Hoy claims third gold

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Four-time Olympic champion Hoy anchored his team to gold in 43.423 seconds after strong performances from Jamie Staff and Ross Edgar.

The young British trio of Jason Kenny, Matt Crampton and David Daniell were 0.395secs behind as the host nation again demonstrated their strength in depth.

It was Hoy's third and Britain's eighth gold of the opening World Cup event of the season.

The 33-year-old from Edinburgh won the keirin on day one and sprint on day two, leading Crampton and Kenny in a British 1-2-3 in track cycling's Blue Riband event.

A ninth gold soon followed as Britain's men's team pursuit squad of Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Steven Burke and Andy Tennant caught Spain after little more than half of the four kilometres final.

They continued, spurred on by the partisan support and targeting the world record Clancy, Thomas, Bradley Wiggins and Paul Manning set in winning gold in Beijing last year.

Britain stopped the clock after three minutes 54.395 seconds, just 1.081secs down on the Beijing best of 3mins 53.314 for the second quickest time in history.

World champions Lizzie Armitstead, Joanna Rowsell and Wendy Houvenaghel clocked a sensational world record in the women's team pursuit.

The trio, resplendent in their world champion jerseys, stopped the clock at three minutes 21.875 seconds to win Great Britain's 10th gold of the meeting.