Australia took the bronze medal in a race-off against Greece beating their opponents by 0.171 seconds.

The team sprint competition is a three lap race in which the first two cyclists lead out the third to sprint home on the final lap.

Earlier Queally had shown no ill effects from his individual heroics in the 1km time trial as he anchored Britain's trio in the heats.

In the first round Queally took the team home in 44.659 seconds, a British record, after Scots Chris Hoy and Craig MacLean had led the trio round the first two laps.

In the second round the trio set another British record time of 44.517 racing against Slovakia and qualified in the second fastest time to reach the final against favourites France.

'Tired'

"I struggled to sleep last night and I've been on a high since yesterday," said Queally.

"I just wanted to do my best for Chris and Craig. I knew they were in very good form and I didn't want to let them down.

"I was feeling a bit tired today but I tried my very hardest. It was not quite good enough to beat the French but we've got a silver and we're very pleased with that."

"The lead up to the final has been great, especially with Jason winning yesterday. That inspired us," said McLean.

"Last year was our first major championship medal (silver in the World Championships) and that was very special but this is just incredible."

Queally's highly successful games are now finished but McLean and Hoy both have individual events to concentrate on before they can celebrate.

More British success

And Britain's cycling success continued when Yvonne McGregor qualified for the bronze medal race-off in the women's individual pursuit.

The 39-year-old from Wilmslow, who finished fourth in Atlanta, qualified for the semi-finals in the third fastest qualifying time.

The former Commonwealth Games gold medallist then faced France's Marion Clignet but was beaten by 2.165 seconds.

McGregor will face New Zealand's Sarah Ulmer in Monday's race-off after the Kiwi was caught by Leontien Zijlaard of the Netherlands in the other semi.

Zijlaard continued racing after catching Ulmer and set a new world record of 3.30.816.