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17-1-2009 Malaysia steals the show on day 2 The Malaysian team showed that it has become truly world class by scoring double golds on the second day of competition at the Beijing World Cup.

A day after suffering the disappointment of missing out on the finals of the men's team sprint, the big-legged boys rallied to win the men's kilometre time trial, which went to 24-year-old Rizal Tisin of Malaysia, and the keirin with Azizul Hasni Awang.

Awang, who won the keirin at the Melbourne World Cup, now sits atop the World Cup rankings with four points over Frenchman Francois Pervis. Pervis did not contest the keirin, and instead took part in the kilo where he took second place to Tisin.

The victory of Tisin would have been no sup rise - he did set a new Asian record at the Victorian championships in Australia last month - had he not suffered a crash while training on his road bike last week. The New Straits Times reported that Tisin injured his hand in the wreck and had trouble pulling up on the bars.

Tisin did not come close to matching the 1:02.095 he set in Australia, but the 1:02.268 was good enough for gold by nearly four tenths of a second over Pervis. Poland's Kamil Kuczynski took bronze over World Cup leader Wen Hao Li (China).

Kiwis add gold, silver to tally

The men in black took another gold medal thanks to Hayden Godfrey, who made an eight-man breakaway that lapped the field in the scratch race and then won the sprint to seal the victory. Great Britain's Chris Newton added a silver to his gold from the points race by also making the winning move and taking third in the finale behind Tim Veldt (Netherlands) who was a lap down.

Poland got its second bronze medal of the evening thanks to the attentive riding of Rafal Ratajczyk, who snuck in ahead of Italy's Elia Viviani to take the final podium spot. The placing earned Ratajczyk third overall in the World Cup rankings behind Tim Mertens (Belgium) and Zach Bell (Canada).

The Kiwis had to be content with silver in the men's team pursuit after setting the fastest time by far in the qualifying round. Sam Bewley, Peter Latham, Marc Ryan and Jesse Sergent put in a solid 4:02.79 in the qualifiers, almost four seconds faster than the Australian Team Toshiba. But Leigh Howard, Glenn O'Shea, Rohan Dennis and Mark Jamieson rallied back to win the gold medal final with a strong 4:01.995.

The two teams went neck and neck, with the Aussies leading by half a second at the first kilometre, and the Kiwis pulling within a tenth of a second at the midpoint. During the third kilometre, the New Zealand team pulled ahead, but the Toshiba team had too much power and finished off the final kilometre strong to take the win by nearly one second.

The Russian squad Lokomotiv took the bronze medal handily over the German team, setting a 4:07.9 to the German's 4:11.78.

Krupeckaite adds two, China too

Women's sprint winner Simona Krupeckaite of Lithuania took her second gold medal of the meet in the 500m time trial, upsetting World Cup leader Jinjie Gong of China. Krupeckaite set a 33.834 to seal the win with a time that rivals any recorded since the retirement of World Record holder Anna Meares from the now non-Olympic discipline.

The Lithuanian doubled up with a silver in the women's team sprint along with teammate Gintare Gaivenyte. The pair were overtaken by the Dutch pair Willy Kanis and Yvonne Hijgenaar.

China added a bronze to go along with Gong's silver by besting France in the bronze medal final.

In the women's points race, China was again on the medal stand with a surprising silver medal from Cui Wang who finished just two points shy of Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic).

The pair escaped the field ahead of the third sprint and succeeded in lapping the field to gain 20 points, which was enough to secure first and second ahead of Italian Giorgia Bronzini, who, somewhat appropriately, took bronze by winning two sprints and placing second in one. She could be consoled with the fact that her result vaulted her into the white World Cup leader's jersey for the discipline.

Australians Belinda Goss and Rochelle Gilmore were consistent in the sprints but could only manage fourth and fifth ahead of a strong fight from American Shelley Olds in sixth.