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Women's keirin
at the: Games of the——XXX Olympiad
VenueLondon Velopark
Date3 August
Competitors18 from 18 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Victoria Pendleton  Great Britain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Guo Shuang  China
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lee Wai Sze  Hong Kong
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The women's Keirin at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place at the London Velopark on 3 August. Women's Keirin made its debut in this Olympics.

Great Britain's Victoria Pendleton won the "gold medal." 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.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time

Date Time Round
Friday 3 August 2012 16:00 Round 1, repechage, round 2 and final

Results

Riders before a heat

First round

Heat 1

Rank Rider Country
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

Rank Rider Country
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

Rank Rider Country
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

Repechages

Repechage 1

Rank Rider Country
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

Rank Rider Country
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

Second round

Heat 1

Rank Rider Country
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

Rank Rider Country
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

Rank Rider Country
7 Simona Krupeckaitė  Lithuania
DSQ Ekaterina Gnidenko  Russia
9 Daniela Larreal  Venezuela
10 Kristina Vogel  Germany
11 Natasha Hansen  New Zealand
12 Willy Kanis  Netherlands

Final

Rank Rider Country
1st place, gold medalist(s) Victoria Pendleton  Great Britain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Guo Shuang  China
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lee Wai Sze  Hong Kong
4 Clara Sanchez  France
5 Anna Meares  Australia
6 Monique Sullivan  Canada

References

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  2. ^ "London 2012 Summer Olympics - results & video highlights". 19 July 2016. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  3. ^ "London 2012 Summer Olympics - results & video highlights". 19 July 2016. Archived from the original on 3 September 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  4. ^ "IOC sanctions four athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008 and London 2012". 14 July 2021.

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