Scotland's Katie Archibald was last night celebrating a world record as she and her three Team GB team-mates made a stunning start to the Olympic track cycling at Rio 2016.
After Phil Hindes, Jason Kenny and Callum Skinner set an Olympic record in qualifying for the three-man, three-lap team sprint – the day's only medal event – Joanna Rowsell Shand, Laura Trott, Elinor Barker and Archibald set a world record in the four-rider, four-kilometres team pursuit.
The quartet finished in four minutes 13.260 seconds to qualify for Saturday's first round, which is effectively a semi-final.
Britain will meet Canada and must merely beat them to advance to the final. Canada qualified in 4mins 19.599sec, more than six seconds behind Britain.
The United States will meet Australia in the second semi-final after qualifying in 4:14.286.
Australia, who set the world record in Paris in February 2015 but crashed in training earlier this week, finished in 4:19.059.
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