(Sports Network) - Great Britain won the men's team pursuit competition on Monday for its fifth cycling gold medal of the Beijing Olympics. Ed Clancy, Paul Manning, Geraint Thomas and Bradley Wiggins combined to win their country's ninth cycling medal overall in Beijing -- seven more than the next country.

After setting a world record in qualifying on Sunday, the British team lowered it again by finishing the four-kilometer race in 3 minutes, 53.314 seconds. That broke the record they set Sunday by nearly two seconds.

Denmark was more than six seconds slower, taking the silver, while New Zealand beat Australia in the bronze medal race.

Also on Monday, Marianne Vos of the Netherlands won the women's points race.

The 2008 world champion, Vos collected 30 total points in the 100 laps around Laoshan Velodrome. Cuba's Yoanka Gonzalez won the silver medal with 18 points, while Spain's Leire Olaberria claimed bronze at 13 points.

Lesya Kalitovska also won 13 points, but Olaberria's finish in the final sprint (second place) gave her the medal.

Vos won the first of 10 intermediate sprints in the race -- they occur every 10 laps -- then finished second in the next one and third in the fifth sprint, garnering her 10 points.

She claimed 20 points for gaining a lap on the field following the sixth sprint -- a bonus that ended up vaulting her into first place. No other rider in the race lapped the field.

"I was just able to gain a lap at the right moment," said Vos. "Then I tried to recover."

Russia's Olga Slyusareva, the 2004 gold medalist in Athens, finished in eighth place with eight points.

American Sarah Hammer was among three riders who didn't finish the race after being involved in an early crash.



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