The Australian men's sprint trio of Leigh Hoffman, Matthew Richardson and Matt Glaetzer have raced to gold at the world track cycling championships.
Glaetzer capitalised on the dazzling work of Leigh Hoffman and Matt Richardson to edge Wednesday's final against an all-conquering Olympic-winning Dutch trio who'd won the previous three titles.
Glaetzer, now 30, was in that 2012 Melbourne team and now as the self-styled "old dog" of Australia's 15-strong team he was quite as inspirational, just holding on to win by the merest margin — 0.043 seconds as he crossed the line in 41.600. Cornish, 22, had earlier understudied outstandingly for Glaetzer as the Aussies finished quickest in qualifying, before the team that took Commonwealth Games gold in August joined forces for the first round and final.In the final, South Australian Hoffman opened up a half-second lead after the blistering 16.949sec first lap, with Richardson giving Glaetzer a 0.31sec advantage to protect on the last circuit.
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