# Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's keirin

The men's Keirin at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 16 at the Laoshan Velodrome.
This track cycling event consisted of multiple rounds. In each race, the four to seven cyclists in the heat covered 8 laps of the track. The first 5.5 laps were behind a motorized pacer called a derny, which gradually increased speed up to 50 km/h (31 mph; 14 m/s). The derny then left the track and the cyclists then raced the final 2+1⁄2 laps to the finish.
In the first round, four heats were held. The top two cyclists in each heat advanced to the semifinals, with the rest of the cyclists competing again in the repechage. Four of those cyclists advanced from the repechage to the semifinals as well, for a total of 12 semifinalists. They raced again in two semifinals heats. The top three cyclists in each semifinal advanced to the final, while the bottom three competed in the 7th to 12th place classification race.

## Qualification

Twenty-five cyclists competed in the Keirin. Chris Hoy (Great Britain) qualified directly by winning the Keirin at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He also won the event at the late 2007 World Cup event in Sydney, affording another position to qualifiers based on Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) rankings.

## Results

REL=Relegated, DNF=Did not finish, DNS=Did not start

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Rider | Country |
| 1 | Chris Hoy | Great Britain |
| 2 | Carsten Bergemann | Germany |
| 3 | Toshiaki Fushimi | Japan |
| 4 | Grégory Baugé | France |
| 5 | Kamil Kuczyński | Poland |
| 6 | Denis Dmitriev | Russia |
| Rank | Rider | Country |
| 1 | Azizulhasni Awang | Malaysia |
| 2 | Shane Kelly | Australia |
| 3 | Teun Mulder | Netherlands |
| 4 | Andrii Vynokurov | Ukraine |
| 5 | Sergey Polynskiy | Russia |
| 6 | Feng Yong | China |
| Rank | Rider | Country |
| 1 | Ross Edgar | Great Britain |
| 2 | Josiah Ng | Malaysia |
| 3 | Kiyofumi Nagai | Japan |
| 4 | Denis Špička | Czech Republic |
| 5 | Christos Volikakis | Greece |
| REL | Roberto Chiappa | Italy |
| Rank | Rider | Country |
| 1 | Ryan Bayley | Australia |
| 2 | Theo Bos | Netherlands |
| 3 | Giddeon Massie | United States |
| 4 | Arnaud Tournant | France |
| 5 | Athanasios Mantzouranis | Greece |
| 6 | Ricardo Lynch | Jamaica |
| 7 | Maximilian Levy | Germany |

### Repechage

| Rank | Rider | Country |
| 1 | Arnaud Tournant | France |
| 2 | Christos Volikakis | Greece |
| 3 | Feng Yong | China |
| 4 | Toshiaki Fushimi | Japan |
| Rank | Rider | Country |
| 1 | Kamil Kuczyński | Poland |
| 2 | Denis Špička | Czech Republic |
| 3 | Denis Dmitriev | Russia |
| REL | Teun Mulder | Netherlands |
| Rank | Rider | Country |
| 1 | Kiyofumi Nagai | Japan |
| 2 | Andrii Vynokurov | Ukraine |
| 3 | Ricardo Lynch | Jamaica |
| 4 | Sergey Polynskiy | Russia |
| Rank | Rider | Country |
| 1 | Grégory Baugé | France |
| 2 | Maximilian Levy | Germany |
| 3 | Athanasios Mantzouranis | Greece |
| 4 | Giddeon Massie | United States |
| 5 | Roberto Chiappa | Italy |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Rider | Country |
| 1 | Chris Hoy | Great Britain |
| 2 | Shane Kelly | Australia |
| 3 | Arnaud Tournant | France |
| 4 | Josiah Ng | Malaysia |
| 5 | Grégory Baugé | France |
| 6 | Ryan Bayley | Australia |
| Rank | Rider | Country |
| 1 | Ross Edgar | Great Britain |
| 2 | Kiyofumi Nagai | Japan |
| 3 | Carsten Bergemann | Germany |
| 4 | Azizulhasni Awang | Malaysia |
| DNF | Theo Bos | Netherlands |
| DNF | Kamil Kuczyński | Poland |

### Finals

| Rank | Rider | Country |
| 7 | Grégory Baugé | France |
| 8 | Ryan Bayley | Australia |
| 9 | Josiah Ng | Malaysia |
| 10 | Azizulhasni Awang | Malaysia |
| 11 | Kamil Kuczyński | Poland |
| DNS | Theo Bos | Netherlands |
| Rank | Rider | Country |
| | Chris Hoy | Great Britain |
| | Ross Edgar | Great Britain |
| | Kiyofumi Nagai | Japan |
| 4 | Shane Kelly | Australia |
| 5 | Carsten Bergemann | Germany |
| 6 | Arnaud Tournant | France |