Australia continued to cut a swathe through the competition at the Commonwealth Games Thursday with teenager Megan Dunn picking up her second gold medal in as many days in the 10km scratch race, gold for Shane Perkins, and victory in the team pursuit.
Australia won the battle of the track cycling superpowers with a lap to spare when they smashed their own Commonwealth record to take gold in the men's 4000m team pursuit.
The team coasted past New Zealand in a time of 3min 05.476sec at the Indira Gandhi velodrome.
Jack Bobridge, Michael Freiberg, Michael Hepburn and Dale Parker had a psychological edge going into the final after setting a new record in qualifying.
Bobridge, 21, had already won the individual pursuit gold medal on Wednesday, edging out silver medallist Jesse Sergent, the top rider in the New Zealand team, having set a Games record in qualifying.
Afterwards, Australia celebrated a one-two in the men's sprint cycling final at the Commonwealth Games here on Thursday with Shane Perkins edging out Scott Sunderland for the gold.
Sam Webster of New Zealand took the bronze.
Dunn bides time
Dunn, 19, who won the women's 25km points race on Wednesday, bided her time behind her teammate Ashlee Ankudinoff before hitting the front with less than ten laps to go and obliterating the field.
"I wasn't keen for it to come down to a sprint finish -- I saw a chance to go for it," she said. "In a scratch race you can have 20 different race plans at the start.
"It is such an unpredictable type of race that I did not expect to win and I wondered whether I would have the legs after yesterday."
Veteran New Zealand rider Joanne Kiesanowski, 31, took silver with England's Anna Blyth, 22, winning bronze.
Ankudinoff, a member of the winning Team Pursuit team at the UCI Track World Championships in Denmark, had been hotly-tipped to pick up a medal.
She looked good setting the pace at the front of the pack but pulled out with a quarter of the race to go.
Scotland's Kate Cullen, a bronze medallist in the points race in Melbourne 2006, could only manage eighth while Tara Alice Whitten of Canada, a 25km points race bronze medallist on Wednesday, finished 14th over the shorter distance.
Belinda Goss, 26, Australia, reigning national 25km points race champion, and third in the scratch race at the 2010 world championships, was pushed out in the final laps to end the race fifth behind Wales's Alex Greenfield.
