2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's keirin explained

Event:	Men's keirin
Championship:	2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Dates:	1 March
Venue:	Omnisport Apeldoorn
Location:	Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Competitors:	29
Nations:	17
Gold:	Fabián Puerta
Gold Nation:	COL
Silver:	Tomoyuki Kawabata
Silver Nation:	JPN
Bronze:	Maximilian Levy
Bronze Nation:	GER
Prev:	2017
Next:	2019

The men's keirin competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 1 March 2018 at the Omnisport Apeldoorn in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.^{[1] [2]}

Results

First round

The first rider in each heat qualified to the second round, all other riders advanced to the first round repechages.^[3]

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Maximilian Levy			Q
2	Andriy Vynokurov		+0.078
3	Vasilijus Lendel		+0.253
4	Yuta Wakimoto		+0.319
5	Sam Webster		+3.340

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Joachim Eilers			Q
2	Joseph Truman
3	Yudai Nitta		+0.448
4	Eddie Dawkins		+0.515
5	Jean Spies		+0.569

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Jack Carlin			Q
2	Pavel Kelemen		+0.027
3	Maximilian Dornbach		+0.140
4	Juan Peralta		+0.328
5	Kang Shih-feng		+0.666

• Q = qualified to Second round

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Matthew Glaetzer			Q
2	Tomoyuki Kawabata		+0.160
3	Santiago Ramírez		+0.406
4	Patryk Rajkowski		+0.426
5	François Pervis		+2.127

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Matthijs Büchli			Q
2	Muhammad Sahrom		+0.125
3	Hugo Barrette		+0.664
4	David Sojka		+0.792
5	Quentin Lafargue		+0.894

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Fabián Puerta			Q
2	Jordan Castle		+0.081
3	Azizulhasni Awang		+0.526
4	Harrie Lavreysen		+1.470

First round repechage

The winner of each heat qualified to the second round.^[4]

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Andriy Vynokurov			Q
2	Azizulhasni Awang		+0.035
3	François Pervis		+0.103
4	David Sojka		+0.913

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Hugo Barrette			Q
2	Patryk Rajkowski		+0.100
3	Joseph Truman		+0.132
4	Kang Shih-feng		+4.219

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Juan Peralta			Q
2			+0.034
3	Sam Webster		+18.502
4	Santiago Ramírez		+0.111

• Q = qualified to Second round

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Tomoyuki Kawabata			Q
2	Eddie Dawkins
3	Maximilian Dornbach		+0.169
4	Jean Spies		+1.987

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Yuta Wakimoto			Q
2	Vasilijus Lendel		+0.124
3	Muhammad Sahrom
4	Quentin Lafargue		+0.441

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Harrie Lavreysen			Q
2	Jordan Castle		+0.344
3	Yudai Nitta		+0.459

Second round

The first three riders in each heat qualify to final 1–6, all other riders advance to final 7–12.^[5]

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Harrie Lavreysen			Q
2	Maximilian Levy		+0.068	Q
3	Fabián Puerta		+0.094	Q
4			+0.144
5	Yuta Wakimoto		+0.245
6	Juan Peralta		+0.400

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Matthijs Büchli			Q
2	Jack Carlin		+0.197	Q
3	Tomoyuki Kawabata		+0.214	Q
4	Hugo Barrette		+0.249
5	Andriy Vynokurov		+0.671
6	Joachim Eilers		+1.367

Finals

The finals were started at 20:39.^[6]

Small final

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
7
8			+0.101
9			+0.143
10			+0.144
11	Juan Peralta		+0.233
12	Joachim Eilers		+1.219

Final

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
	Fabián Puerta
	Tomoyuki Kawabata		+0.043
	Maximilian Levy		+0.101
4	Matthijs Büchli		+0.161
5	Jack Carlin		+0.200
6	Harrie Lavreysen		+0.827

Notes and References

1. Web site: Schedule . 2018-02-26 . 2018-02-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180228102600/https://www.wkbaanapeldoorn.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Apeldoorn_As-of-22.02.18.pdf . dead .
2. http://www.tissottiming.com/File/0003100002010901FFFFFFFFFFFFFF01 Start list
3. http://www.tissottiming.com/File/0003100002010901FFFFFFFFFFFFFF02 First round results
4. http://www.tissottiming.com/File/0003100002010902FFFFFFFFFFFFFF02 First round repechage results
5. http://www.tissottiming.com/File/0003100002010903FFFFFFFFFFFFFF02 Second round results
6. http://www.tissottiming.com/File/0003100002010904FFFFFFFFFFFFFF02 Final results