The Men's keirin at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on February 22. 28 athletes participated in the contest. After the 4 qualifying heats, the fastest two riders in each heat advanced to the second round. The riders that did not advance to the second round, raced in 4 repechage heats. The first rider in each heat advanced to the second round along with the 8 that qualified before.

The first 3 riders from each of the 2 Second Round heats advanced to the Final and the remaining riders raced a consolation 7–12 final.^[1]

Gold	Jason Kenny (GBR)
Silver	Maximilian Levy (GER)
Bronze	Matthijs Büchli (NED)

The heats were held at 13:30.^[2]

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Maximilian Levy	Germany		Q
2	Josiah Ng	Malaysia	+0.045	Q
3	Edward Dawkins	New Zealand	+0.174
4	Quentin Lafargue	France	+0.242
5	Denis Dmitriev	Russia	+0.396
6	Edgar Verdugo	Mexico	+0.541
7	Francesco Ceci	Italy	+0.628

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Tobias Wachter	Germany		Q
2	Matthijs Büchli	Netherlands	+0.080	Q
3	Jason Kenny	Great Britain	+0.296
4	Yudai Nitta	Japan	+0.316
5	Matthew Crampton	Great Britain	+0.447
6	Matthew Glaetzer	Australia	+0.558
7	Christos Volikakis	Greece	+0.688

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	François Pervis	France		Q
2	Stefan Bötticher	Germany	+0.018	Q
3	Andrew Taylor	Australia	+0.134
4	Pavel Kelemen	Czech Republic	+0.223
5	Valentin Savitskiy	Russia	+0.418
6	Kazunari Watanabe	Japan	+0.491
7	Hodei Mazquiarán	Spain	+1.600

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Simon van Velthooven	New Zealand		Q
2	Scott Sunderland	Australia	+0.347	Q
3	Fabián Puerta	Colombia	+0.543
4	Adam Ptáčník	Czech Republic	+0.604
5	Juan Peralta	Spain	+0.675
6	Kamil Kuczyński	Poland	+0.917
7	Hugo Haak	Netherlands	+0.990

The heats were held at 14:55.^[3]

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Matthew Glaetzer	Australia		Q
2	Valentin Savitskiy	Russia	+0.103
3	Edward Dawkins	New Zealand	+0.187
4	Francesco Ceci	Italy	+0.205
5	Adam Ptáčník	Czech Republic	+0.250

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Jason Kenny	Great Britain		Q
2	Hugo Haak	Netherlands	+0.120
3	Matthew Crampton	Great Britain	+0.130
4	Edgar Verdugo	Mexico	+0.158
5	Pavel Kelemen	Czech Republic	+0.207

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Andrew Taylor	Australia		Q
2	Hodei Uria	Spain	+0.332
3	Kamil Kuczyński	Poland	+0.433
4	Denis Dmitriev	Russia	+0.547
5	Yudai Nitta	Japan		REL

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Christos Volikakis	Greece		Q
2	Quentin Lafargue	France	+0.113
3	Fabián Puerta	Colombia	+0.248
4	Juan Peralta	Spain	+0.250
5	Kazunari Watanabe	Japan	+0.767

The heats were held at 19:50.^[4]

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Maximilian Levy	Germany		Q
2	Matthijs Büchli	Netherlands	+0.102	Q
3	Stefan Bötticher	Germany	+0.187	Q
4	Simon van Velthooven	New Zealand	+0.216
5	Matthew Glaetzer	Australia	+0.283
6	Christos Volikakis	Greece		REL

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
1	Andrew Taylor	Australia		Q
2	Scott Sunderland	Australia	+0.081	Q
3	Jason Kenny	Great Britain	+0.100	Q
4	Tobias Wachter	Germany	+0.247
5	Josiah Ng	Malaysia	+0.474
6	François Pervis	France		REL

The finals were held at 21:15.^[5]

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
7	François Pervis	France
8	Matthew Glaetzer	Australia	+0.056
9	Christos Volikakis	Greece	+0.070
10	Tobias Wachter	Germany	+0.086
11	Josiah Ng	Malaysia	+0.173
12	Simon van Velthooven	New Zealand		REL

Rank	Name	Nation	Gap	Notes
	Jason Kenny	Great Britain
	Maximilian Levy	Germany	+0.047
	Matthijs Büchli	Netherlands	+0.224
4	Andrew Taylor	Australia	+0.307
5	Scott Sunderland	Australia	+0.701
6	Stefan Bötticher	Germany	+0.802