2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's keirin

Rainbow jersey

The men's keirin at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 8 April. 33 athletes participated in the contest. After the six qualifying heats, the fastest rider in each heat advanced to the second round. The riders that did not advance to the second round, raced in six repechage heats. The first rider in each heat advanced to the second round along with the eight that qualified before.

The first three riders from each of the two second round heats advanced to the final and the remaining riders raced a consolation 7–12 final. ^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Chris Hoy  (GBR)
Silver	Maximilian Levy  (GER)
Bronze	Jason Kenny  (GBR)

Results

First round

The heats were held at 14:30. ^[2]

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Yudai Nitta	Japan	Q
2	Josiah Ng	Malaysia
3	Zhang Miao	China
4	Shane Perkins	Australia
5	Sergey Borisov	Russia

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Chris Hoy	Great Britain	Q
2	Hersony Canelón	Venezuela
3	Joachim Eilers	Germany
4	Francesco Ceci	Italy
5	Kamil Kuczyński	Poland

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Hodei Mazquiaran Uria	Spain	Q
2	Simon Van Velthooven	New Zealand
3	Teun Mulder	Netherlands
4	Maximilian Levy	Germany
5	Denis Špička	Czech Republic

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Azizulhasni Awang	Malaysia	Q
2	Matthew Crampton	Great Britain
3	Alexander Quincy	Trinidad and Tobago
4	Juan Peralta Gascon	Spain
5	Fabián Puerta	Colombia
–	Matthew Glaetzer	Australia	DNF

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Kazunari Watanabe	Japan	Q
2	Jason Kenny	Great Britain
3	Christos Volikakis	Greece
4	Mickaël Bourgain	France
5	Edward Dawkins	New Zealand
6	Andriy Vynokurov	Ukraine

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Scott Sunderland	Australia	Q
2	François Pervis	France
3	Matthew Archibald	New Zealand
4	Jonathan Marín	Colombia
5	Muhammad Md Yunos	Malaysia
6	Hugo Haak	Netherlands

First round repechage

The heats were held at 16:05. ^[3]

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Mickaël Bourgain	France	Q
2	Fabián Puerta	Colombia
3	Josiah Ng	Malaysia
4	Matthew Archibald	New Zealand

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Hersony Canelón	Venezuela	Q
2	Christos Volikakis	Greece
3	Denis Špička	Czech Republic
4	Juan Peralta Gascon	Spain

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Simon Van Velthooven	New Zealand	Q
2	Jonathan Marín	Colombia
3	Kamil Kuczyński	Poland
4	Alexander Quincy	Trinidad and Tobago

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Matthew Crampton	Great Britain	Q
2	Francesco Ceci	Italy
3	Teun Mulder	Netherlands
4	Andriy Vynokurov	Ukraine
5	Sergey Borisov	Russia

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Jason Kenny	Great Britain	Q
2	Matthew Glaetzer	Australia
3	Shane Perkins	Australia
4	Joachim Eilers	Germany
5	Muhammad Md Yunos	Malaysia

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Maximilian Levy	Germany	Q
2	Edward Dawkins	New Zealand
3	François Pervis	France
4	Zhang Miao	China
5	Hugo Haak	Netherlands

Second round

The heats were held at 19:15. ^[4]

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Maximilian Levy	Germany	Q
2	Kazunari Watanabe	Japan	Q
3	Simon Van Velthooven	New Zealand	Q
4	Yudai Nitta	Japan
5	Azizulhasni Awang	Malaysia
6	Hersony Canelón	Venezuela

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Chris Hoy	Great Britain	Q
2	Mickaël Bourgain	France	Q
3	Jason Kenny	Great Britain	Q
4	Scott Sunderland	Australia
5	Matthew Crampton	Great Britain
6	Hodei Mazquiaran Uria	Spain

Finals

The finals were held at 20:45. ^[5]

Small final

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
7	Scott Sunderland	Australia
8	Hersony Canelón	Venezuela
9	Azizulhasni Awang	Malaysia
10	Matthew Crampton	Great Britain
11	Hodei Mazquiaran Uria	Spain
12	Yudai Nitta	Japan

Final

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
	Chris Hoy	Great Britain
	Maximilian Levy	Germany
	Jason Kenny	Great Britain
4	Mickaël Bourgain	France
5	Kazunari Watanabe	Japan
–	Simon Van Velthooven	New Zealand	REL

References

1. Start list ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
2. First round results ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
3. First round repechage results ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
4. Second round results
5. Final results ^{[ permanent dead link ]}