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Aussie cyclist breaks her own world record

Anna Meares was in the action again as Australia enjoyed another golden night at the track cycling world championships in Copenhagen.

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Anna Meares was in the action again as Australia enjoyed another golden night at the track cycling world championships in Copenhagen.

Meares and Kaarle McCulloch broke their own world record for a second time in the space of a few hours on Thursday (Friday AEDT) to defend their team sprint title in 32.923sec from China.

Lithuania beat Britain to claim the bronze medal.

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"That's something that we've actually thrown up in the air between the two of us for a little while, somewhat jokingly, that we'd ride in a 32 but a 14.1 last lap by Kaarle, that was special and I think that was what got us the record tonight," Meares said.

Meares, who regained the 500m time trial crown the previous night, and McCulloch rode 33.037 in qualifying on the second day of competition, breaking the world mark of 33.149 they set on the way to winning the event at last year's championships in Poland.

The Australian women's endurance riders then took over, with Ashlee Ankudinoff, Sarah Kent and Josephine Tomic winning gold in the team pursuit ahead of Britain.

New Zealand claimed bitter-sweet bronze when Rushlee Buchanan, Lauren Ellis and Alison Shanks set a world record of 3min21.552sec in the race for third place against the US.

The Australians looked set to threaten the Kiwi team's new mark in the ride for gold and silver but faded slightly and while they also went under Britain's previous world record of 3:21.875 they finished in 3:21.748.

Tomic said: "I don't think we've ever ridden that smooth and that well. We came together as a team and to win is pretty amazing. We've worked really really hard for this and it just shows that hard work really does pay off."

In the men's individual pursuit, Australia's Jack Bobridge had to settle for bronze against Russian Alexander Serov after New Zealander Jesse Sergent qualified fastest to set up a gold medal contest with American Taylor Phinney, who went on to defend his title.

Australia's other gold medal came on the opening night of competition when Cameron Meyer won the men's points race.


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