2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's keirin

Rainbow jersey

The Women's keirin at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on April 7. 22 athletes participated in the contest. After the 4 qualifying heats, the 2 fastest rider in each heat advanced to the second round. The riders that did not advance to the second round raced in 4 repechage heats. The first rider in each heat advanced to the second round along with the 8 that qualified before.

The first 3 riders from each of the 2 Second Round heats advanced to the Final and the remaining riders raced a consolation 7–12 final. ^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Anna Meares  (AUS)
Silver	Ekaterina Gnidenko  (RUS)
Bronze	Kristina Vogel  (GER)

Results

First round

The first round was held at 14:15. ^[2]

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Anna Meares	Australia	Q
2	Kristina Vogel	Germany	Q
3	Lee Wai Sze	Hong Kong
4	Natasha Hansen	New Zealand
5	Willy Kanis	Netherlands

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Clara Sanchez	France	Q
2	Kaarle McCulloch	Australia	Q
3	Victoria Pendleton	Great Britain
4	Miriam Welte	Germany
5	Viktoria Baranova	Russia

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Guo Shuang	China	Q
2	Sandie Clair	France	Q
3	Simona Krupeckaitė	Lithuania
4	Monique Sullivan	Canada
5	Katie Schofield	New Zealand
6	Olena Tsyos	Ukraine

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Di Mu	China	Q
2	Fatehah Mustapa	Malaysia	Q
3	Lisandra Guerra	Cuba
4	Ekaterina Gnidenko	Russia
5	Daniela Larreal	Venezuela
6	Maryia Lohvinava	Belarus

First Round Repechage

The first round repechage was held at 15:40. ^[3]

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Ekaterina Gnidenko	Russia	Q
2	Lee Wai Sze	Hong Kong
3	Katie Schofield	New Zealand

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Victoria Pendleton	Great Britain	Q
2	Monique Sullivan	Canada
3	Viktoria Baranova	Russia

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Simona Krupeckaitė	Lithuania	Q
2	Willy Kanis	Netherlands
3	Miriam Welte	Germany
4	Maryia Lohvinava	Belarus

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Olena Tsyos	Ukraine	Q
2	Lisandra Guerra	Cuba
3	Natasha Hansen	New Zealand
4	Daniela Larreal	Venezuela

Second round

The second round was held at 19:30. ^[4]

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Anna Meares	Australia	Q
2	Di Mu	China	Q
3	Ekaterina Gnidenko	Russia	Q
4	Kaarle McCulloch	Australia
5	Sandie Clair	France
6	Olena Tsyos	Ukraine

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
1	Clara Sanchez	France	Q
2	Guo Shuang	China	Q
3	Kristina Vogel	Germany	Q
4	Fatehah Mustapa	Malaysia
5	Simona Krupeckaitė	Lithuania
6	Victoria Pendleton	United Kingdom

Finals

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

Small Final

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
7	Sandie Clair	France
8	Simona Krupeckaitė	Lithuania
9	Kaarle McCulloch	Australia
10	Olena Tsyos	Ukraine
11	Fatehah Mustapa	Malaysia
12	Victoria Pendleton	United Kingdom

Final

Rank	Name	Nation	Notes
	Anna Meares	Australia
	Ekaterina Gnidenko	Russia
	Kristina Vogel	Germany
4	Guo Shuang	China
5	Clara Sanchez	France
6	Di Mu	China

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 ]}