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Aussies top medal table at cycling worlds

Australian duo Cameron Meyer and Callum Scotson fell just short in their bid to claim gold in the men's madison at the world track cycling championships.

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Australia has topped the medal table with three golds and 11 medals in total at the world track cycling championships, although the team couldn't add anymore gold on the final day of action.

Cameron Meyer and Callum Scotson fell just short of claiming gold in the men's madison, going down by four points to French duo Benjamin Thomas and Morgan Kneisky as Belgium's Moreno De Pauw and Kenny De Ketele took bronze.

Four world titles were awarded on the final day in Hong Kong, with France winning two, and Germany and Britain each claiming one.

Thomas claimed his second gold medal in this year's world championships, having won the omnium title on Saturday, while Kneisky now has four world titles.

Germany's two-time Olympic champion Kristina Vogel did just about enough to retain her keirin title, and in the process win her ninth world title, finishing 0.061 seconds quicker than Colombia's Martha Bayona. Nicky Degrendele of Belgium won bronze.

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In the men's 1km time trial, France's world record holder Francois Pervis won the event for the fourth time, finishing comfortably ahead of Czech Republic's Tomas Babek and Frenchman Quentin Lafargue, who tied for silver to the thousandth of a second.


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