The men's Keirin at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place at the London Velopark on 7 August.
Chris Hoy from Great Britain won the gold medal.
Competition format
The Keirin races involve 6.5 laps of the track behind a pace-setter, followed by a 2.5 lap sprint to the finish. The tournament consisted of preliminary heats and repechages, a semi-finals round, and the finals. The heats and repechages narrowed the field to 12. The semi-finals divided the remaining 12 into six finalists. The final round also included a ranking race for 7th to 12th place.
Schedule All times are British Summer Time Date Time RoundTuesday 7 August 2012 10:00 & 16:35 Round 1, repechage, round 2 and final
Results
First round
Heat 1 Rank Rider Country1 Chris Hoy 2 Simon van Velthooven 3 Juan Peralta 4 Sergey Borisov 5 Njisane Phillip 6 Kazunari Watanabe
Heat 2 Rank Rider Country1 Maximilian Levy 2 Teun Mulder 3 Hersony Canelón 4 Kamil Kuczyński 5 Shane Perkins 6 Zhang Miao
Heat 3 Rank Rider Country1 Mickaël Bourgain 2 Azizulhasni Awang 3 Fabián Puerta 4 Joseph Veloce 5 Denis Špička 6 Christos Volikakis
Repechages
Heat 1 Rank Rider Country1 Christos Volikakis 2 Juan Peralta 3 Njisane Phillip 4 Joseph Veloce 5 Sergey Borisov 6 Zhang Miao
Heat 2 Rank Rider Country1 Kazunari Watanabe 2 Hersony Canelón 3 Shane Perkins 4 Kamil Kuczyński 5 Fabián Puerta 6 Denis Špička
Second round
Heat 1 Rank Rider Country1 Chris Hoy 2 Azizulhasni Awang 3 Teun Mulder 4 Njisane Phillip 5 Juan Peralta 6 Christos Volikakis
Heat 2 Rank Rider Country1 Maximilian Levy 2 Simon van Velthooven 3 Shane Perkins 4 Mickaël Bourgain 5 Hersony Canelón 6 Kazunari Watanabe
Finals
1st to 6th
Rank Rider Country Chris Hoy Maximilian Levy Simon van Velthooven Teun Mulder 5 Shane Perkins 6 Azizulhasni Awang
7th to 12th Rank Rider Country7 Njisane Phillip 8 Mickaël Bourgain 9 Christos Volikakis 10 Juan Peralta 11 Kazunari Watanabe 12 Hersony Canelón
References