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.[1] Women's Keirin made its debut in this Olympics.

Women's Keirin
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
VenueLondon Velopark
Date3 August
Competitors18 from 18 nations
Medalists
Victoria Pendleton  Great Britain
Guo Shuang  China
Lee Wai Sze  Hong Kong

Great Britain's Victoria Pendleton won the gold medal.[2] 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.[3]

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time

Date Time Round
Friday 3 August 201216:00Round 1, repechage, round 2 and final

Results

Riders before a heat

Heat 1

RankRiderCountry
1 Kristina Vogel Germany
DSQ Ekaterina Gnidenko Russia
3 Lisandra Guerra Cuba
4 Juliana Gaviria Colombia
5 Monique Sullivan Canada
6 Clara Sanchez France

Heat 2

RankRiderCountry
1 Victoria Pendleton Great Britain
2 Anna Meares Australia
3 Natasha Hansen New Zealand
4 Fatehah Mustapa Malaysia
5 Lyubov Shulika Ukraine
6 Willy Kanis Netherlands

Heat 3

RankRiderCountry
1 Guo Shuang China
2 Simona Krupeckaitė Lithuania
3 Daniela Larreal Venezuela
4 Lee Wai Sze Hong Kong
5 Lee Hye-Jin South Korea
6 Olga Panarina Belarus

Repechage 1

RankRiderCountry
1 Lee Wai Sze Hong Kong
2 Willy Kanis Netherlands
3 Monique Sullivan Canada
4 Lisandra Guerra Cuba
5 Olga Panarina Belarus
6 Juliana Gaviria Colombia

Repechage 2

RankRiderCountry
1 Clara Sanchez France
2 Natasha Hansen New Zealand
3 Daniela Larreal Venezuela
4 Lyubov Shulika Ukraine
5 Fatehah Mustapa Malaysia
6 Lee Hye-Jin South Korea

Heat 1

RankRiderCountry
1 Anna Meares Australia
2 Monique Sullivan Canada
3 Lee Wai Sze Hong Kong
4 Willy Kanis Netherlands
5 Simona Krupeckaitė Lithuania
6 Kristina Vogel Germany

Heat 2

RankRiderCountry
1 Victoria Pendleton Great Britain
2 Clara Sanchez France
3 Guo Shuang China
DSQ Ekaterina Gnidenko Russia
5 Natasha Hansen New Zealand
6 Daniela Larreal Venezuela

7th–12th final

RankRiderCountry
7 Simona Krupeckaitė Lithuania
DSQ[4] Ekaterina Gnidenko Russia
9 Daniela Larreal Venezuela
10 Kristina Vogel Germany
11 Natasha Hansen New Zealand
12 Willy Kanis Netherlands

Final

RankRiderCountry
Victoria Pendleton Great Britain
Guo Shuang China
Lee Wai Sze Hong Kong
4 Clara Sanchez France
5 Anna Meares Australia
6 Monique Sullivan Canada

References

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