Cycling: World track championships results

World track championships results on Thursday (finals only):

Men

Pursuit

1st place

Michael Hepburn (AUS) 4:16.733 bt Martyn Irvine (IRL) 4:24.528

3rd place

Stefan Kueng (SUI) 4:22.841 bt Alexander Morgan (AUS) 4:26.800

Team sprint

1st place

Germany 43.495 (Rene Enders, Stefan Botticher, Maximilian Levy) bt New Zealand 43.544 (Ethan Mitchell, Sam Webster, Edward Dawkins)

3rd place

France 43.798 (Julien Palma, Francois Pervis, Michael d'Almeida) bt Australia 44.005 (Scott Sunderland, Mitchell Bullen, Matthew Glaetzer)

Scratch

1. Martyn Irvine (IRL) 17:23. (51.748 km/h)

2. Andreas Muller (AUT)

3. Luke Davison (AUS)

4. Tim Veldt (NED)

5. Owain Doull (GBR)

6. Morgan Kneisky (FRA)

7. Theo Reinhardt (GER)

8. Moreno De Pauw (BEL)

9. Jiri Hochmann (CZE)

10. Kwok Ho Ting (HKG)

11. Albert Torres (ESP)

Women

500m

1. Sarah Lee Wai Sze (HKG) 33.973

2. Miriam Welte (GER) 33.996

3. Rebecca James (GBR) 34.133

4. Lisandra Guerra (CUB) 34.220

5. Anastasiia Voinova (RUS) 34.359

6. Kaarle McCulloch (AUS) 34.362

7. Tania Calvo (ESP) 34.389

8. Sandie Clair (FRA) 34.709

9. Elena Brejniva (RUS) 34.932

10. Daria Shmeleva (RUS) 35.303

11. Victoria Williamson (GBR) 35.409

12. Kayono Maeda (JPN) 35.495

Women

Team Pursuit

1st place

Great Britain 3:18.140 (Laura Trott, Dani King, Elinor Barker) bt Australia 3:19.913 (Annette Edmondson, Ashlee Ankudinoff, Melissa Hoskins)

3rd place

Canada 3:20.704 (Gillian Carleton, Jasmin Glaesser, Laura Brown) bt Poland 3:29.024 (Katarzyna Pawlowska, Malgorzata Wojtyra, Eugenia Bujak)

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