Olympedia – Road Race, Women

Road Race, Women

Date	26 September 2000 — 10:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Cycling Road Course, Centennial Parklands, Sydney, New South Wales
Participants	57 from 23 countries
Format	119.7 km. (74.3 miles) mass start race.

Date

26 September 2000 — 10:00

Status

Olympic

Location

Cycling Road Course, Centennial Parklands, Sydney, New South Wales

Participants

57 from 23 countries

Format

119.7 km. (74.3 miles) mass start race.

Defending champion Jeannie Longo was back for her fifth Olympics. But the dead flat course did not allow her or any rider to break open the field, and it came down to a field sprint. Finishing in Sydney downpour, the winner was the Dutch rider Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel over Germany’s Hanka Kupfernagel. Zijlaard-Van Moorsel’s performance at the 2000 Olympics rivals any in cycling history. She won the road race, the individual time trial, the 3,000 metre individual pursuit on the track, and won a silver medal in the points race on the track. She won the World Championships on the roads in 1991 and 1993, and in the Time Trial in 1998-99, and was a four-time individual pursuit World Champion (1990, 2001-03). Her career occurred in two phases. After 1993, she suffered from anorexia nervosa and lost almost 20 kg. (44 lbs.). But she recovered and returned to international cycling in the late 90s to enjoy her greatest successes.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Time	Margin
1	Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel	NED	3-06:31	–	Gold
2	Hanka Kupfernagel	GER	–	at 0:00	Silver
3	Diana Žiliūtė	LTU	–	at 0:00	Bronze
4	Anna Wilson	AUS	–	at 0:00
5	Svetlana Bubnenkova	RUS	–	at 0:00
6	Magali le Floc'h	FRA	–	at 0:00
7	Zulfiya Zabirova	RUS	–	at 0:00
8	Heidi Van De Vijver	BEL	–	at 0:00
9	Yvonne Schnorf	SUI	–	at 0:00
10	Sara Symington	GBR	–	at 0:00
11	Geneviève Jeanson	CAN	–	at 0:00
12	Mirjam Melchers-van Poppel	NED	–	at 0:00
13	Rasa Polikevičiūtė	LTU	–	at 0:00
14	Joane Somarriba	ESP	–	at 0:00
15	Alessandra Cappellotto	ITA	–	at 0:00
16	Nicole Brändli	SUI	–	at 0:00
17	Tetiana Stiazhkina	UKR	–	at 0:00
18	Jacinta Coleman	NZL	–	at 0:00
19	Oksana Saprykina	UKR	–	at 0:00
20	Cindy Pieters	BEL	–	at 0:00
21	Pia Sundstedt	FIN	–	at 0:00
22	Lyne Bessette	CAN	–	at 0:00
23	Tracey Gaudry	AUS	–	at 0:00
24	Yvonne McGregor	GBR	–	at 0:00
25	Edita Pučinskaitė	LTU	–	at 0:06
26	Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli	FRA	–	at 0:06
27	Ceris Gilfillan	GBR	–	at 0:06
28	Juanita Feldhahn	AUS	–	at 0:06
29	Monica Valen	NOR	–	at 1:31
30	Petra Roßner	GER	–	at 2:46
31	Valeria Cappellotto	ITA	–	at 2:46
32	Priska Doppmann	SUI	–	at 3:46
33	Valentyna Karpenko	UKR	–	at 4:02
34	Fátima Blázquez	ESP	–	at 4:02
35	Ingunn Bollerud	NOR	–	at 4:02
36	Roz Reekie-May	NZL	–	at 4:03
37	Chantal Beltman	NED	–	at 4:03
38	Solrun Flatås	NOR	–	at 4:33
39	Catherine Marsal	FRA	–	at 4:33
40	Vanja Vonckx	BEL	–	at 6:09
41	Miho Oki	JPN	–	at 6:09
42	Olga Slyusareva	RUS	–	at 6:56
43	Clara Hughes	CAN	–	at 10:18
44	Cláudia Saintagne	BRA	–	at 17:48
45	Chen Chiung-Yi	TPE	–	at 21:29
46	Dania Pérez	CUB	–	at 21:57
47	Nicole Freedman	USA	–	at 21:57
48	María Mercedes Cagigas	ESP	–	at 21:58
49	Janildes Fernandes	BRA	–	at 28:41
DNF	Bianca Netzler	SAM	–	–
DNF	Deirdre Murphy	IRL	–	–
DNF	Ina-Yoko Teutenberg	GER	–	–
DNF	Karen Kurreck	USA	–	–
DNF	Mari Holden	USA	–	–
DNF	Roberta Bonanomi	ITA	–	–
DNF	Susy Pryde	NZL	–	–
DNF	Yoanka González	CUB	–	–

Pos

Competitor

NOC

Time

Margin

Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel

NED