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Richardson out in Santiago keirin quarter finals
Rainbow jersey will change hands after early exit for last year’s champion Yamasaki
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No easy heats as men’s world champs gets underway
With 30 of the 36 top-ranked male sprinters competing in Thursday’s men’s keirin competition at the UCI world championships in Santiago, Chile, the only certainty is that we can expect some thrilling racing. There will be six heats in the first round, six riders in each, with the first and second placed riders proceeding to…
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Scottish sprint star Carlin retires at 28: the fire is gone
Great Britain’s Jack Carlin says he would be doing himself and the Scottish national jersey ‘a disservice’ if he were to extend his career, purely for the chance to ride a home Commonwealth Games. The four-time Olympic medallist, winning team sprint silver and individual sprint bronze at both Tokyo and Paris, has announced his retirement…
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Japanese stars aim to retain their rainbow stripes
Japan’s Mina Sato and Kento Yamasaki are set to line up in Santiago, Chile, aiming to defend the world keirin championships they memorably won in Ballerup last year. The UCI’s 2025 track world championships begin on Wednesday, October 22, with the men’s keirin event taking place on Thursday, and the women’s on Sunday. Both competitions…
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International stars will return to Japanese keirin in June 2026
The Japanese Keirin Association has confirmed the dates of ten ‘Keirin World Series’ events in summer 2026, to which foreign athletes will be invited. International stars will return to Japanese domestic competition for the first time since 2019. There will be a G3-level event at Wakayama in early August, open to men only but with…
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Japan’s keirin series Pist6 halts 2025 operations
Pist6, the series aiming to present a modern take on Japanese keirin racing, has announced that it will ‘temporarily suspend’ operations in a few weeks. Launched in October 2021, Pist6 seemed to provide a blueprint for what DerbyWheel could be: international UCI-style racing, held over 6 laps of the indoor 250m track in Chiba City,…
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DerbyWheel’s UK company now under full Korean control
The distancing of former CEO James Pope from DerbyWheel’s UK corporate entity, DerbyWheel Player Ltd has continued, with additional registration changes today. Global Keirin reported earlier this week that the company’s formal address had been moved to a City of London office block, having previously been an address associated directly with Pope himself. The company…
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DerbyWheel’s UK business changes its official address
DerbyWheel has cut a further connection to former CEO James Pope, in the latest update to the corporate registration of its UK operating company. Global Keirin reported last month that Pope had been removed from the company’s list of directors; but its registered office was still listed as an address with personal connection to Pope.…
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Two world records in two days for Richardson
He told us he wasn’t done… and he wasn’t kidding. Great Britain’s Matthew Richardson was back on track today, and went even faster. News broke on the Instagram story of Richardson’s partner, Emma Finucane, that the new holder of the world flying 200 record returned to the Konya velodrome, and posted a time of 8.857…
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Richardson is first man to break the 9-second barrier
But brace yourselves: he’s coming back for another try on Friday
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Corporate filing confirms Pope’s exit as director
An update to the UK company records for DerbyWheel Player Ltd confirms that CEO James Pope is severing ties with the project, as reported by Global Keirin a few weeks ago. Pope’s resignation as a director of the company was notified to Companies House, the UK’s corporate register on 23 July. The submission consists only…
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Foreign riders will return to Japanese keirin in 2026
Japanese keirin is preparing to re-open its doors to international riders, for the first time since the Covid pandemic. MoreCadence is reporting a decision by the JKA that the ‘short-term registration system’, suspended in 2020, will be revived. (There’s nothing on the JKA website yet, though.) They propose to hold a Keirin World Series, consisting…
