# Strong showing by Japan’s men in keirin first round

*By Simon | October 17, 2024*

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## 󠀁[Strong showing by Japan’s men in keirin first round](https://globalkeirin.com/2024/10/ballerup-strong-showing-by-japanese-men-in-keirin-first-round/)󠁿

17 October 2024

There were eyecatching performances from the Japanese riders in the first round
of men’s keirin at the Track World Championships in Ballerup. **Kaiya Ota** and
**Shinji Nakano** both won their heats, with **Kento Yamasaki** snatching second
behind Colombia’s **Kevin Quintero**, to safely book their places in the quarter
finals.

Dutch sprint star **Harrie Lavreysen** took the win in a very close second heat,
ahead of Trinidad & Tobago’s **Nicholas Paul**, with **Santiago Ramirez** just
behind in third. The Colombian missed out on automatic qualification, and must
go again in the repechages.

Israel’s **Mikhail Yakovlev** recorded the fastest final 200m, winning the hotly
contested final heat by just 0.015s from **Jeffrey Hoogland**. But there was
disappointment for Team GB, with **Hayden Norris** and **Harry Ledingham-Horn**
both missing out.

Riders have just an hour to recover before the repechage races: again, they will
need to be in the first two to proceed.

### Heat 1

| ✅ | Quintero | COL 🇨🇴 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 󠀁**✅**󠁿 | Yamasaki | JPN 🇯🇵 |
| 󠀁**3**󠁿 | To | HKG 🇭🇰 |
| 󠀁**4**󠁿 | Spiegel | GER 🇩🇪 |
| 󠀁**5**󠁿 | Lendel | LTU 🇱🇹 |

### Heat 2

| ✅ | Lavreysen | NED 🇳🇱 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ✅ | Paul | TTO 🇹🇹 |
| 󠀁**3**󠁿 | Ramirez | COL 🇨🇴 |
| 󠀁**4**󠁿 | Kang | TPE 🏳️ |
| 󠀁**5**󠁿 | Čechman | CZE 🇨🇿 |

### Heat 3

| ✅ | Ota | JPN 🇯🇵 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ✅ | Rudyk | POL 🇵🇱 |
| 󠀁**3**󠁿 | Ortega | COL 🇨🇴 |
| 󠀁**4**󠁿 | Elliott | AUS 🇦🇺 |
| 󠀁**5**󠁿 | Ridwan | MAS 🇲🇾 |

### Heat 4

| ✅ | Nakano | JPN 🇯🇵 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ✅ | Shah Firdaus | MAS 🇲🇾 |
| 󠀁**3**󠁿 | van Loon | NED 🇳🇱 |
| 󠀁**4**󠁿 | Hedgcock | CAN 🇨🇦 |
| 󠀁**5**󠁿 | Moro | ITA 🇮🇹 |
| 󠀁**6**󠁿 | Norris | GBR 🇬🇧 |

### Heat 5

| ✅ | Yakovlev | ISR 🇮🇱 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ✅ | Hoogland | NED 🇳🇱 |
| 󠀁**3**󠁿 | Cornish | AUS 🇦🇺 |
| 󠀁**4**󠁿 | Tjon En Fa | SUR 🇸🇷 |
| 󠀁**5**󠁿 | Ledingham-Horn | GBR 🇬🇧 |
| 󠀁**6**󠁿 | Kurdidi | KAZ 🇰🇿 |

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