MELBOURNE, Australia - World record times were set in the first two finals of the world track cycling championships Wednesday by the British men in the team pursuit and Germany in the womens team sprint. Olympic champion Britain claimed the first gold medal at Melbournes Hisense Arena, edging out defending champ Australia in what many expect to be a preview of the London Olympic gold-medal race. Edward Clancy, Peter Kennaugh, Steven Burke and Geraint Thomas led from the start to finish in a new world mark of 3 minutes, 53.295 seconds, eclipsing the 3:53.314 the team set to win gold at the Beijing Olympics. Australias Jack Bobridge, Glenn OShea, Rohan Dennis and Michael Hepburn finished in 3:53.401. New Zealand (3:57.592) won the bronze medal after beating Russia (3:59.273). British Cycling performance director Dave Brailsford said it was an ideal result ahead of the London Games. "If you were going to do it in any way possible, if you had a clean sheet of paper, how can we do this? -- this would be the way to do it," Brailsford said. "But theres nothing in it and well resume battle (at London) in 16 weeks." Australian trio Shane Perkins, Scott Sunderland and Matthew Glaetzer won the team sprint in 42.266 seconds to beat Gregory Bauge, Kevin Sireau and Michael DAlmeida of France (42.267) by literally a millisecond. Australia originally qualified fourth-fastest and was set to ride against Chris Hoys Olympic champion British team for the bronze medal, but Britain and defending champion Germany -- the second-fastest team -- joined the United States and Greece as disqualifications for incorrect changeovers during qualifying. "We came here wanting to do a personal-best time, we did that in the qualifying (43.512)," said Perkins, who was hit by a car while riding on Sunday and sprained his wrist. "Then obviously we heard we were in the gold ride-off, our energy and excitement went up another level. "We knew we had the ability, we knew we had to bring our times down and we did that." New Zealand beat Japan for the bronze medal. The Canadian team of Calgarys Travis Smith, Joseph Veloce of Fonthill, Ont., and Hugo Barrette of Sherbrooke, Que., finished 11th in the final Olympic qualifying race to miss securing a spot at the London Games. "It was quite disappointing," Barrette said. "Personally, my ride went quite well. I cant ask for much better, I am just starting to race internationally. "It doesnt matter what your individual time is, at the end its the teams time that matters, and today we werent fast enough." Ben Swift claimed Britains second gold of the day when he held off a late surge by South Africas Nolan Hoffman to win the mens 15-kilometre scratch race. Wim Stroetinga of the Netherlands finished third. 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