Olympic Women's Points Race

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Monday August 18 is the fourth day of action from the Laoshan Velodrome.

On the first day Team GB won the Team sprint gold medal, and followed this on day two with gold and sliver in the Kieran, gold and bronze in the men's individual pursuit and bronze in the points race. Day three gave up a gold and silver for Great Britain in the women's individual pursuit for Wendy Houvenaghel and Rebecca Romero. Victoria Pendleton, Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny qualified the best in the women's and men's sprint competitions respectively. Plus GB men broke the world record to make the final of the team pursuit gold.

Day four will see the conclusion of the Men's Team Pursuit, and the gold run off in the women's points race, whilst the sprint competitions progress to the finals due to be held on Tuesday (Day five) - see Track Medals

Race favourite World Champion Marianne Vos of the Netherlands was able to stamp her authority on the women's points race to claim the gold medal. Britain's Rebecca Romero played an animated role in the race and attacked a number of times and she was to finish 11th at race end.

Yoanka Gonzalez (Cuba) out sprinted the Spainard Leire Olaberria at the flag to take silver.

A crash at half distance disrupted the race and Sarah Hammer of the USA was unable retstart.

1 1 Marianne Vos NED 5 3 2 13 20 20 30
2 5 Yoanka Gonzalez CUB 5 1 2 5 5 1 18
3 4 Leire Olaberria ESP 3 2 2 3 3 2 13
4 18 Maria Calle Luisa COL 5 5 2 1 8 13
5 17 Lesya Kalitovska UKR 5 3 2 5 10
6 10 Katherine Bates AUS 1 1 5 3 18 10
7 8 Pascale Jeuland FRA 3 1 1 1 2 11 8
8 7 Olga Slyusareva RUS 3 5 17 8
9 13 Gina Grain CAN 1 3 2 3 6
10 9 Yan Li CHN 5 1 4 6
11 20 Rebecca Romero GBR 3 14 3
12 6 Svetlana Pauliukaite LTU 2 9 2
13 16 Lada Kozlikova CZE 2 16 2
14 3 Vera Carrara ITA 1 12 1
15 22 Wan Wong Yiu HKG 6 0
16 19 Evelyn Garcia ESA 7 0
17 15 Catherine Cheatley NZL 10 0
18 2 Trine Schmidt DEN 15 0
19 11 Minhye Lee KOR 19 40 -40 -40
12 Sarah Hammer USA DNF
14 Satomi Wadami JPN DNF
21 Verena Jooss GER 20 -20 DNF