Australia overpowers Britain for team pursuit gold

 Confounding the expectations caused by today’s qualification round, the Australian team went considerably quicker than its afternoon time to beat Great Britain in the evening finals, thus denying the favourites gold. The quartet of Jack Bobridge, Rohan Dennis, Michael Hepburn and Cameron Meyer smashed the track record with its time of 3 minutes 55.654 seconds, two and a half seconds faster than the earlier mark.

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Men's Team Pursuit Final
1Australia0:03:55.654
Row 1 - Cell 0 Jack BobridgeRow 1 - Cell 2
Row 2 - Cell 0 Rohan DennisRow 2 - Cell 2
Row 3 - Cell 0 Michael HepburnRow 3 - Cell 2
Row 4 - Cell 0 Cameron MeyerRow 4 - Cell 2
2Great Britain0:03:55.806
Row 6 - Cell 0 Steven BurkeRow 6 - Cell 2
Row 7 - Cell 0 Edward ClancyRow 7 - Cell 2
Row 8 - Cell 0 Ben SwiftRow 8 - Cell 2
Row 9 - Cell 0 Andrew TennantRow 9 - Cell 2
3New Zealand0:03:59.475
Row 11 - Cell 0 Sam BewleyRow 11 - Cell 2
Row 12 - Cell 0 Westley GoughRow 12 - Cell 2
Row 13 - Cell 0 Peter LathamRow 13 - Cell 2
Row 14 - Cell 0 Jesse SergentRow 14 - Cell 2
4Denmark0:04:01.664
Row 16 - Cell 0 Niki ByrgesenRow 16 - Cell 2
Row 17 - Cell 0 Michael Faerk ChristensenRow 17 - Cell 2
Row 18 - Cell 0 Jens­Erik MadsenRow 18 - Cell 2
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Men's Kilometre TT
1Teun Mulder (Netherlands)0:01:00.341
2Michaël D'Almeida (France)0:01:00.884
3François Pervis (France)0:01:01.024
4Stefan Nimke (Germany)0:01:01.086
5Edward Dawkins (New Zealand)0:01:01.372
6Miao Zhang (People's Republic of China)0:01:01.520
7David Daniell (Great Britain)0:01:02.033
8Scott Sunderland (Australia)0:01:02.291
9David Alonso Castillo (Spain)0:01:03.004
10Yevgen Bolibrukh (Ukraine)0:01:03.038
11Kamil Kuczynski (Poland)0:01:03.056
12Rene Enders (Germany)0:01:03.058
13Quentin Lafargue (France)0:01:03.100
14Chongyang Wang (People's Republic of China)0:01:03.140
15Ethan Mitchell (New Zealand)0:01:03.389
16Joachim Eilers (Germany)0:01:03.503
17Nikolay Zhurkin (Russian Federation)0:01:03.525
18Adrian Teklinski (Poland)0:01:03.568
19Myron Simpson (New Zealand)0:01:03.691
20Yudai Nitta (Japan)0:01:03.762
21Clemens Selzer (Austria)0:01:03.766
22Francesco Ceci (Italy)0:01:04.101
23Philip Nielsen (Denmark)0:01:04.609
DSQTomas Babek (Czech Republic)Row 23 - Cell 2
DSQGiddeon Massie (United States Of America)Row 24 - Cell 2
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Women's scratch race final
1Pascale Jeuland (France)
2Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso (Cuba)
3Belinda Goss (Australia)
4Kelly Druyts (Belgium)
5Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic)
6Malgorzata Wojtyra (Poland)
7Ah Reum Na (Korea)
8Tatsiana Sharakova (Belarus)
9Julie Leth (Denmark)
10Xiao Juan Diao (Hong Kong, China)
11Elissavet Chantzi (Greece)
12Vera Koedooder (Netherlands)
13Paola Munoz (Chile)
14Andrea Wolfer (Switzerland)
15Rushlee Buchanan (New Zealand)
16Elke Gebhardt (Germany)
17Alzbeta Pavlendova (Slovakia)
18Iryna Shpylyova (Ukraine)
19Ana Usabiaga Balerdi (Spain)
20Anna Blyth (Great Britain)
21Svetlana Pauliukaite (Lithuania)
22Giorgia Bronzini (Italy)
DNFEvgeniya Romanyuta (Russian Federation)
DNFShelley Evans (United States Of America)
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Women's Sprint 1/4 Final Heat 1
1Suang Guo (China)0:00:11.3220:0:11.353
2Olga Panarina (Belarus)Row 1 - Cell 2 Row 1 - Cell 3
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Women's Sprint 1/4 Final Heat 2
1Anna Meares (Australia)0:00:11.5870:0:11.704
2Kristina Vogel (Germany)Row 1 - Cell 2 0:0:11.982
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Women's Sprint 1/4 Final Heat 3
1Victoria Pendleton (Great Britain)0:00:11.7550:0:11.843
2Victoria Baranova (Russian Federation)Row 1 - Cell 2 Row 1 - Cell 3
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Women's Sprint 1/4 Final Heat 4
1Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania)0:00:11.6710:0:15.102
2Kaarle Mcculloch (Australia)Row 1 - Cell 2 Row 1 - Cell 3

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