Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's points race


The men's points race at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 16 at the Laoshan Velodrome.
This track cycling event consisted of a single race in which the cyclist with the most points at the end of the race won. This race was a 40 kilometre, 160 lap race. During the race, cyclists could score points in two ways; The first way to score points is to lap the group. Each time a cyclist gained a full lap on the peloton, he scored 20 points. If a cyclist lost a full lap to the peloton, however, he lost 20 points. The other method of scoring points was to place in the intermediate sprints occurring every 10 laps. The first four cyclists in each of the sprints scored points with the first finisher receiving 5 points, the second 3, the third 2, and the fourth 1 point.
Among the medal favorites were Joan Llaneras, Vasil Kiryienka, and the defending Olympic champion Mikhail Ignatiev.

Results

RankNameCountrySprint
Points		Extra
Laps		Total
Points
Joan Llaneras20260
Roger Kluge18258
Chris Newton16256
4Cameron Meyer16136
5Vasil Kiryienka14134
6Daniel Kreutzfeldt9129
7Zachary Bell7127
8Makoto Iijima3123
9Milan Kadlec120
10Greg Henderson1313
11Rafał Ratajczyk1010
12Iljo Keisse88
13Angelo Ciccone88
14Volodymyr Rybin88
15Wong Kam Po55
16Milton Wynants55
17Mikhail Ignatiev44
18Juan Curuchet11
19Marco Arriagada11
20Peter Schep0
21Christophe Riblon3-1-17
22Bobby Lea+1, -2-20, DNF
23Feng Chun-Kai-1-20, DNF