2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's keirin
# 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's keirin

The Men's keirin at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on February 22. 28 athletes participated in the contest. After the 4 qualifying heats, the fastest two riders in each heat advanced to the second round. The riders that did not advance to the second round, raced in 4 repechage heats. The first rider in each heat advanced to the second round along with the 8 that qualified before.

The first 3 riders from each of the 2 Second Round heats advanced to the Final and the remaining riders raced a consolation 7–12 final.

## Medalists

| Gold | Jason Kenny (GBR) |
| - | - |
| Silver | Maximilian Levy (GER) |
| Bronze | Matthijs Büchli (NED) |

## Results

### First round

The heats were held at 13:30.

**Heat 1**

| Rank | Name | Nation | Gap | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Maximilian Levy | Germany | | Q |
| 2 | Josiah Ng | Malaysia | +0.045 | Q |
| 3 | Edward Dawkins | New Zealand | +0.174 | |
| 4 | Quentin Lafargue | France | +0.242 | |
| 5 | Denis Dmitriev | Russia | +0.396 | |
| 6 | Edgar Verdugo | Mexico | +0.541 | |
| 7 | Francesco Ceci | Italy | +0.628 | |

**Heat 2**

| Rank | Name | Nation | Gap | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Tobias Wachter | Germany | | Q |
| 2 | Matthijs Büchli | Netherlands | +0.080 | Q |
| 3 | Jason Kenny | Great Britain | +0.296 | |
| 4 | Yudai Nitta | Japan | +0.316 | |
| 5 | Matthew Crampton | Great Britain | +0.447 | |
| 6 | Matthew Glaetzer | Australia | +0.558 | |
| 7 | Christos Volikakis | Greece | +0.688 | |

**Heat 3**

| Rank | Name | Nation | Gap | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | François Pervis | France | | Q |
| 2 | Stefan Bötticher | Germany | +0.018 | Q |
| 3 | Andrew Taylor | Australia | +0.134 | |
| 4 | Pavel Kelemen | Czech Republic | +0.223 | |
| 5 | Valentin Savitskiy | Russia | +0.418 | |
| 6 | Kazunari Watanabe | Japan | +0.491 | |
| 7 | Hodei Mazquiarán | Spain | +1.600 | |

**Heat 4**

| Rank | Name | Nation | Gap | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Simon van Velthooven | New Zealand | | Q |
| 2 | Scott Sunderland | Australia | +0.347 | Q |
| 3 | Fabián Puerta | Colombia | +0.543 | |
| 4 | Adam Ptáčník | Czech Republic | +0.604 | |
| 5 | Juan Peralta | Spain | +0.675 | |
| 6 | Kamil Kuczyński | Poland | +0.917 | |
| 7 | Hugo Haak | Netherlands | +0.990 | |

### First Round Repechage

The heats were held at 14:55.

**Heat 1**

| Rank | Name | Nation | Gap | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Matthew Glaetzer | Australia | | Q |
| 2 | Valentin Savitskiy | Russia | +0.103 | |
| 3 | Edward Dawkins | New Zealand | +0.187 | |
| 4 | Francesco Ceci | Italy | +0.205 | |
| 5 | Adam Ptáčník | Czech Republic | +0.250 | |

**Heat 2**

| Rank | Name | Nation | Gap | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Jason Kenny | Great Britain | | Q |
| 2 | Hugo Haak | Netherlands | +0.120 | |
| 3 | Matthew Crampton | Great Britain | +0.130 | |
| 4 | Edgar Verdugo | Mexico | +0.158 | |
| 5 | Pavel Kelemen | Czech Republic | +0.207 | |

**Heat 3**

| Rank | Name | Nation | Gap | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Andrew Taylor | Australia | | Q |
| 2 | Hodei Uria | Spain | +0.332 | |
| 3 | Kamil Kuczyński | Poland | +0.433 | |
| 4 | Denis Dmitriev | Russia | +0.547 | |
| 5 | Yudai Nitta | Japan | | REL |

**Heat 4**

| Rank | Name | Nation | Gap | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Christos Volikakis | Greece | | Q |
| 2 | Quentin Lafargue | France | +0.113 | |
| 3 | Fabián Puerta | Colombia | +0.248 | |
| 4 | Juan Peralta | Spain | +0.250 | |
| 5 | Kazunari Watanabe | Japan | +0.767 | |

### Second round

The heats were held at 19:50.

**Heat 1**

| Rank | Name | Nation | Gap | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Maximilian Levy | Germany | | Q |
| 2 | Matthijs Büchli | Netherlands | +0.102 | Q |
| 3 | Stefan Bötticher | Germany | +0.187 | Q |
| 4 | Simon van Velthooven | New Zealand | +0.216 | |
| 5 | Matthew Glaetzer | Australia | +0.283 | |
| 6 | Christos Volikakis | Greece | | REL |

**Heat 2**

| Rank | Name | Nation | Gap | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Andrew Taylor | Australia | | Q |
| 2 | Scott Sunderland | Australia | +0.081 | Q |
| 3 | Jason Kenny | Great Britain | +0.100 | Q |
| 4 | Tobias Wachter | Germany | +0.247 | |
| 5 | Josiah Ng | Malaysia | +0.474 | |
| 6 | François Pervis | France | | REL |

### Finals

The finals were held at 21:15.

**Small Final**

| Rank | Name | Nation | Gap | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 7 | François Pervis | France | | |
| 8 | Matthew Glaetzer | Australia | +0.056 | |
| 9 | Christos Volikakis | Greece | +0.070 | |
| 10 | Tobias Wachter | Germany | +0.086 | |
| 11 | Josiah Ng | Malaysia | +0.173 | |
| 12 | Simon van Velthooven | New Zealand | | REL |

**Final**

| Rank | Name | Nation | Gap |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Jason Kenny | Great Britain | |
| | Maximilian Levy | Germany | +0.047 |
| | Matthijs Büchli | Netherlands | +0.224 |
| 4 | Andrew Taylor | Australia | +0.307 |
| 5 | Scott Sunderland | Australia | +0.701 |
| 6 | Stefan Bötticher | Germany | +0.802 |
