Just to satisfy our curiosity, we collated a ranking of UCI Track Champions League points, based only on the keirin races. Would it tell us anything different about the competitions, or the riders?
(We’re assuming these are the competition’s final results, with round 5 declared void following the Marchant-Pröpster crash.)
Men’s competition
Anyone watching the men’s sprint events would have concluded it was a simple head-to-head between Harrie Lavreysen and Matthew Richardson, with Cristian Ortega occasionally interfering. But when you look at the collated keirin results, it was an incredibly tight three-horse race… with a big jump back to everyone else.
Richardson may have won twice, but his other placings cost him the overall. Lavreysen and Ortega both scored one win and two second places, with the Dutch master only ahead based on his third place on the second night at Apeldoorn.
Mateusz Rudyk ranks fifth based on keirin alone, versus 14th based purely on sprint. Leigh Hoffman‘s poor results at the start of the competition only puts him 8th based on keirin; he was much more consistent in match sprint.
| Name | Country | K Rank | TCL Overall | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | K Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAVREYSEN | NED | 1 | 1 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 20 | 69 |
| RICHARDSON | GBR | 2 | 2 | 20 | 13 | 20 | 15 | 68 |
| ORTEGA | COL | 3 | 3 | 13 | 20 | 17 | 17 | 67 |
| PAUL | TTO | 4 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 39 |
| RUDYK | POL | 5 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 38 |
| HOOGLAND | NED | 6 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 35 |
| TJON EN FA | SUR | 7 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 11 | 31 |
| HOFFMAN | AUS | 8= | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 13 | 30 |
| CORNISH | AUS | 8= | 7 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 30 |
| QUINTERO | COL | 10 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 25 |
| DAKIN | NZL | 11 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 20 |
| HELAL | FRA | 12 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 18 |
| SAHROM | MAS | 13 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 16 |
| YAKOVLEV | ISR | 14 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 14 |
| RYAN | AUS | 15 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| SPIEGEL | GER | 16 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| LEDINGHAM-HORN | GBR | 17 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| LENDEL | LTU | 18 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Women’s competition
Alina Lysenko was unbeatable in the keirin competition, winning four out of four. Second was Steffie van der Peet, the only other woman to make the final each time. Emma Finucane, best overall for match sprint, was only fifth for keirin.
Katy Marchant, whose crash brought the final evening to a halt, is known as something of a keirin specialist: but she only made the final once, and placed 13th overall for keirin. (Based on sprints alone, she was 5th.)
Conversely, Stefany Cuadrado was joint-8th based on keirin, but she was effectively last based on sprint, once you remove Degrendele from the reckoning.
| Name | Country | K Rank | TCL Overall | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | K Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LYSENKO | AIN | 1 | 1 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 80 |
| VAN DER PEET | NED | 2 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 17 | 11 | 56 |
| BAYONA | COL | 3 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 52 |
| ANDREWS | NZL | 4 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 47 |
| FINUCANE | GBR | 5 | 2 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 41 |
| CAPEWELL | GBR | 6 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 33 |
| CLONAN | AUS | 7 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 27 |
| GROS | FRA | 8= | 10 | 11 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 26 |
| CUADRADO | COL | 8= | 15 | 9 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 26 |
| GAXIOLA | MEX | 10 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 22 |
| VECE | ITA | 11= | 9 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 20 |
| VAN DE WOUW | NED | 11= | 11 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| MARCHANT | GBR | 13 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 19 |
| FULTON | NZL | 14= | 13 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 15 |
| BILETSKA | UKR | 14= | 17 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 15 |
| PETCH | NZL | 16 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 12 |
| PRÖPSTER | GER | 17 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| DEGRENDELE | BEL | 18 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
