Both the men's and women's team's sprint combinations missed out on the medal round, but they both established new best times at the Olympic Velodrome test event, and Manawatu's Simon van Velthooven has also taken out the overall World Cup title in the kilo time trial.

The 22-year-old finished third in the time trial, clocking 1:02.048 in the event won by German Stefan Nimke in 1:01.211. It was sufficient to give van Velthooven the overall World Cup honours ahead of Nimke following a second placing in Cali, victory at Beijing and third in the London test event.

He was only 16th fastest in the opening lap but was the fastest in the field over the middle 500m and came home solidly. "The aim was to get out on the track and get a feel for it," van Velthooven said. "Every track is different and for sprinters especially the feel is really important.

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