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.
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Results
First round The heats were held at 14:30.
Heat 1 Rank Name Nation Notes 1 Yudai Nitta Q 2 Josiah Ng 3 Zhang Miao 4 Shane Perkins 5 Sergey Borisov
Heat 2 Rank Name Nation Notes 1 Chris Hoy Q 2 Hersony Canelón 3 Joachim Eilers 4 Francesco Ceci 5 Kamil Kuczyński
Heat 3 Rank Name Nation Notes 1 Hodei Mazquiaran Uria Q 2 Simon Van Velthooven 3 Teun Mulder 4 Maximilian Levy 5 Denis Špička
Heat 4 Rank Name Nation Notes 1 Azizulhasni Awang Q 2 Matthew Crampton 3 Alexander Quincy 4 Juan Peralta Gascon 5 Fabián Puerta – Matthew Glaetzer DNF
Heat 5 Rank Name Nation Notes 1 Kazunari Watanabe Q 2 Jason Kenny 3 Christos Volikakis 4 Mickaël Bourgain 5 Edward Dawkins 6 Andriy Vynokurov
Heat 6 Rank Name Nation Notes 1 Scott Sunderland Q 2 François Pervis 3 Matthew Archibald 4 Jonathan Marín 5 Muhammad Md Yunos 6 Hugo Haak
First round repechage The heats were held at 16:05.
Heat 1 Rank Name Nation Notes 1 Mickaël Bourgain Q 2 Fabián Puerta 3 Josiah Ng 4 Matthew Archibald
Heat 2 Rank Name Nation Notes 1 Hersony Canelón Q 2 Christos Volikakis 3 Denis Špička 4 Juan Peralta Gascon
Heat 3 Rank Name Nation Notes 1 Simon Van Velthooven Q 2 Jonathan Marín 3 Kamil Kuczyński 4 Alexander Quincy
Heat 4 Rank Name Nation Notes 1 Matthew Crampton Q 2 Francesco Ceci 3 Teun Mulder 4 Andriy Vynokurov 5 Sergey Borisov
Heat 5 Rank Name Nation Notes 1 Jason Kenny Q 2 Matthew Glaetzer 3 Shane Perkins 4 Joachim Eilers 5 Muhammad Md Yunos
Heat 6 Rank Name Nation Notes 1 Maximilian Levy Q 2 Edward Dawkins 3 François Pervis 4 Zhang Miao 5 Hugo Haak
Second round The heats were held at 19:15.Second round results
Heat 1 Rank Name Nation Notes 1 Maximilian Levy Q 2 Kazunari Watanabe Q 3 Simon Van Velthooven Q 4 Yudai Nitta 5 Azizulhasni Awang 6 Hersony Canelón
Heat 2 Rank Name Nation Notes 1 Chris Hoy Q 2 Mickaël Bourgain Q 3 Jason Kenny Q 4 Scott Sunderland 5 Matthew Crampton 6 Hodei Mazquiaran Uria
Finals The finals were held at 20:45.Final results
Small final Rank Name Nation Notes 7 Scott Sunderland 8 Hersony Canelón 9 Azizulhasni Awang 10 Matthew Crampton 11 Hodei Mazquiaran Uria 12 Yudai Nitta
Final Rank Name Nation Notes Chris Hoy Maximilian Levy Jason Kenny 4 Mickaël Bourgain 5 Kazunari Watanabe – Simon Van Velthooven REL
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