Points race at the Olympics

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.

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)

Medalists

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1900 Paris	Enrico Brusoni  Italy	Karl Duill  Germany	Louis Trousselier  France
1984 Los Angeles	Roger Ilegems  Belgium	Uwe Messerschmidt  West Germany	José Youshimatz  Mexico
1988 Seoul	Dan Frost  Denmark	Leo Peelen  Netherlands	Marat Ganeyev  Soviet Union
1992 Barcelona	Giovanni Lombardi  Italy	Léon van Bon  Netherlands	Cédric Mathy  Belgium
1996 Atlanta	Silvio Martinello  Italy	Brian Walton  Canada	Stuart O'Grady  Australia
2000 Sydney	Joan Llaneras  Spain	Milton Wynants  Uruguay	Aleksei Markov  Russia
2004 Athens	Mikhail Ignatiev  Russia	Joan Llaneras  Spain	Guido Fulst  Germany
2008 Beijing	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
	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	Nathalie Lancien  France	Ingrid Haringa  Netherlands	Lucy Tyler-Sharman  Australia
2000 Sydney	Antonella Bellutti  Italy	Leontien Zijlaard  Netherlands	Olga Slyusareva  Russia
2004 Athens	Olga Slyusareva  Russia	Belem Guerrero  Mexico	María Luisa Calle  Colombia
2008 Beijing	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
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
5	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	0	1
	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

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