Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's road race
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The women's road race was one of the cycling events at the 2000 Summer Olympics
. The race was held on Tuesday, September 26, 2000 with a race distance of 119.7 km. Because the top three were so close there was a photo finish
.
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...
. The race was held on Tuesday, September 26, 2000 with a race distance of 119.7 km. Because the top three were so close there was a photo finish
Photo finish
A photo finish occurs in a sporting race, when two competitors cross the finishing line at near the same time. As the naked eye may not be able to discriminate between which of the competitors crossed the line first, a strip photo, a series of rapidly triggered photographs, or a video taken at the...
.
Medallists
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| Leontien Zijlaard, | Hanka Kupfernagel Hanka Kupfernagel Hanka Kupfernagel is a German professional cycle racer. Currently her primary focus is cyclocross racing, however, she has won major road, track and mountain bike races... , |
Diana Žiliūtė Diana Žiliute Diana Žiliūtė is a Lithuanian racing cyclist who dominated the sport in the late 1990s, and continues to be a formidable force in road cycling to this day.... , |
Results
Final classification| RANK | 1 | Leontien Zijlaard | 3:06:31 | |
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| 2 | Hanka Kupfernagel Hanka Kupfernagel Hanka Kupfernagel is a German professional cycle racer. Currently her primary focus is cyclocross racing, however, she has won major road, track and mountain bike races... |
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| 3 | Diana Žiliūtė Diana Žiliute Diana Žiliūtė is a Lithuanian racing cyclist who dominated the sport in the late 1990s, and continues to be a formidable force in road cycling to this day.... |
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| 4 | Anna Willson Anna Millward Anna Millward, née Wilson, is an Australian female cycle racer. She holds an LLB/BSc degree from Monash University . During her cycling career, she won the overall UCI points title in 2001, and twice was UCI overall World Cup points champion, winning a total of 5 World Cup races in her career... |
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| 5 | Svetlana Bubnenkova Svetlana Bubnenkova Svetlana Yuryevna Bubnenkova is a female racing cyclist from Russia. She represented her native country at three Summer Olympics: 1996, 2000 and 2004. Her biggest achievement was winning the 2002 Giro d'Italia Femminile... |
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| 6 | Magali le Floc'h | — | ||
| 7 | Zoulfia Zabirova | — | ||
| 8 | Heide van de Vijver | — | ||
| 9 | Yvonne Schnorf | — | ||
| 10 | Sara Symington Sara Symington Sara Symington is an English professional cyclist, she was a member of the triathlon national team prior to becoming a full-time cyclist. She represented Great Britain at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. Symington was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, she now lives in Aylestone,... |
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| 11 | Genevieve Jeanson Geneviève Jeanson Geneviève Jeanson is a former professional bicycle racer from Quebec, Canada. She won the world junior road and time trial championships in 1999 and the Tour de Snowy in 2000. Later that year she won La Flèche Wallonne World Cup race. She joined the Canadian Olympic team that year... |
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| 12 | Mirjam Melchers Mirjam Melchers Maria Wilhelmina Johanna 'Mirjam' Melchers-Van Poppel is a female racing cyclist from the Netherlands, married to former sprinter Jean-Paul van Poppel. She is one of the leading cyclists in the world, having held the UCI number one ranking as well as winning highly-rated races... |
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| 13 | Rasa Polikeviciute Rasa Polikeviciute Rasa Polikevičiūtė is a Lithuanian cycle racer. She was one of the first in a long line of Lithuanian cyclists who, together, established Lithuania as one of the powerhouses of women's cycle racing in the 1990s and beyond... |
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| 14 | Joane Somarriba Arrola | — | ||
| 15 | Alessandra Cappellotto Alessandra Cappellotto Alessandra Cappellotto is a retired female racing cyclist from Italy. She represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics: 1996, and 2000. She won the world title in the women's individual road race at the 1997 UCI Road World Championships in San Sebastian, Spain.-References:*... |
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| 16 | Nicole Braendli | — | ||
| 17 | Tetyana Stiajkina | — | ||
| 18 | Jacinta Coleman | — | ||
| 19 | Oksana Saprykina | — | ||
| 20 | Cindy Pieters Cindy Pieters Cindy Pieters is a professional racing cyclist.-Palmarés:1999200120022006-References:... |
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| 21 | Pia Sundstedt Pia Sundstedt Pia Ann-Katrine Sundstedt is a professional cyclist who competes in road bicycle racing and mountain bike racing as well as cross country skiing events. Sundstedt competed in the Summer Olympics for Finland... |
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| 22 | Lyne Bessette Lyne Bessette Lyne Bessette is a professional bicycle racer from Quebec, Canada. She was a member of the Canadian Olympic team in 2000 and 2004. She won the Tour de l'Aude Feminin in 1999 and 2001 and the Women's Challenge in 2001... |
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| 23 | Tracey Gaudry | — | ||
| 24 | Yvonne McGregor Yvonne McGregor Yvonne McGregor MBE is an English former professional cyclist from Wibsey. She was made an MBE for services to cycling in the new year's honours list in January 2002.-Palmarès:1994... |
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| 25 | Edita Pucinskaite Edita Pucinskaite Edita Pučinskaitė is a Lithuanian racing cyclist. For many years, she has been one of the top competitors in women's racing on the international level with a victory in the World Road Race Championships in 1999 and several very high finishes in major tours, World Championship competition and on... |
+ 0:06 | ||
| 26 | Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli | — | ||
| 27 | Ceris Gilfillan | — | ||
| 28 | Juanita Feldhahn | — | ||
| 29 | Monica Valen | + 1:31 | ||
| 30 | Petra Rossner | + 2:46 | ||
| 31 | Valeria Cappellotto Valeria Cappellotto Valeria Cappellotto is a retired female racing cyclist from Italy. She represented her native country at two Summer Olympics: 1992 and 2000.-References:*... |
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| 32 | Priska Doppmann Priska Doppmann Priska Doppmann is a Swiss road racing cyclist, born in Cham. She finished 7th in the Women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Currently, she is a manager for the women's team .-Palmarès:1999... |
+ 3:46 | ||
| 33 | Valentyna Karpenko | + 4:02 | ||
| 34 | Fatima Blazquez Lozano | — | ||
| 35 | Ingunn Bollerud | — | ||
| 36 | Roz Reekie-May | + 4:03 | ||
| 37 | Chantal Beltman Chantal Beltman Chantal Beltman is a Dutch professional cyclist. She is part of the 2008 Team High Road Women team. In 2007 this was called the T-Mobile Women cycling team. In 2006, Beltman raced for Vrienden van het Platteland team... |
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| 38 | Solrun Flataas | + 4:33 | ||
| 39 | Catherine Marsal Catherine Marsal Catherine Marsal is a retired female racing cyclist from France. She has been World Champion four times and raced professionally in Italy and the US. At the age of 17 she was selected for the French Olympic Team for the first time. Since then she represented her native country at four Summer... |
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| 40 | Vanja Vonckx | + 6:09 | ||
| 41 | Miho Oki | — | ||
| 42 | Olga Slioussareva | + 6:56 | ||
| 43 | Clara Hughes Clara Hughes Clara Hughes, OC, OM is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater, and has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports. Hughes won two bronze in the Summer Olympics in 1996 and four medals over the course of three Winter Olympics... |
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| 44 | Claudia Saintagne | + 17:48 | ||
| 45 | Chen Chiung-Yi | + 21:29 | ||
| 46 | Dania Perez | + 21:57 | ||
| 47 | Nicole Freedman Nicole Freedman Nicole Freedman is an American Olympic cyclist.Freedman, who is Jewish, was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She attended MIT, and then Stanford University. Among the teams she has competed on are Shaklee , Charles Schwab , Credit Suisse First Boston , RONA , and Basis .In 1997, she was a US... |
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| 48 | Mercedes Cagigas Amed | + 21:58 | ||
| 49 | Janildas Silva | + 28:41 | ||
| Yoanka Gonzalez Yoanka González Yoanka González Pérez is a Cuban racing cyclist. She was the 2004 scratch cycling world champion. She is also the wife of cyclist Pedro Pablo Pérez.-References:... |
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| Ina-Yoko Teutenberg Ina-Yoko Teutenberg Ina-Yoko Teutenberg is an elite road bicycle racer from Düsseldorf, Germany who turned professional in 2001. Teutenberg rides for the Team Columbia-HTC Women professional cycling team on the UCI Women's Road World Cup and other professional races... |
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| Dierdre Murphy | DNF | |||
| Roberta Bonanomi Roberta Bonanomi Roberta Bonanomi is a retired female racing cyclist from Italy. She represented her native country at five Summer Olympics: 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000... |
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| Susy Pryde Susy Pryde Susannah Kate Pryde is a New Zealand cyclist, who won a silver medal for New Zealand at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in the women's road race. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she again won a silver medal in the cross country discipline.-References:... |
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| Bianca Jane Netzler | DNF | |||
| Mari Holden Mari Holden Mari Kim Holden is an American cycle racer. She won the world time trial championship in 2000 after winning a silver medal in the Olympic Games time trial in Sydney, Australia. She also won six U.S. championships, becoming the first American woman to win three consecutive U.S... |
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| Karen Kurreck Karen Kurreck Karen Brems Kurreck is a retired female racing cyclist from the United States. She is best known for winning the inaugural women's individual time trial at the 1994 UCI Road World Championships in Catania, Italy. Kurreck represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney,... |
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