With forty laps to go in the points race Thomas had gone into the overall lead but the top three were separated by just four points.

1900-2200: Athletics; Men's 400m Hurdles 🥇Rai Benjamin 🇺🇸 🥈Karsten Warholm 🇳🇴 🥉Alison dos Santos 🇧🇷

Keirin is the sprint event that most lends itself to a shock. It showed itself to be a hard track to overtake with its long turns.

Kenny lost his first race in the semi but rebounded to qualify where he’d come up against teammate Callum Skinner.

The second race between the Dutch riders saw swings and Lavreysen managed to edge Hoogland on the line to send it to a third race.