Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com - 16/04/2017 - Cycling - 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Day 5 - Hong Kong Velodrome, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong - Great Britain's Elinor Barker celebrates after winning Gold in the Women's Points Race.
And Barker now has a third world title following team pursuit wins in 2013 and 2014.
Michaela Drummond, Racquel Sheath, Rushlee Buchanan and Jaime Nielsen produced two outstanding rides to claim bronze in the women's event after only qualifying sixth fastest.
Cure won the elimination race, the penultimate discipline, as Archibald was fifth.
"I just think it's a really great place to be in and it means we have this big group of riders that we can train with right up until Tokyo and it means we'll have the best of the best when we get there". The opening 1:08 for the first 1000m was followed by splits of 1:03, 1:04 and 1:03.
In the final, Mitchell opened with a 17.2-second first lap, Webster pushed to a half-second buffer and Dawkins brought them home to win by 0.3 seconds.
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In the 1/8 finals O'Brien took on German Kristina Vogel, bronze medalist past year, who stopped the Canadian's advancement.
Thursday's win ends a decade-long drought at the track championships for Awang, who said the victory was down to a relentless training regime and unbridled self-belief. "There's no hiding, but again, that just pushes us on to be even better athletes". "We knew we had to give it in the last part of the ride and we knew there could be gaps forming, and we had to make sure we were in it to take the lead back". Absolutely disgusting. I was lucky, I suppose, in that Sarah Hammer and I had that gap to the rest so I didn't need to score in the final sprint.
"It was a bit emotional".
"And now we are competing with the top riders in the world".
The US team of Kelly Catlin, Chloe Dygert, Jennifer Valente and the veteran Sarah Hammer charged into an early lead, but Australia recovered by the 2,500 metre mark and the teams raced to the finish with neither able to stay in front.
Members of the United States team compete during the final of the women's team pursuit event at the Hong Kong Velodrome during the Track Cycling World Championships in Hong Kong on April 13, 2017. But Barker had to chase as D'Hoore crossed the line first.
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