Hoy wins keirin in British double at World Cup

SYDNEY—Chris Hoy won the men’s keirin event as Great Britain cyclists claimed two gold medals on the second night of the UCI World Cup track meet here Saturday.
Hoy, the reigning keirin and kilometre time trial world champion, downed compatriot Ross Edgar and world sprint champion Theo Boss of the Netherlands to take gold.
Great Britain followed up with gold in the men’s team pursuit, beating New Zealand. The British team of Edward Clancy, Stephen Cummings, Chris Newton and individual pursuit world champion Bradley Wiggins won in a time of four minutes 01.196 seconds over the 4000 metres distance.
Team Toshiba took the bronze medal. Frenchman Michael D’Almeida captured the kilo time trial in 1:02.588 from China’s Li Wen Hao (1:03.575) and Ukraine’s Yevgen Bolibrukh (1:03.629).
Germany’s Roger Kluge won the men’s scratch race over 15km from Canada’s Zachary Bell and Milan Kadlec of the Czech Republic. Australia’s world champion and world record holder Anna Meares celebrated her stellar year with a farewell victory in the women’s time trial.
Meares, the only woman to have gone under 34 seconds in the two-lap event, clocked 33.869 seconds to take the gold ahead of Cuba’s Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (34.058) and Dutchwoman Willy Kanis (34.141).
The 24-year-old, who is also the Olympic champion in the event, will now turn her focus to racing the sprint after the 500m race she owns was dropped from next year’s Beijing Games program.
Italy’s Giorgia Bronzini won the women’s points race with 11 points from China’s Li Yan (10) and Czech Republic’s Jarmila Machacova (9).
The Dutch combination of Yvonne Hijgenaar and Willy Kanis won the women’s team spint in 33.958 seconds from Australians, Kaarle McCulloch and Kerrie Meares (34.759), with France (Sandie Clair/Virginie Cueff) taking the bronze.—Agencies