Cycling

Chris Hoy gave Britain its first cycling medal of the Athens Olympics yesterday when he won the one-km time trial in a new Games record.

Hoy, a silver medallist in the sprint event in Sydney, completed the four laps of the velodrome in one minute 00.711 seconds, eclipsing the old Olympic record set by his team-mate Jason Queally in Sydney.

Frenchman Arnaud Tournant, four times a time trial world champion on the track, took silver in 1:00.896 while Germany's Stefan Nimke took bronze in 1:01.186.

In the women's 500-metre cycling time trial, Australia's Anna Meares set a new world record to win a race she might well have missed had it not been for an injury to her older sister.

Meares' sister Kerrie had been favourite to take Australia's berth in the race but complications arising from a fall she had in Russia two years ago meant she had to have surgery which ruled her out of the Games.

Anna Meares started training in earnest for the Games this year and took gold in the Athens velodrome in 33.952 seconds, becoming the first woman to go under 34 seconds.