The Men's keirin at the 2011 Dutch National Track Championships in Apeldoorn took place at Omnisport Apeldoorn on December 27, 2011. 19 athletes participated in the contest.
Roy van den Berg won the gold medal, Hugo Haak took silver and Matthijs Büchli won the bronze.
Competition format The Keirin races involve 6.5 laps of the track behind a pace-setter, 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 6 finalists. The final round also included a ranking race for 7th to 12th place.
Results
Qualification The top 2 athletes of each heat advanced to the semi-finals and the others to the repaches.
Heat 1 Rank NameNote 1 Roy van den Berg Q 2 Hylke van Grieken Q 3 Dempster Winterberger 4 Martijn van den Belt 5 Dennis Looij
Heat 2 Rank Name Note 1 Matthijs Büchli Q 2 Patrick Bos Q 3 Niels van Otterloo 4 Jeroen Hoekstra
Heat 3 Rank NameNote 1 Hugo Haak Q 2 Nils van `t Hoenderdaal Q 3 Philip Kootstra 4 Yorick Bos Nick Post DNF
Heat 4 Rank Name Note 1 Rigard van Klooster Q 2 Jeffrey Hoogland Q 3 Rene Smalbrugge 4 Michael Veen
Repaches The top 2 athletes of each heat advanced to the semi-finals.
Heat 1 Rank NameNote 1 Yorick Bos Q 2 Niels van Otterloo Q 3 Dempster Winterberger 4 Jeroen Hoekstra 5 Nick Post
Heat 2 Rank Name Note 1 Dennis Looij Q 2 Rene Smalbrugge Q 3 Michael Veen 4 Hidde de Vries 5 Martijn van den Belt 6 Philip Kootstra
Semi-finals The top 3 athletes of each semi-final advanced to the gold medal match and the others to 7th – 12 classification match.
Semi-final 1 Rank NameNote 1 Roy van den Berg Q 2 Hylke van Grieken Q 3 Yorick Bos Q 4 Rigard van Klooster 5 Niels van Otterloo 6 Jeffrey Hoogland
Semi-final 2 Rank Name Note 1 Hugo Haak Q 2 Matthijs Büchli Q 3 Nils van `t Hoenderdaal Q 4 Patrick Bos 5 Rene Smalbrugge 6 Dennis Looij
Finals 7th – 12th Rank Name 1 Rigard van Klooster 2 Dennis Looij 3 Patrick Bos 4 Rene Smalbrugge 5 Jeffrey Hoogland 6 Niels van Otterloo
Gold medal match Rank Name Roy van den Berg Hugo Haak Matthijs Büchli 4 Yorick Bos 5 Hylke van Grieken 6 Nils van `t Hoenderdaal
Final results Rank Name Roy van den Berg Hugo Haak Matthijs Büchli 4 Yorick Bos 5 Hylke van Grieken 6 Nils van `t Hoenderdaal 7 Rigard van Klooster 8 Dennis Looij 9 Patrick Bos 10 Rene Smalbrugge 11 Jeffrey Hoogland 12 Niels van Otterloo Results from nkbaanwielrennen.nl
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