Great Britain’s Ed Clancy, Pete Kennaugh, Steven Burke and Geraint Thomas broke the world record to win team pursuit gold at the Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne on this day in 2012.
The quartet, in which Burke had replaced qualification rider Andy Tennant, unexpectedly bettered the previous world record of three minutes 53.314secs set by Britain in winning Olympic gold at Beijing 2008 when they came home in 3mins 53.295secs to see off the challenge of hosts Australia.
