Britain's Chris Hoy produced a phenomenal late surge to overtake three riders and win the men's keirin title on the final day of the World Track Cycling championships Sunday. With less than a quarter of a lap remaining, Hoy overtook countryman Jason Kenny and swooped between leaders Max Levy of Germany and New Zealander Simon Van Velthooven with inches to spare to claim the inside of the track and the gold medal, punching the air in celebration before climbing the barrier to celebrate with his wife Sara. “Normally I would have gone around the outside and just put my foot down, but I hesitated too long, had one last chance,” Hoy said. “I've never done that before in my life — go up the inside — and it paid off.” Levy took the silver and Kenny won the bronze after Van Velthooven was relegated by officials at Melbourne's Hisense Arena. Belgium won the final event of the meet, the men's madison, with Britain and Australia taking the silver and bronze, respectively. Australia's Anna Meares earlier set a world record to reclaim the women's time trials title. Meares sprinted the 500 meters in a time of 33.010 seconds to eclipse the previous mark of 33.296 set by Simona Krupeckaite of Lithuania at Pruszkow, Poland in 2009. Miriam Welte of Germany finished second in 33.626, with Britain's Jessica Varnish third in 33.999. Meares, who previously won the world time trials title in 2004, 2007 and 2010, earned her second winner's rainbow jersey of this meet after defending her keirin title Saturday. She won bronze in Friday's sprint. Alison Shanks of New Zealand won the women's individual pursuit title by beating Britain's Wendy Houvenaghel by more than two seconds. Shanks produced a time of 3:30.199 to comfortably beat Houvenaghel on 3:32.350. Ashlee Ankudinoff beat Amy Cure for bronze in an all-Australian third-place race. Shanks first won the title in 2009 at Pruszkow before conceding to world record holder Sarah Hammer of the US in 2010 and 2011. “Once you've had that feeling once, you want it again even more,” Shanks said. “To come out and be a world champion again, it's super exciting.”
