Points race at the Olympics

Olympic sport

Points race at the Olympic Games
Track cycling
Overview
Sport	Cycling
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1900, 1984–2008 Women: 1996–2008
Reigning champion
Men	Joan Llaneras (ESP)
Women	Marianne Vos (NED)

The points race was a track cycling event held 8 times for men and 4 times for women at the Summer Olympics. The event was first held for men at the second modern Olympics in 1900. It was not held again until 1984; it was then held every Summer Olympics from then until 2008, after which it was removed from the programme. A women's version was introduced in 1996 and also lasted until 2008.

The points race was replaced with the Omnium, which includes a points race as one of its multiple components, in 2012.

Medalists

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1900 Paris details	Enrico Brusoni Italy	Karl Duill Germany	Louis Trousselier France
1984 Los Angeles details	Roger Ilegems Belgium	Uwe Messerschmidt West Germany	José Youshimatz Mexico
1988 Seoul details	Dan Frost Denmark	Leo Peelen Netherlands	Marat Ganeyev Soviet Union
1992 Barcelona details	Giovanni Lombardi Italy	Léon van Bon Netherlands	Cédric Mathy Belgium
1996 Atlanta details	Silvio Martinello Italy	Brian Walton Canada	Stuart O'Grady Australia
2000 Sydney details	Joan Llaneras Spain	Milton Wynants Uruguay	Aleksei Markov Russia
2004 Athens details	Mikhail Ignatiev Russia	Joan Llaneras Spain	Guido Fulst Germany
2008 Beijing details	Joan Llaneras Spain	Roger Kluge Germany	Chris Newton Great Britain

Multiple medalists

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Joan Llaneras	Spain (ESP)	2000–2008	2	1	0	3

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	3	0	0	3
2	Spain (ESP)	2	1	0	3
3	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	1	2
3	Russia (RUS)	1	0	1	2
5	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
6	Germany (GER)	0	2	1	3
7	Netherlands (NED)	0	2	0	2
8	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	0	1
	Uruguay (URU)	0	1	0	1
11	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	1	1

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1996 Atlanta details	Nathalie Lancien France	Ingrid Haringa Netherlands	Lucy Tyler-Sharman Australia
2000 Sydney details	Antonella Bellutti Italy	Leontien Zijlaard Netherlands	Olga Slyusareva Russia
2004 Athens details	Olga Slyusareva Russia	Belem Guerrero Mexico	María Luisa Calle Colombia
2008 Beijing details	Marianne Vos Netherlands	Yoanka González Cuba	Leire Olaberria Spain

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)	1	2	0	3
2	Russia (RUS)	1	0	1	2
3	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
3	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
5	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	0	1
5	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
7	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Colombia (COL)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1

References

v t e Olympic Cycling Champions in Men's Point Race
Summary
1900: Enrico Brusoni (ITA) 1984: Roger Ilegems (BEL) 1988: Dan Frost (DEN) 1992: Giovanni Lombardi (ITA) 1996: Silvio Martinello (ITA) 2000: Joan Llaneras (ESP) 2004: Mikhail Ignatiev (RUS) 2008: Joan Llaneras (ESP)

v t e Olympic Cycling Champions in Women's Points Race
Summary
1996: Nathalie Lancien (FRA) 2000: Antonella Bellutti (ITA) 2004: Olga Slyusareva (RUS) 2008: Marianne Vos (NED)

Cycling at the Summer Olympics

Editions

Events

Track	Keirin Madison Omnium Individual sprint Team sprint Team pursuit
Road	Road race Time trial
Mountain bike	Cross-country
BMX	Individual Freestyle
Defunct	Individual pursuit Points race Track time trial Tandem 1⁄4 mile 1⁄3 mile 1⁄2 mile 1 mile 2 miles 5 miles 25 miles 660 yards 5 kilometres 10 kilometres 20 kilometres 25 kilometres 50 kilometres 100 kilometres 12 hours

Cyclists

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Netherlands
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Olympic track cycling events