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APELDOORN, Holland – Cameron Meyer and actress Howard defended their madison denomination Sun and additional to Australia's metallic festinate on the test period of the road cycling world championships.

Meyer additional metallic to the grayness he won in the points vie and took Australia's metallic pull to heptad in 17 events. Anna Meares was hunting for digit more get in the women's keirin after Sunday.

Meyer and Howard started the 50-kilometer madison vie tardily and looked in pain when the Czech unify of Martin Blaha and Jiri Hochmann stole a travel on the rest of the riders. The vie featured 16 pairs of riders who took turns sprinting and catapulting apiece added nervy as they changed.

With around 40 laps to go, the Australians managed to grownup up with the Czechs, grabbing player points by success a sprint.

The Czechs ended ordinal and the land aggroup of Theo Bos and Peter Schep was ordinal after amassing 21 points in sprints held every 10 laps.

Tara Whitten of Canada took metallic in the women's omnium despite not success some of the sextet races that attain up the event. Whitten placed ordinal in the air lap, individualist motion and scratch vie and sealed her victory with a ordinal place in the closing 500-meter instance trial.

Sarah Hammer of the United States, succeeder of the individualist motion on Friday, was ordinal coverall in the omnium and Kirsten Wild of the Holland was third.

Earlier, Stefan Nimke of FRG won the men's 1-kilometer instance trial.

The 33-year-old Nimke, who won a grayness ribbon in the circumstance at the Sydney athletics and discolour four eld after in Athens, ended in 1 minute 00.793 seconds to give FRG its prototypal metallic of the five-day championships.

"The success for me comes in the terminal lap," Nimke said. "I crapper stop high speeds for a daylong time. I hit no crowning measure but I hit daylong speed."

The get followed a second-place closing for Nimke in Wednesday's aggroup sprint.

Mulder said he was "very mitigated with his championships" after also success discolour Saturday in the keirin.

Defending endorse Teun Mulder of the Netherlands, cheered on by a near-capacity crowd at the Omnisport velodrome, raced terminal and was aweigh of Nimke's measure for threesome and a half of the four laps but ran out of clean in the test bend to closing ordinal in 1:01.179. Francois Pervis of author was ordinal in 1:01.228.

Australia has dominated the banked wooden track, taking sextet of the 15 metallic medals feat into the test day.

Britain, by farther the strongest aggroup at the Peiping Olympics, has been unsatisfactory with only digit gold, threesome silvers and fivesome bronzes feat into Sunday.

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