Gaxiola finishes sixth in Olympic cycling’s women’s keirin

Pagain. Mexican Daniela Gaxiola finished sixth in the women’s keirin of track cycling at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Thursday.

Gold went to New Zealand’s Ellese Andrews, the reigning world champion in this discipline. Silver went to Dutchwoman Hetty Van De Wouw and bronze to Britain’s Emma Finucane.

Gaxiola made her way through the rounds on Thursday afternoon at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome on the outskirts of Paris until she reached the final for gold and earned the right to dream of a medal. But in that last and decisive race she finished sixth and last in the ranking.

Previously, she had finished second in the first of two semi-final series (only the top three qualified), 104 hundredths behind New Zealander Ellesse Andrews.

And previously she had been fourth in her quarter-final series (only the first four qualified), in which the fastest was the French Mathilde Gros, who would be eliminated in the semi-finals.

The 31-year-old Mexican, who finished fifth on Monday in the women’s team sprint with the Aztec team, will also compete in the women’s sprint on Friday.