World Track Championships - CM

Stuttgart, Germany, July 30 - August 3, 2003

Event program and results

Women's 24km points race

Slioussareva repeats

By Valkerie Mangnall in Stuttgart

What's the point? Winning
Photo: © Hennes Roth

Olga Slioussareva retained her points race crown, comfortably beating Lithuania's Edita Kubelskiene by 27 points to 19. The Russian grabbed points in all but three of the 12 sprints, winning the third and seventh. Yoanka Gonzalez Perez of Cuba was third with 16 points.

Photos

Images by Yuzuru Sunada/www.yuzurusunada.com

• The podium (L to R): Edita Kubelskiene (2nd), Olga Slioussareva (1st) and Yoanka Gonzalez Perez (3rd)

Images by Hennes Roth/www.roth-foto.de

• Slusareva edges in front of the bunch
• Olga Slioussareva and Edita Kubelskiene fight it out for the top placings
• Anke Wichmann of Germany
• Instead of biting her medal, Slusareva kisses it
• Kubelskiene, Slusareva and Perez on the podium

Images by AFP

• Olga Slioussareva raises her flag after her win
• The riders are all ablur as they streak past

Results

1 Olga Slioussareva (Russia)        27 pts
2 Edita Kubelskiene (Lithuania)     19
3 Yoanka Gonzalez Perez (Cuba)      16
4 Cathy Moncassin (France)          10
5 Lyudmyla Vypyraylo (Ukraine)      10
6 Belem Guerrero Mendez (Mexico)     8
7 Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Spain)    8
8 Adrie Visser (Netherlands)         7
9 Anke Wichmann (Germany)            5
10 Katherine Bates (Australia)       5
11 Erin Mirabella (USA)              4
12 Mandy Poitras (Canada)            3
13 Evelyn Garcia (El Salvador)       3
14 Yang Limei (China)                3
15 Vera Carrara (Italy)              3
16 Ine Wannijn (Belgium)             0
17 Lada Kozlikova (Czech Republic)   0
 
One lap behind
 
18 Tatsiana Sharakova (Bielorussia)  1
19 Katarzyna Jagusiak (Poland)       0
DNS Sarah Ulmer (New Zealand)