Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's points race
| Women's points race at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Laoshan Velodrome | ||||||||||||
| Dates | August 18 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 22 from 22 nations | ||||||||||||
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| Road race | men | women |
| Time trial | men | women |
| Track cycling | ||
| Individual pursuit | men | women |
| Team pursuit | men | |
| Sprint | men | women |
| Team sprint | men | |
| Points race | men | women |
| Keirin | men | |
| Madison | men | |
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| Cross-country | men | women |
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| BMX | men | women |
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
[edit]| Rank[2] | Name | Country | Sprint Points | Extra Laps | Total Points |
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 | 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
[edit]- ^ "Competition Format". Beijing 2008 Olympic Games official website. Archived from the original on 2008-08-15. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
- ^ "Results: Women's Points Race". Beijing 2008 Olympic Games official website. August 18, 2008. Archived from the original on August 21, 2008.