The women's keirin at the 2011 Dutch National Track Championships in Apeldoorn took place at Omnisport Apeldoorn on December 29, 2011. 13 athletes participated in the contest.

Willy Kanis won the gold medal, Yvonne Hijgenaar took silver and Shanne Braspennincx won the bronze.

Competition format The Keirin races involved 5.5 laps of the track behind a motorcycle, followed by a 2.5 lap sprint to the finish. The tournament consisted of a semi-finals round, repechages and the finals. The top two cyclists in each semi-final advanced to the final, with the rest of the cyclists competing again in the repechage. Two of those cyclists advanced from the two repechage to the final as well, for a total of 6 finalists. The other riders competed in the 7th to 13th place classification race.

Results

Semi-finals

Semi-final 1 Rank NameNote 1 Yvonne Hijgenaar Q 2 Shanne Braspennincx Q 3 Birgitta Roos 4 Nathaly van Wesdonk 5 Yesna Rijkhoff 6 Nina Kessler 7 Nathalie van Gogh

Semi-final 2 Rank Name Note 1 Anneloes Stoelwinder Q 2 Willy Kanis Q 3 Kirsten Wild 4 Marie-Louise Konkelaar 5 Winanda Spoor 6 Aafke Eshuis

Repaches

Heat 1 Rank NameNote 1 Nina Kessler Q 2 Winanda Spoor 3 Aafke Eshuis 4 Nathalie van Gogh Birgitta Roos DQ

Heat 2 Rank Name Note 1 Kirsten Wild Q 2 Yesna Rijkhoff 3 Nathaly van Wesdonk 4 Marie-Louise Konkelaar

Finals 7th - 13th Rank Name 7 Aafke Eshuis 8 Nathalie van Gogh 9 Winanda Spoor 10 Yesna Rijkhoff 11 Birgitta Roos 12 Nathaly van Wesdonk 13 Marie-Louise Konkelaar

Gold medal match Rank Name Willy Kanis Yvonne Hijgenaar Shanne Braspennincx 4 Kirsten Wild 5 Nina Kessler 6 Anneloes Stoelwinder

Final results Rank Name Willy Kanis Yvonne Hijgenaar Shanne Braspennincx 4 Kirsten Wild 5 Nina Kessler 6 Anneloes Stoelwinder 7 Aafke Eshuis 8 Nathalie van Gogh 9 Winanda Spoor 10 Yesna Rijkhoff 11 Birgitta Roos 12 Nathaly van Wesdonk 13 Marie-Louise Konkelaar Results from uci.ch and nkbaanwielrennen.nl.

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