kong 0 0 0
16 Evelyn García  El Salvador 0 0 0
17 Catherine Cheatley  New Zealand 0 0 0
18 Trine Schmidt  Denmark 0 0 0
19 Lee Min-Hye  South Korea 0 -2 -40
Sarah Hammer  United States DNF
Satomi Wadami  Japan DNF
Verena Jooss  Germany -1 DNF

References

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  1. ^ "Competition Format". Beijing 2008 Olympic Games official website. Archived from the original on 2008-08-15. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
  2. ^ "Results: Women's Points Race". Beijing 2008 Olympic Games official website. August 18, 2008. Archived from the original on August 21, 2008.