Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's Keirin

Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road race		men		women
Time trial		men		women
Track cycling
Individual pursuit		men		women
Team pursuit		men
Sprint		men		women
Team sprint		men
Time trial		men		women
Points race		men		women
Keirin		men
Madison		men
Mountain biking
Cross-country		men		women

The men's Keirin in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics was contested by 22 cyclists. A Keirin race consisted of eight laps of the track, or 2 kilometres.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ryan Bayley (AUS)	José Antonio Escuredo (ESP)	Shane Kelly (AUS)

Results

First round

The 22 cyclists competed in three heats of seven to eight riders each. The top two riders in each heat (six overall) advanced to the next round, while the other sixteen cyclists competed in the first repechage.

Heat 1 Place Name Nation 1 Ryan Bayley Australia 2 Labros Vasilopoulos Greece 3 Jamie Staff Great Britain 4 Łukasz Kwiatkowski Poland 5 Theo Bos Netherlands 6 Toshiaki Fushimi Japan 7 Jens Fiedler Germany

Heat 2 Place Name Nation 1 René Wolff Germany 2 José Antonio Escuredo Spain 3 Martin Nothstein United States 4 Jeroslav Jerobek Slovakia 5 Josiah Ng Malaysia 6 Laurent Gané France 7 Yang Hee-Chun Korea

Heat 3 Place Name Nation 1 Shane Kelly Australia 2 Ivan Vrba Czech Republic 3 Teun Mulder Netherlands 4 Jose Sochon Guatemala 5 Ross Edgar Great Britain 6 Hong Suk-Hwan Korea 7 Mickaël Bourgain France REL Jose Villanueva Spain

First repechage

The first round repechage consisted of three heats of five to six riders each. The top two cyclists in each of the heats rejoined the winners from the first round in advancing to the second round. The rest were eliminated from competition.

Heat 1 Place Name Nation 1 Jamie Staff Great Britain 2 Jens Fiedler Germany 3 Jose Villanueva Spain 4 Ross Edgar Great Britain 5 Jeroslav Jerobek Slovakia 6 Laurent Gané France

Heat 2 Place Name Nation 1 Mickaël Bourgain France 2 Josiah Ng Malaysia 3 Jose Sochon Guatemala 4 Martin Nothstein United States 5 Toshiaki Fushimi Japan

Heat 3 Place Name Nation 1 Theo Bos Netherlands 2 Lukasz Kwiatkowski Poland 3 Hong Suk-Hwan Korea 4 Teun Mulder Netherlands 5 Yang Hee-Chun Korea

Second round

The second round consisted of two heats, with the twelve cyclists split into groups of six. The top three riders in each heat advanced to the final, while the bottom three in each heat competed in the classification race for seventh to twelfth places.

Heat 1 Place Name Nation 1 Ryan Bayley Australia 2 Josiah Ng Malaysia 3 José Antonio Escuredo Spain 4 Ivan Vrba Czech Republic 5 Lukasz Kwiatkowski Poland REL Jamie Staff Great Britain

Heat 2 Place Name Nation 1 Shane Kelly Australia 2 René Wolff Germany 3 Mickaël Bourgain France 4 Jens Fiedler Germany DNF Theo Bos Netherlands REL Labros Vasilopoulos Greece

Classification 7-12

Place	Name	Nation
1	Lukasz Kwiatkowski	Poland
2	Jens Fiedler	Germany
3	Labros Vasilopoulos	Greece
REL	Ivan Vrba	Czech Republic
DNS	Theo Bos	Netherlands
DNS	Jamie Staff	Great Britain

Final

Final results^[1]

Place	Name	Nation
1	Ryan Bayley	Australia
2	José Antonio Escuredo	Spain
3	Shane Kelly	Australia
DNF	Mickaël Bourgain	France
REL	René Wolff	Germany
REL	Josiah Ng	Malaysia

Final classification

Pos.	Athlete	NOC
1.	Ryan Bayley	Australia
2.	José Antonio Escuredo	Spain
3.	Shane Kelly	Australia
4.	Mickaël Bourgain	France
5.	René Wolff	Germany
6.	Josiah Ng	Malaysia
7.	Lukasz Kwiatkowski	Poland
8.	Jens Fiedler	Germany
9.	Labros Vasilopoulos	Greece
10.	Ivan Vrba	Czech Republic
11.	Theo Bos	Netherlands
12.	Jamie Staff	United Kingdom

• Ross Edgar, Great Britain
• Toshiaki Fushimi, Japan
• Laurent Gané, France
• Hong Suk-Hwan, Korea
• Jeroslav Jerobek, Slovakia
• Teun Mulder, Netherlands
• Martin Nothstein, United States
• Jose Sochon, Guatemala
• Jose Villanueva, Spain
• Yang Hee-Chun, Korea

References

• Official Olympic Report

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