The first session of the 2007/08 Sydney World Cup bought disappointment for the Great British Cycling Team, with results clearly affected by the Summer's heavy training program

Women's Sprint

Highlight of the morning was Victoria Pendleton's 11.244s 200m TT qualification time for the Women's Sprint, although this was not enough to beat Willy Kanis (Netherlands) who recorded 11.160s to top the tables

Vicki, riding in her World Champion colours, then easily surpassed Germany's Miriam Welte in the first round before lining up against the mighty Natallia Tsylinskaya of Belarus in the Quarters

Then in all went wrong, as Tsylinskaya dominated Pendleton to take match one in 12.202s. Match two was given to Pendleton after Tsylinskaya was relegated, but moving into Match three at one all, Natallia clearly had the upper hand and went on to knock the World Champion out in 12.059s

As ever Britain's Anna Blyth put in a gutsy performance, recording 11.689s in the 200m TT, which was unfortunately not enough to qualify her for the rounds

Fastest qualifier Willy Kanis survived a scare from Momentum Cycling's Jennie Reed, eventually making it to the Semi's after three closely fought out heats.

In the other Quarter Finals, Aussie Anna Meares, riding in Team Toshiba colours, and France's Clara Sanchez produced a re-match of the World's Bronze medal ride off. Luckily for Sanchez she didn't crash this time, but the result still went to an impressive Meares who won in straight heats

Quarter Final 4 saw World Championship silver medallist Shuang Guo of China beat Lithuania's Simona Krupeckaite

Pendleton was clearly disappointed by her performance in the sprint

A clearly despondent Pendleton then finished last in the 5th-8th Final, losing out to Sanchez who beat Reed and Krupeckaite in 12.016s

The Semi-Finals produced some more exciting racing with Willy Kanis using her impressive form to beat Shuang Guo in three heats, winning the decider in 11.510s

The other Semi saw Meares face Tsylinskaya, and true to form it was another 'three heater' with Meares just doing enough to take heat one in 11.513s, Tsylinskaya fought back to dominate heat two and win in 11.697s.

Meares impressed against the mighty Tsylinskaya

Not one to be out muscled by the mighty Belarussian, Meares took the decider in 11.772s to move into the final against Kanis

In what has been one of the most exciting Women's Sprint competitions in a long time, we were treated to another spectacular sprint showdown in the final, as Meares and Kanis fought it out for World Cup Gold

Kanis took an incredibly close match one in 11.949s, before Meares battled back in true Australian fashion taking match two in 11.614s.

Willy Kanis, a major force for 2008

Tsylinskaya beat Guo in straight heats to take the Bronze medal

Then in the decider, Kanis demonstrated how much she has improved over the summer by keeping her head to beat Meares and take the Gold medal in 11.983s

Men's Team Sprint

Britain didn't fair too much better in the Men's Team Sprint as they only managed the fourth fastest time in Qualification.

The British trio of Matt Crampton, Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny set a time of 44.659s which was not enough to reach the final against Team Toshiba's Ryan Bayley, Dan Ellis and Shane Kelly.

Silver for the Germans in the Team Sprint

The Australian's shall instead faced Robert Forstemann, Matthias John and Stefan Nimke of www.radnet.de in the final and easily took the Gold medal by 0.2s from the Germans

Britain move into the Bronze Medal Ride-Off against the Cofidis trio of Didier Henriette, Kévin Sireau and Arnaud Tournant, but were unable to go sub 45, as they trundled round in 45.050s, leaving Cofidis to easily take the Bronze medal in 44.746s

Women's 3km Individual Pursuit

Katie Mactier of Australia recorded a time of 3m 38.379s to take victory in the Women's 3km Pursuit, beating the surprise fastest qualifier Vilija Sereikaite of Lithuania

Wendy did well against a strong field

Wendy Houvenaghel did well to reach the Bronze medal ride-off against former World TT Champion Karin Thürig of Switzerland.

Wendy set a qualification time of 3m 38.596s, which pushed World Champion Sarah Hammer of America into fifth place and out of the medal rides, however, she was unable to replicate this in the battle with Thürig as she recorded a time of 3m 40.754s just 0.3s slower than Thürig's 3m 40.300s

Britain's National Pursuit Champion Bex Romero was disappointed with her time of 3m 39.775s, which left her in 8th place

Men's 4km Individual Pursuit

In the Men's 4km Individual Pursuit, Volodymyr Dyudya of Ukraine easily beat Aussie Phillip Thuaux to claim the gold medal in a time of 4m 25.485s, five seconds faster than Thuaux' 4m 30.279s

Russia'a Alexander Serov, who is the defending World Cup champion took the Bronze medal after beating New Zealand's Marc Ryan

Britain's Steve Cummings recorded a time of 4m 28.014s to finish in fifth place

Men's 30km Points Race

In the Men's 30km Points Race, star of the Oceania Champs Greg Henderson of New Zealand took the Gold medal after a dominant performance saw him lap the field with Silver medallist Toni Tauler of Spain and Aussie Cam Meyer

However Henderson's greater points total from the sprints gave him the victory

Britain's only representative in the final was Chris Newton, who finished in 6th place, twenty points behind Henderson, on 11pts

Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso continued her dominance

Women's Scratch Race

Cuba's Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso continued her dominance of the Women's Scratch race, taking victory from Italy's Annalisa Cucinotta and Russia's Anastasiay Chulkova.

Britain's Kate Cullen riding in Scottish colours finished in 11th place