Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's points race

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These are the official results of the Men's Points Race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There were a total number of 23 participants competing in the final, which was held on 20 September 2000.

The men's points race in cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics consisted of a 160 lap (40 kilometre) points race with 16 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:
Juan Llaneras, Spain Milton Wynants, Uruguay Aleksei Markov, Russia

Results

Rank Name Nation Sprint
Points
Extra
Laps
1 Juan Llaneras Spain 14 2
2 Milton Wynants Uruguay 18 1
3 Aleksei Markov Russia 16 1
4 Cho Ho-Sung South Korea 15 1
5 Jamie Carney United States 10 1
6 Franz Stocher Austria 8 1
7 Glen Thomson New Zealand 6 1
8 Silvio Martinello Italy 5 1
9 Brian Walton Canada 1 1
10 Stuart O'Grady Australia 26 0
11 Wong Kam Po Hong Kong 14 0
12 Bruno Risi Switzerland 13 0
13 Jonny Clay Great Britain 10 0
14 Juan Curuchet Argentina 8 0
15 Matthew Gilmore Belgium 6 0
16 Makoto Iijima Japan 6 0
17 Vasyl Yakovlev Ukraine 5 0
18 Wilco Zuijderwijk Netherlands 3 0
19 Christophe Capelle France 2 0
20 Sergey Lavrenenko Kazakhstan 1 0
21 Marlon Pérez Colombia 0 0
22 Jimmi Madsen Denmark 0 0
23 Thorsten Rund Germany 0 0

References

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