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Cycling At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's Points Race
The women's points race at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 18 at the Laoshan Velodrome in Beijing, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and .... 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, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laoshan Velodrome
The Laoshan Velodrome () is a velodrome that is located in Laoshan, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China. It was built for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The venue was tested during the UCI Track World Cup in December 2007. The velodrome hosted Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics, track cycling disciplines during the Olympics. It has a capacity of 6,000 spectators, a 250-metre oval shaped track, and a total land surface of 32,920 square metres. The Laoshan Velodrome will be used for international and national cycling competitions and training after the Olympic Games. The seating capacity may be reduced to 3,500. The velodrome was designed by Schuermann Architects, designers of the ADT Event Center in Carson, CA and the UCI Cycling Center in Aigle, Switzerland. References External l ...
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Olga Slyusareva
Olga Anatolyevna Slyusareva (russian: Ольга Анатольевна Слюсарева) (born 28 April 1969 in Chervonyi Donets, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian professional racing cyclist. She won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in the points race, bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in the points race, and at the 2004 Olympic Games in the road race. Since 2019, she is the Mayor of Tula, a city about 193km (120mi) South of Moscow. Career highlights ;1995 :2nd, World Championship, Track, Sprint, Elite, Bogotá ;1998 :1st, European Championship, Track Omnium :3rd, World Championship, Track, Points race, Elite, Bordeaux :2nd, World Cup, Track, Points race, Victoria, British Columbia ;1999 :1st, European Championship, Track Omnium :3rd, National Championship, Road, Elite, Russia :3rd, World Cup, Track, Points race, Mexico City :1st, World Cup, Track, Points race, Frisco, Texas ;2000 :3rd, Olympic Summer Games, Track, Points race, Sydney :3rd, World Championship, Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satomi Wadami
is a Japanese amateur road and track cyclist. She won three bronze medals in women's road time trial, individual pursuit, and points race at the Asian Championships (2006 and 2007), and later represented Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Wadami qualified for the Japanese squad in the women's points race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by claiming a gold medal and receiving a berth from the UCI "B" World Championships in Cape Town, South Africa. Wadami did not finish the grueling 25-km Olympic sprint race in a field of twenty-two cyclists, after she suddenly crashed and fell off the track, leaving her distraught and injured. Career highlights ;2006 : Asian Championships (ITT), Kuala Lumpur (MAS) : 2nd Overall, Tour de Okinawa, Japan : 3rd Japanese Championships (Road), Japan ;2007 : UCI B World Championships (Points race), Cape Town (RSA) : UCI B World Championships (Scratch), Cape Town (RSA) : UCI B World Championships (Pursuit), Cape Town (RSA) : UCI B World Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Hammer
Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch and prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pious woman, renowned for her hospitality and beauty, the wife and half-sister of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac. Sarah has her feast day on 1 September in the Catholic Church, 19 August in the Coptic Orthodox Church, 20 January in the LCMS, and 12 and 20 December in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In the Hebrew Bible Family According to Book of Genesis 20:12, in conversation with the Philistine king Abimelech of Gerar, Abraham reveals Sarah to be both his wife and his half-sister, stating that the two share a father but not a mother. Such unions were later explicitly banned in the Book of Leviticus (). This would make Sarah the daughter of Terah and the half-sister of not only Abraham but Haran and Nahor. She would also have bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trine Schmidt
Trine Schmidt Hansen (born 3 June 1988) is a Danish professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Major results ;2003 : National Track Championships ::3rd Points race ::3rd Sprint ;2004 : 1st Scratch, National Track Championships ;2005 : 2nd Individual pursuit, National Track Championships ;2006 : 1st Team time trial, National Road Championships (with Mie Lacota and Anette Berg) : National Track Championships ::2nd, Individual pursuit ::3rd, Scratch ::3rd, Sprint ;2007 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships : National Track Championships ::1st Individual pursuit ::1st Scratch ::3rd Sprint : 1st Overall VDO Lady Cup : 1st Stage 4 Gracia–Orlová : 1st CH-Transport Løbet/CK Fix : 1st Sjællandsmesterskab : 1st Sorø : 1st Vejen ;2008 : 2nd Points race, UCI Track World Championships : 2nd Points race, 2007–08 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Copenhagen ;2009 :National Track Championships ::1st Individual pursuit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Cheatley
Catherine Cheatley (née Sell; born 6 April 1983 in Whanganui) is a retired New Zealand professional road and track cyclist. She won two New Zealand championship titles in both road race and individual track pursuit, and later represented her nation New Zealand at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Before her official retirement in June 2012 because of sustained bike crash-related injuries, Cheatley moved to the United States to race for the Cheerwine and pro cycling teams in the women's elite professional events on the UCI Women's World Cup, and UCI World Championships, where she earned the bronze medal for the women's points race in 2007. Racing career Amateur career Professional career Cheatley made her world championship debut at the 2007 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 1 April, where she took home the bronze medal in the women's points race, adding to the individual pursuit gold she had won at the New Zealand track championships two weeks p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn García
Evelyn Yesenia García Marroquín (born December 29, 1982) is a Salvadoran cycle racer, who specialises as an all-rounder, having won time-trials and mountain stages in the past. She has won the Vuelta a El Salvador on two occasions, the only woman to do so, in 2004 and 2007. Born in Santa Ana, García competed in the Summer Olympic Games in 2004 and 2008, both times in the road race and the track individual pursuit. She also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the road race, finishing 26th. Major results ;2002 : Central American and Caribbean Games ::3rd Individual pursuit ::3rd Scratch ::3rd Time trial ;2003 : UCI B World Championships ::2nd Individual pursuit ::2nd Time trial ;2004 : 1st Overall Vuelta a El Salvador ::1st Prologue, Stages 1, 2 & 3 ;2005 : 2nd Overall Vuelta a El Salvador ;2006 : National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::1st Time trial : 7th Overall Vuelta a El Salvador ::1st Stage 5 ;2007 : UCI B World Championships ::1st Individual pursuit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wan Yiu Wong
Jamie Wong Wan-Yiu (; born 4 November 1986) is a Hong Kong cyclist. She was second in the Asian Cycling Championships in 2007 in Thailand. A year later she won the points race at the 2007–08 Track Cycling World Cup in Copenhagen. 2010 Asian Games At the 2010 Asian Games, she won the silver medal in the points race in the cycling competition in dramatic fashion, after taking a fall early in the race and fracturing a rib. Wong had to be helped up to the podium to collect her medal and sobbed uncontrollably as she shakily stood for the national anthem, clutching her arm and her knees clearly badly bruised and grazed. Wong was taken from the velodrome in a wheelchair. Her coach Shen Jia-Kang said it was a miracle that she finished the race. The day after winning the silver medal, Wong said: "I learnt to be brave from my tough mother. She worked hard and saved money to buy me a bike after learning I was interested in cycling." After claiming her silver medal, Hong Kong's Chief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Carrara
Vera Carrara (born 6 April 1980) is an Italian professional racing cyclist. Carrara was born in Alzano Lombardo and joined the G.S. Valoti Arredamenti at the age of seven. Since then she has become a multiple world champion in the points race, but despite her track cycling success she also races on the road, winning a stage of the Holland Ladies Tour in 2006 and finishing second in the prologue of the 2008 Giro d'Italia Femminile. Palmarès ;1998 :1st Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Juniors ;2000 :3rd European Road Race Championships, U23, Kielce (POL) ;2001 :3rd European Track Championships, Omnium ;2002 :1st Pursuit, European Track Championships, U23 :3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Kopenhagen :2nd European Time Trial Championships, U23, Grassobbio (ITA) ;2003 :2nd Pursuit, Italian National Track Championships :1st Points race, 2003 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Sydney (AUS) :2nd Points race, 2003 UCI Track Cycling Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lada Kozlíková
Lada Kozlíková (born 8 October 1979) is a Czech Republic road and track racing cyclist. She won a gold medal at the 2002 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in the scratch race. She competed at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau .... References External links * 1979 births Living people People from Vyškov Czech female cyclists Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of the Czech Republic UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women) Czech track cyclists Sportspeople from the South Moravian Region {{CzechRepublic-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Pauliukaite
Svetlana () is a common Orthodox Slavic feminine given name, deriving from the East and South Slavic root ''svet'' (), meaning "light", "shining", "luminescent", "pure", "blessed", or "holy", depending upon context similar if not the same as the word Shweta in Sanskrit. Particularly unique among similar common Russian names, this one is not of ancient Slavic origin, but was coined by Alexander Vostokov in 1802 and popularized by Vasily Zhukovsky in his eponymous ballad "Svetlana", the latter first published in 1813. The name is also used in Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia, Macedonia, and Serbia, with a number of occurrences in non-Slavic countries. In the Russian Orthodox Church ''Svetlana'' is used as a Russian translation of ''Photina'' (derived from ''phos'' ( el, φως, "light")), a name sometimes ascribed to the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well (the Bible, John 4). Semantically similar names to this are ''Lucia'' (of Latin origin, meaning "light"), '' Claire' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
