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Men's Keirin
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
VenueLaoshan Velodrome
DatesAugust 16
Competitors25 from 17 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Chris Hoy  Great Britain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ross Edgar  Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kiyofumi Nagai  Japan
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The men's Keirin at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 16 at the Laoshan Velodrome.

This track cycling event consisted of multiple rounds. In each race, the four to seven cyclists in the heat covered 8 laps of the track. The first 5.5 laps were behind a motorized pacer called a derny, which gradually increased speed up to 50 kilometres per hour. The derny then left the track and the cyclists then raced the final 2.5 laps to the finish.

In the first round, four heats were held. The top two cyclists in each heat advanced to the semifinals, with the rest of the cyclists competing again in the repechage. Four of those cyclists advanced from the repechage to the semifinals as well, for a total of 12 semifinalists. They raced again in two semifinals heats. The top three cyclists in each semifinal advanced to the final, while the bottom three competed in the 7th to 12th place classification race.

Qualification

Twenty-five cyclists competed in the Keirin. Chris Hoy (Great Britain) qualified directly by winning the Keirin at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He also won the event at the late 2007 World Cup event in Sydney, affording another position to qualifiers based on Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) rankings.

Results

REL=Relegated, DNF=Did not finish, DNS=Did not start

Preliminaries

Heat 1

Rank Rider Country
1 Chris Hoy  Great Britain
2 Carsten Bergemann  Germany
3 Toshiaki Fushimi  Japan
4 Grégory Baugé  France
5 Kamil Kuczyński  Poland
6 Denis Dmitriev  Russia

Heat 2

Rank Rider Country
1 Azizulhasni Awang  Malaysia
2 Shane Kelly  Australia
3 Teun Mulder  Netherlands
4 Andrii Vynokurov  Ukraine
5 Sergey Polynskiy  Russia
6 Feng Yong  China

Heat 3

Rank Rider Country
1 Ross Edgar  Great Britain
2 Josiah Ng  Malaysia
3 Kiyofumi Nagai  Japan
4 Denis Špička  Czech Republic
5 Christos Volikakis  Greece
REL Roberto Chiappa  Italy

Heat 4

Rank Rider Country
1 Ryan Bayley  Australia
2 Theo Bos  Netherlands
3 Giddeon Massie  United States
4 Arnaud Tournant  France
5 Athanasios Mantzouranis  Greece
6 Ricardo Lynch  Jamaica
7 Maximilian Levy  Germany

Repechage

Heat 1

Rank Rider Country
1 Arnaud Tournant  France
2 Christos Volikakis  Greece
3 Feng Yong  China
4 Toshiaki Fushimi  Japan

Heat 2

Rank Rider Country
1 Kamil Kuczyński  Poland
2 Denis Špička  Czech Republic
3 Denis Dmitriev  Russia
REL Teun Mulder  Netherlands

Heat 3

Rank Rider Country
1 Kiyofumi Nagai  Japan
2 Andrii Vynokurov  Ukraine
3 Ricardo Lynch  Jamaica
4 Sergey Polynskiy  Russia

Heat 4

Rank Rider Country
1 Grégory Baugé  France
2 Maximilian Levy  Germany
3 Athanasios Mantzouranis  Greece
4 Giddeon Massie  United States
5 Roberto Chiappa  Italy

Semifinals

Heat 1

Rank Rider Country
1 Chris Hoy  Great Britain
2 Shane Kelly  Australia
3 Arnaud Tournant  France
4 Josiah Ng  Malaysia
5 Grégory Baugé  France
6 Ryan Bayley  Australia

Heat 2

Rank Rider Country
1 Ross Edgar  Great Britain
2 Kiyofumi Nagai  Japan
3 Carsten Bergemann  Germany
4 Azizulhasni Awang  Malaysia
DNF Theo Bos  Netherlands
DNF Kamil Kuczyński  Poland

Finals

Classification race

Rank Rider Country
7 Grégory Baugé  France
8 Ryan Bayley  Australia
9 Josiah Ng  Malaysia
10 Azizulhasni Awang  Malaysia
11 Kamil Kuczyński  Poland
DNS Theo Bos  Netherlands

Medals race

Rank Rider Country
1 Chris Hoy  Great Britain
1 Ross Edgar  Great Britain
1 Kiyofumi Nagai  Japan
4 Shane Kelly  Australia
5 Carsten Bergemann  Germany
6 Arnaud Tournant  France

References

  1. The Keirin article itself states six to nine cyclists.
  2. "Competition Format - the Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games". Archived from the original on 2008-08-15. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
  3. Relegated means being disciplined for an infringement by being placed last while not being disqualified from the tournament. (rules)
  4. "Cycling - Track Men's Keirin Results - the official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games". results.beijing2008.cn. Archived from the original on 19 August 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  5. "Cycling - Track Men's Keirin Results - the official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games". results.beijing2008.cn. Archived from the original on 1 September 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  6. "Cycling - Track Men's Keirin Results - the official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games". results.beijing2008.cn. Archived from the original on 20 August 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  7. "Cycling - Track Men's Keirin Results - the official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games". results.beijing2008.cn. Archived from the original on 19 August 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
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