Germany win to claim third world record

Members of the Germany’s cycling team with their gold medals yesterday. Pic/AFP

Germany broke the world record for the third time in two days on Tuesday to crush Britain and win gold in the women's team pursuit.

The German quartet of Franziska Brausse, Lisa Brennauer, Lisa Klein and Mieke Kroeger set another world best time of 4min 04.242sec, which lowered the record they had set less than two hours earlier.

Britain took silver but were left trailing by more than six seconds in the final, their time of 4:10.607 a clear second best to the lightning quick Germans.

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