Day Two of the Manchester World Cup saw Britain pick up a massive haul of eight medals, three of which were Gold!
Victoria Pendleton smashed her own British Record in the 500m TT to win Gold from Yvonne Hijgenaar in a time of 34.070s, which in comparison to her previous PB of 34.614s is an outstanding result
Britain's Anna Blyth also picked up a medal with a strong ride giving her a time of 34.866s and this was enough to give her Bronze
It wasn't long before Blyth added another medal to her palmares when she teamed up with the Junior BMX World Champion Shanaze Reade to ride the Women's Team Sprint and record a fantastic time of 33.802s to reach the final against Dutch pair Willy Kanis and Yvonne Hijgenaar
500m TT Silver medallist Yvonne Hijgenaar (Left), Gold went to Victoria Pendleton (Centre), Bronze medallist Anna Blyth (Right)
However after a false start from the team from the Netherlands which saw Shanaze complete a full lap unaware of the situation, the Brits were unable to overhaul their opponents. Reade was obviously tired from the 'false start' but seening as this was her debut on the track, shouldn't be disappointed with Silver
Women's Team Sprint Podium
In the Men's Team Pursuit the British quartet of Ed Clancy, Paul Manning, Bradley Wiggins and Rob Hayles set a blistering time of 3m 59.876s in qualifiying eclipsing the rest of the field
Consequently they went into the final against Russia as overwhelming favourites, and again where on form catching the Russian team who had crumbled under the pressure and were reduced to two riders
All goes to show that the new Endurance team setup of Shane Sutton and Matt Parker as coaches is paying dividends and the team look on course for a World Championship title in Majorca next month, as well as a possible World Record in the process
Finishing in the Bronze medal position were the British B Team, 100% Me which consisted of promising Junior riders Ben Swift, Jonny Bellis, Steve Burke and Andy Tennant. The quartet produced two riders that showed experience beyond their years and took a well deserved Bronze medal.
Pursuit Silver medallist Rebecca Romero (Left), Gold went to Wendy Houvenaghel (Centre), Bronze medallist Alison Shanks (Right)
In the Women's Individual Pursuit qualification Cornwall's Wendy Houvenhagel beat Yvonne McGregor's 10-year record to
reach the women's pursuit final against Rebecca Romero.
Both women's times would have won gold at last year's world championships.
In the final Wendy showed why she has won the World Cup for two years running as she produced a dominate performance to claim Gold in a time of 3m 35.294s to Romero's 3m 39.143s. New Zealand's Alison Shanks took the Bronze
In other events Serguei Klimov of Russia beat Ioannis Tamouridis of Greece and Argentina's Juan Esteban Curuchet to take the Men's Points race Gold
The Men's Sprint competition saw World Champion Theo Bos qualify fastest then crash in his first round sprint with an amateurish mistake causing him to miss the rest of the competition whilst he had cautionary X-Rays in a nearby hospital
The Semi-Final's saw Chris Hoy line up against France's Mickael Bourgain and Arnaud Tournant face Japanese rider Kiyofumi Nagai.
Tournant and Hoy easily made it through to the final, in which Tournant showed some form of old to outclass Hoy in both heats and take the Gold, whereas Bourgain easily took the Bronze from Nagai
Sprint Silver medallist Chris Hoy (Left), Gold went to Arnaud Tournant (Centre), Bronze medallist Mickael Bourgain (Right)
The event continues until Sunday night, results from Sunday can be found here:
