Rio 2016 round-up: Team GB women break team pursuit track cycling record
BRITAIN'S female team pursuit cyclists last night sent out an ominous warning to their Olympic rivals by breaking the world record in qualifying.
The first week of the 2016 Rio Olympics is coming to a close and a multitude of incredible sporting world records have already been broken.
Here Guinness World Records shines a spotlight on some of the amazing feats that have been achieved so far.
The quartet of Laura Trott, Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker and Jo Rowsell-Shand enjoyed a stunning start to their Olympic campaign by laying down a significant marker to the nine-nation field.
The defending Olympic champions set a blistering pace of 4:13.260 at the Rio Olympic Velodrome. It was 0.423secs quicker than Australia's mark set in February 2015.
"That was a fantastic performance," said Sir Chris Hoy.
"This was a team performance. Everyone did their job incredibly well. They were all very smooth and they never looked under pressure at any stage. A world record in qualifying - it is very hard to explain how impressive that is in these conditions."
Britain qualified fastest for tomorrow's first round. The USA team were second with 4:14.286. Australia were third with 4:19.059, while Canada were fourth in 4:19.599.
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