Olympics Rio 2016: USA break women’s team pursuit world record… Team GB snatch it back minutes later

Published 13/08/2016 at 15:17 GMT

The women’s team pursuit world record was broken twice in a matter of minutes after Great Britain eclipsed USA’s time in the heats.

Trott women's team pursuit

Image credit: Reuters

USA recorded a time of four minutes 12:282 seconds, only for GB to then clock four minutes 12.152 seconds to reclaim the world record.

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The two teams will go head-to-head in the final this evening (20:53 BST) in what promises to be a cracker as GB look to add to Saturday’s gold medal haul.

The quartet of Laura Trott, Joanna Rowsell-Shand, Elinor Barker and Katie Archibald overwhelmed Canada in the heats to reach the final.

Racing in their heat against Australia, the world champion Americans, led by Sarah Hammer, broke the record set by Britain in Thursday's qualifiers by a full second.

Expect the world record to be broken once more this evening, but which team will do so remains to be seen.

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