Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's keirin

The women's Keirin at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place at the London Velopark on 3 August. Women's Keirin made its debut in this Olympics.

Great Britain's Victoria Pendleton won the gold medal. Guo Shuang from China won silver and Lee Wai Sze took bronze for Hong Kong's only medal of the 2012 Games.

Competition format

The Keirin races involved 5.5 laps of the track behind a motorcycle, followed by a 2.5 lap sprint to the finish. The tournament consisted of preliminary heats and repechages, a semi-finals round, and the finals. The heats and repechages narrowed the field to 12. The semi-finals divided the remaining 12 into six finalists. The finals round also included a ranking race for 7th to 12th place.

Schedule All times are British Summer Time Date Time RoundFriday 3 August 2012 16:00 Round 1, repechage, round 2 and final

Results

First round

Heat 1 Rank Rider Country1 Kristina Vogel DSQ Ekaterina Gnidenko 3 Lisandra Guerra 4 Juliana Gaviria 5 Monique Sullivan 6 Clara Sanchez

Heat 2 Rank Rider Country1 Victoria Pendleton 2 Anna Meares 3 Natasha Hansen 4 Fatehah Mustapa 5 Lyubov Shulika 6 Willy Kanis

Heat 3 Rank Rider Country1 Guo Shuang 2 Simona Krupeckaitė 3 Daniela Larreal 4 Lee Wai Sze 5 Lee Hye-Jin 6 Olga Panarina

Repechages

Repechage 1 Rank Rider Country1 Lee Wai Sze 2 Willy Kanis 3 Monique Sullivan 4 Lisandra Guerra 5 Olga Panarina 6 Juliana Gaviria

Repechage 2 Rank Rider Country1 Clara Sanchez 2 Natasha Hansen 3 Daniela Larreal 4 Lyubov Shulika 5 Fatehah Mustapa 6 Lee Hye-Jin

Second round

Heat 1 Rank Rider Country1 Anna Meares 2 Monique Sullivan 3 Lee Wai Sze 4 Willy Kanis 5 Simona Krupeckaitė 6 Kristina Vogel

Heat 2 Rank Rider Country1 Victoria Pendleton 2 Clara Sanchez 3 Guo Shuang DSQ Ekaterina Gnidenko 5 Natasha Hansen 6 Daniela Larreal

7th–12th final Rank Rider Country7 Simona Krupeckaitė DSQ Ekaterina Gnidenko 9 Daniela Larreal 10 Kristina Vogel 11 Natasha Hansen 12 Willy Kanis

Final Rank Rider Country Victoria Pendleton Guo Shuang Lee Wai Sze 4 Clara Sanchez 5 Anna Meares 6 Monique Sullivan

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