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 200m 🥇Noah Lyles 🇺🇸 🥈Letsile Tebogo 🇧🇼 🥉Kenneth Bednarek 🇺🇸

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.

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.