alt BRITAIN'S Edward Clancy, Thomas Geraint, Paul Manning and Bradley Wiggins recorded an emphatic win over Ukraine in the men's team pursuit at the World Track Championships in Palma De Mallorca tonight.

 

Chris Hoy added to the golden haul with success in the men's keirin with Ross Edgar taking bronze.

 
It was Britain's third and fourth golds of the competition and a second for Wiggins, who landed the individual pursuit 24 hours earlier.
 
"That's probably one of the most pleasing world championships I've ever won," Wiggins said.
 
"The individual is one thing but I can't express how much of a team we've been over the last few months.
 
"It has been a fantastic team effort right across the board. The big thing for me was the mental side of it coming back after the individual win because it takes so much out of you mentally."
 
Britain, silver medallists at the last World Championships and winners in 2005, were the only team to break the four-minute barrier in qualifying for the 4-km race, riding at a speed of over 60-kph.
 
But they bettered that in the final, blasting away from the start and almost running down the Ukrainians to post a national record of 3min 57.468sec.
 
Denmark took the bronze medal after a comfortable win over New Zealand in the third-fourth place raceoff.
 
Manning said the British team were clocking the sort of times that would bring success at next year's Olympics.
 
"We've taken it up a level and have to be consistently capable of doing those times because we are going to have to go quicker and quicker through to Beijing and there are more guys waiting in the locker room to replace us if anything goes wrong," he said. 
 
Hoy, the 31-year-old Scot, who won the kilometre time-trial in last year's event and at the 2004 Athens Olympics, unleashed a burst for the line on the final corner to overhaul leader Mickael Bourgain of France.

 

"I'm totally shocked and delighted," Hoy said.

 

"It was way beyond my expectations. It's a cliche but I'm over the moon."

 

He was overtaken by Bourgain on the final lap but then attacked again.

 

"I had a bit left for the finish," said Hoy.

 

"It was a bit unexpected. I'm a novice to this event and I used my strength to go hard at the finish."

 

He was overtaken by Bourgain on the final lap but then attacked again.

 

"I had a bit left for the finish," said Hoy. "It was a bit unexpected. I'm a novice to this event and I used my strength to go hard at the finish."

 

Rebecca Romero earlier clinched a silver medal in the women's pursuit.

 

Romero, who put in a strong display in qualifying, could not get the better of defending champion Sarah Hammer of the USA in Friday's final, finishing in 3:33.409 with Hammer clocking 3:30.213.