Wiggins takes Gold in Olympic Test

Bradley Wiggins got his Olympic preparations off to a great start by claiming the Individual Pursuit Gold medal at the Olympic Test Event in Beijing in the which is also the second round of the World Cup. Russia's Alexander Serov beat Taylor Phinney (USA) to rank in the third place.

World and Olympic Champion Bradley Wiggins defeated Volodymyr Dyudya of Ukraine to win the gold medal. In a close contest against the Sydney gold medal winner, Wiggins recorded a time of 4.25.316 to the 4.25.847 of his rival in a see-sawing battle.

Wiggins went out the quickest but then was slower than his rival over the next two kilometre splits before again coming home quickly, over a second quicker over the last kilometre, to win by almost half a second. With the times being significantly slower than those on other tracks, Wiggins was over 10 seconds slower than his personal best.

The Men's Individual Pursuit takes place on 16th August 2008.