Training gets under way early on day three at the BGZ Arena Velodrome in Pruszkow

Victoria Pendleton is fastest in qualifying - just 0.14 sec off a world record - as she begins her defence of her sprint title

A new-look GB pursuit team of Ed Clancy, Stephen Burke, Jonny Bellis and Peter Kennaugh cannot match their Olympic champion predecessors and are third in qualifying

Britain's Jessica Varnish qualifies 20th in the sprint but falls in the second round to Olga Panarina of Belarus

Pendleton plays cat-and-mouse with Yvonne Hijgenaar, beating the Dutchwoman to advance to the quarter finals

The mid-afternoon break in the action allows the riders extra training time before the evening finals

Germany's Stefan Nimke breaks Sir Chris Hoy's 1km world best at sea level to win the kilo time trial; British teenager David Daniell is seventh

A day after winning team pursuit gold, Lizzie Armitstead looks strong in the early stages of the scratch race

Armitstead is knocked from her bike with eight laps still to go and admits afterwards to being disorientated by the crash

Armitstead gets back into contention for the final sprint but just can't quite catch Cuba's Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso (right)

Armistead hurts her hip and right arm but her second medal in as many days brings a smile back to her face

Great Britain are denied a team pursuit medal for the first time in 10 years, while Denmark win the event for the first time ever