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
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 23 participants competing in the final, which was held on September 20, 2000.

The men'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 160 lap (40 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 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, Milton Wynants
Milton Wynants
Milton Ariel Wynants Vázquez is a racing cyclist from Uruguay, who was affiliated with the Veloz Club Sanducero.Wynants competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country...

,
Aleksei Markov,

Results

Rank Name Nation Sprint
Points
Extra
Laps
1 Juan Llaneras 14 2
2 Milton Wynants
Milton Wynants
Milton Ariel Wynants Vázquez is a racing cyclist from Uruguay, who was affiliated with the Veloz Club Sanducero.Wynants competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country...

18 1
3 Aleksei Markov 16 1
4 Cho Ho-Sung 15 1
5 Jamie Carney 10 1
6 Franz Stocher 8 1
7 Glen Thomson
Glen Thomson
Glen Thomson is a New Zealand racing cyclist. He won a gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in the men's points race, previously at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada he won a bronze medal as part of the men's team pursuit riding alongside Brendon Cameron, Julian Dean and Lee...

6 1
8 Silvio Martinello
Silvio Martinello
Silvio Martinello is a retired road bicycle and track cyclist from Italy. He won the gold medal in the men's points race at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, followed by the bronze medal in the men's madison in Sydney, Australia alongside Marco Villa. He was a professional rider from...

5 1
9 Brian Walton
Brian Walton (cyclist)
Brian Clifford Walton is a cycling coach and former Canadian professional road and track cyclist. His racing career spanned 18 years, racing professionally for North American pro teams 7-Eleven, Motorola, and Saturn. He represented Canada at the Pan American Games, Commonwealth Games, and the...

1 1
10 Stuart O'Grady
Stuart O'Grady
Stuart O'Grady OAM , nicknamed Stuey, is an Australian professional road bicycle racer on UCI ProTeam , who started as a track cyclist. He and Graeme Brown won a gold medal in Men's Madison at the 2004 Summer Olympics...

26 0
11 Wong Kam Po 14 0
12 Bruno Risi
Bruno Risi
Bruno Risi is a Swiss professional racing cyclist.He is the ninth Swiss sportsperson to compete at five Olympics , after middle-distance runner Paul Martin, equestrians Henri Chammartin and Gustav Fischer, javelin thrower Urs von Wartburg, equestrian Christine Stückelberger, and Alpine skier Paul...

13 0
13 Jonny Clay 10 0
14 Juan Curuchet
Juan Curuchet
Juan Esteban Curuchet is a road bicycle racer and track cyclist from Argentina.Curuchet represented Argentina at the Summer Olympics in 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008....

8 0
15 Matthew Gilmore
Matthew Gilmore
Matthew Gilmore is an Belgian-Australian retired track cyclist, who mostly competed and was most successful on track for Belgium. Although Gilmore was born in and represented Belgium, he is the son of Australian racing cyclist Graeme Gilmore and competed with an Australian licence earlier in his...

6 0
16 Makoto Iijima 6 0
17 Vasyl Yakovlev 5 0
18 Wilco Zuijderwijk 3 0
19 Christophe Capelle 2 0
20 Sergey Lavrenenko 1 0
21 Marlon Pérez 0 0
22 Jimmi Madsen 0 0
23 Thorsten Rund 0 0
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