Britain's world title haul reached nine on Saturday after another superb display at the Track Cycling World Championships. Three more gold medals continued Britain's dominance of all the prestigious pursuit and sprint races, leaving only minor events to Belarus, France, Cuba and the Netherlands. Victoria Pendleton claimed the host nation's first title of the day with victory in the women's sprint to take her second gold medal of the championships. The 27-year-old beat Simona Krupeckaite of Lithuania 2-0 in the three-ride final while Jennie Reed of the United States claimed bronze, beating Shouang Guo of China 2-1 in the rideoff. Pendleton won the women's team sprint with Shanaze Reade on Thursday and could take a third women's sprint title in the keirin event on Sunday. Britain's eighth gold came from Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins in the men's Madison race. The British pair snatched victory by pulling back a lap in the final minutes of the 50km race and then defended their total of 16 points in the final sprint. Germany finished second with 13 points and Denmark were third with 11. Chris Hoy continued Britain's haul in the men's keirin title, beating Teun Mulder of the Netherlands and Greece's Christos Volikakis in a sprint to the line to repeat his success of 2007. Hoy won the title in the men's sprint on Friday and a silver medal in Wednesday's men's team sprint. Having won Olympic gold at the one km time trial in Athens four years ago, Hoy has successfully switched to sprinting after the removal of the time trial from the Beijing Olympic schedule. Four more world titles will be contested on the fifth and final day of the world – men's five-discipline omnium, women's keirin, women's scratch race and men's one km time trial. __
