Team GB win gold in velodrome as medal rush continues at Olympics in Rio
By Andy Charles
Last Updated: 12/08/16 12:12pm
Team GB had a fourth gold medal to celebrate on day six of the Olympic Games in Rio as the track cycling schedule kicked off in victorious fashion.
It was the third successive victory for Great Britain in the event and Kenny's fourth career gold.
There was more to celebrate for Team GB in the velodrome as the women's team pursuit squad - Joanna Rowsell-Shand, Laura Trott, Elinor Barker and Katie Archibald - set a new world record in qualifying.
They will be back in action on Saturday against Canada for a place in the final.
Sir Bradley Wiggins, Owain Doull, Ed Clancy and Steven Burke were equally impressive in posting the fastest time in qualification for the men's team pursuit.
They will face fourth-placed New Zealand, who were a full four seconds slower, on Friday for a place in the final.
Away from the velodrome, Britain's men took silver in the inaugural rugby sevens tournament.
They beat South Africa 7-5 to reach the final but were comprehensively outplayed by Fiji in the final, with the Pacific Islanders claiming their first Olympic medal of any kind by winning 43-7.
The London 2012 runners-up led for much of their run in the final but faded late on and lost by less than half-a-second to Ladislav and Peter Skantar of Slovakia.
Grainger secured her fifth Olympic medal but was left to rue a late collapse as the British pairing was passed by Poland in the last 200m.
Andy Murray overcame a scare to move into the quarter-finals of the men's tennis singles but Britain's leading lady Johanna Konta lost her quarter-final against Germany's Angelique Kerber.
Charlotte Dujardin is in pole position after the opening day of dressage competition, leading the individual event on Valegro and moving Great Britain up to second behind Germany in the team standings.
Michael Phelps won his 22nd Olympic Games gold medal with a dominant victory in the men's 200m individual medley.
And Britain's Joshua Buatsi claimed a stunning win in the boxing tournament when he knocked down third seed Elshod Rasulov three times to move into the light-heavyweight quarter-finals.
There was also history in the men's golf event where Britain's Justin Rose became the first player to card a hole-in-one.
Rose found the cup at the short fourth hole and his four-under round of 67 left him four shots off leader Marcus Fraser of Australia.
