# Cycling at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's points race

The men's points race, or “Course de Primes,” was a track cycling event at the 1900 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on 15 September 1900 at the Vélodrome de Vincennes. There were 13 competitors from 3 nations. The event was won by Enrico Brusoni of Italy, who won 5 of the laps including the last one. Karl Duill of Germany placed second, with Louis Trousselier of France third.

## Background

This was the first appearance of the event. It would not be held again until 1984; after that, it was held every Summer Games until 2008 when it was removed from the programme. The women's version was held from 1996 through 2008.

## Competition format

The competition was broadly similar to the modern points race, but with significant differences. The event was 5 kilometres in length, with points awarded at each lap (prime) to the first three cyclists to finish the lap: 3 to the first to finish the lap, 2 to the second, and 1 to the third. The cyclist with the most points was the victor. On the last lap, the points were tripled: 9 to the winner of the race, 6 to second place, and 3 to third place.
A single race was held, with all cyclists starting together.

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| Saturday, 15 September 1900 | | Final |

## Results

The event was held on 15 September. Ferdinand Vasserot won the first lap, but failed to gain more than 1 more point the rest of the way. Enrico Brusoni won the second and third laps to move into the lead with 6 points, with Louis Trousselier behind him on both of those laps for 4 points and second place. J. Bérard was the fourth-lap winner, moving between Brusoni and Trousselier with 5 points. Brusoni won the fifth lap to increase his lead, 9 points to Bérard's 5 and Trousselier's 4.
The sixth and seventh laps went to Karl Duill, bringing him to 7 points and second place only 2 points behind Brusoni; Trousselier picked up 2 points on the sixth to stay in third place as Bérard dropped to fourth. The top three spots would not change again after that. Brusoni re-extended his lead on the eighth lap, winning it to place him at 12 points to Duill's 7. In the ninth lap, Trousselier won with Duill behind him; this brought them both to 9 points, only 3 points behind Brusoni.
Brusoni finished strong, however, with a win on the triple-value final lap for 9 points to take the top overall score at 21 points. Neither Duill nor Trousselier was able to score on that final lap. Duill held a tie-breaker over Trousselier, taking second place. Chaput's second-place finish on the last lap brought him 1 point behind the medalists.
| Rank | Cyclist | Nation | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Total |
| | Enrico Brusoni | Italy | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 21 |
| | Karl Duill | Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| | Louis Trousselier | France | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 4 | Chaput | France | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| 5 | J. Bérard | France | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 | Adolphe Cayron | France | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | Octave Coisy | France | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | Ferdinand Vasserot | France | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | Marcel Dohis | France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Germain | France | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Giacomo Stratta | Italy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Georges Coindre | France | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Luigi Colombo | Italy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |