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More velodrome gold for Australia

Anna Meares and Kaarle McCulloch have won the women's team sprint to claim the gold medal at the Delhi Games.

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Australian Anna Meares has won her second gold medal of the Commonwealth Games and the cycling team its fifth, teaming with Kaarle McCulloch to win the women's team sprint on Wednesday.

It's Australia's fifth gold medal from five track cycling events so far in Delhi.

Meares and McCulloch clocked 33.811 seconds to beat Scotland's Jenny Davis and Charline Joiner at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex.

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Canada's Monique Sullivan and Tara Whitten won the bronze medal in their ride-off with India.

Earlier, Australian cyclist Megan Dunn won gold in the women's points race.

Dunn, 19, of Dubbo, beat New Zealand's Lauren Ellis who took silver.

Reigning world champion Tara Whitten of Canada won bronze.


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