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 sevenThe Keirin article itself states six to nine cyclists. 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 . The derny then left the track and the cyclists then raced the final 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,Relegated means being disciplined for an infringement by being placed last while not being disqualified from the tournament. (rules) DNF=Did not finish, DNS=Did not start
Preliminaries
Heat 1 Rank Rider Country1 Chris Hoy 2 Carsten Bergemann 3 Toshiaki Fushimi 4 Grégory Baugé 5 Kamil Kuczyński 6 Denis Dmitriev
Heat 2 Rank Rider Country1 Azizulhasni Awang 2 Shane Kelly 3 Teun Mulder 4 Andrii Vynokurov 5 Sergey Polynskiy 6 Feng Yong
Heat 3 Rank Rider Country1 Ross Edgar 2 Josiah Ng 3 Kiyofumi Nagai 4 Denis Špička 5 Christos Volikakis REL Roberto Chiappa
Heat 4 Rank Rider Country1 Ryan Bayley 2 Theo Bos 3 Giddeon Massie 4 Arnaud Tournant 5 Athanasios Mantzouranis 6 Ricardo Lynch 7 Maximilian Levy
Repechage
Heat 1 Rank Rider Country1 Arnaud Tournant 2 Christos Volikakis 3 Feng Yong 4 Toshiaki Fushimi
Heat 2 Rank Rider Country1 Kamil Kuczyński 2 Denis Špička 3 Denis Dmitriev REL Teun Mulder
Heat 3 Rank Rider Country1 Kiyofumi Nagai 2 Andrii Vynokurov 3 Ricardo Lynch 4 Sergey Polynskiy
Heat 4 Rank Rider Country1 Grégory Baugé 2 Maximilian Levy 3 Athanasios Mantzouranis 4 Giddeon Massie 5 Roberto Chiappa
Semifinals
Heat 1 Rank Rider Country1 Chris Hoy 2 Shane Kelly 3 Arnaud Tournant 4 Josiah Ng 5 Grégory Baugé 6 Ryan Bayley
Heat 2 Rank Rider Country1 Ross Edgar 2 Kiyofumi Nagai 3 Carsten Bergemann 4 Azizulhasni Awang DNF Theo Bos DNF Kamil Kuczyński
Finals
Classification race Rank Rider Country7 Grégory Baugé 8 Ryan Bayley 9 Josiah Ng 10 Azizulhasni Awang 11 Kamil Kuczyński DNS Theo Bos
Medals race Rank Rider Country Chris Hoy Ross Edgar Kiyofumi Nagai 4 Shane Kelly 5 Carsten Bergemann 6 Arnaud Tournant
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