Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Keirin


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 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 rankings.

Results

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

Preliminaries

Heat 1
RankRiderCountry
1 Chris Hoy
2 Carsten Bergemann
3Toshiaki Fushimi
4Grégory Baugé
5Kamil Kuczyński
6Denis Dmitriev

Heat 2
RankRiderCountry
1 Azizulhasni Awang
2 Shane Kelly
3Teun Mulder
4Andrii Vynokurov
5Sergey Polynskiy
6Feng Yong

Heat 3
RankRiderCountry
1 Ross Edgar
2 Josiah Ng
3Kiyofumi Nagai
4Denis Špička
5Christos Volikakis
RELRoberto Chiappa

Heat 4
RankRiderCountry
1 Ryan Bayley
2 Theo Bos
3Giddeon Massie
4Arnaud Tournant
5Athanasios Mantzouranis
6Ricardo Lynch
7Maximilian Levy

Repechage

Heat 1
RankRiderCountry
1 Arnaud Tournant
2Christos Volikakis
3Feng Yong
4Toshiaki Fushimi

Heat 2
RankRiderCountry
1 Kamil Kuczyński
2Denis Špička
3Denis Dmitriev
RELTeun Mulder

Heat 3
RankRiderCountry
1 Kiyofumi Nagai
2Andrii Vynokurov
3Ricardo Lynch
4Sergey Polynskiy

Heat 4
RankRiderCountry
1 Grégory Baugé
2Maximilian Levy
3Athanasios Mantzouranis
4Giddeon Massie
5Roberto Chiappa

Semifinals

Heat 1
RankRiderCountry
1 Chris Hoy
2 Shane Kelly
3 Arnaud Tournant
4Josiah Ng
5Grégory Baugé
6Ryan Bayley

Heat 2
RankRiderCountry
1 Ross Edgar
2 Kiyofumi Nagai
3 Carsten Bergemann
4Azizulhasni Awang
DNFTheo Bos
DNFKamil Kuczyński

Finals

Classification race
RankRiderCountry
7Grégory Baugé
8Ryan Bayley
9Josiah Ng
10Azizulhasni Awang
11Kamil Kuczyński
DNSTheo Bos

Medals race
RankRiderCountry
Chris Hoy
Ross Edgar
Kiyofumi Nagai
4Shane Kelly
5Carsten Bergemann
6Arnaud Tournant