Sir Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish won gold in the madison on the final day of the Track Cycling World Championships in London.
The pair first won the title in the relay event in Manchester in 2008 and reprised their partnership at the Lee Valley VeloPark to great effect. Cavendish now has three world titles in the discipline, after also winning the 2005 title with Rob Hayles in Los Angeles.
Wiggins took off his helmet to salute the crowd in celebration and Cavendish raised his arms aloft as ‘The Boys are Back in Town’ was played at the velodrome as the crowd toasted Great Britain’s fifth gold of the competition.
Cavendish crashed inside the final 10 laps with Britain in the lead and Wiggins in the race. But the pair held on for victory.
Earlier in the day, Laura Trott won her second gold medal of the Championships with victory in the women’s omnium, but Jason Kenny’s Keirin bid ended in disappointment.
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Trott, who won the non-Olympic scratch race on Thursday, enhanced her advantage with a mature display in the concluding points race to claim Britain’s fourth gold of the five-day competition at the Lee Valley VeloPark where she won two Olympic gold medals in 2012.
The 23-year-old now has seven world titles, three individual crowns and a first omnium world title since 2012, when she went on to win Olympic gold. And her current form bodes well for her assault on Rio in August.
Trott finished with 201 points and France’s Laurie Berthon claimed silver on the last of 10 sprints in the points race to beat Sarah Hammer of the United States by one point. Berthon finished with 183 points to Hammer’s 182.
Kenny, the sprint champion on Saturday and Trott’s fiance, sat up on the final lap of the men’s Keirin, won by Germany’s Joachim Eilers, with an apparent mechanical problem.
He completed the race, finishing sixth as Ed Dawkins of New Zealand took silver and Awang Azizulhasni of Malaysia bronze.
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Trott has long targeted Sir Chris Hoy’s British record haul of six Olympic gold medals and moved within four of his World Championship tally of 11 with the victory.
“I love the number seven - I can retire happy now,” Trott said. “I might be able to do four in one go, because I could do the omnium, the team pursuit, the points race and the scratch.
“I’m just so happy. It’s taken me four years to get a gold medal back in the omnium. It was just incredible.”