GB women win World track gold

Great Britain won their first gold medal of the 2013 World Track Cycling Championships as their women's team pursuit trio beat Australia in Belarus. Olympic champions Laura Trott and Dani King teamed up with A-Level student Elinor Barker to defend the title. They clocked three minutes 18.140 seconds to beat Australia's Annette Edmondson, Ashlee Ankudinoff and Melissa Hoskins by 1.773 secs. $render("advert","advert-companion","21539749"); $render("advert-post-script-load"); James sprin to time trial bronze require( { baseUrl: "http://static.bbci.co.uk/sport/ui/3.0.5/js/desktop/" }, ["empswitch"], function(empswitch) { empswitch.init(); } ); Becky James won 500m time trial bronze to pick up her second medal in Minsk. And Ireland's Martyn Irvine won gold in the scratch race and silver in the individual pursuit to become the first man from his country to win a medal since 1897. "I'm pretty shocked," said James, who also competes in the individual sprint competition on Friday and Saturday and Sunday's keirin on Sunday. "I've come in with good form, but 500 has always been a hard event and I didn't expect to come away with a medal. "It was a bit of an agonising wait towards the end, when everyone was going a bit slower. To come away with a medal, I'm so happy." But there was disappointment for Britain in the men's team sprint as Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny and Kian Emadi missed out on a medal after only finishing sixth in qualifying for the men's team sprint and had to watch Germany beat New Zealand for gold.