Olympic Games 2024: Australian cycling quartet claim gold in men’s team pursuit final over Great Britain

Roger Vaughan
AAP
Australia have beaten fierce rivals Great Britain in a pulsating men’s team pursuit final to win the Olympic gold medal for the first time in 20 years.
Australia have beaten fierce rivals Great Britain in a pulsating men’s team pursuit final to win the Olympic gold medal for the first time in 20 years. Credit: Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images

Australia have beaten fierce rivals Great Britain to win the men’s team pursuit gold medal.

The combination of Olympic medallists Sam Welsford and Kelland O’Brien, plus debutants Oliver Bleddyn and Conor Leahy, clocked three minutes 42.067 seconds to beat the British in Wednesday night’s decider.

It was a pulsating final, but two of the British riders touched wheels on the last lap and nearly crashed, blowing out the margin.

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Australia broke world record in Tuesday’s first round at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome outside Paris, after also qualifying fastest.

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