Australia's Ryan Bayley defeated world champion Theo Bos of the Netherlands to take gold in the track cycling sprint at the Olympic Games yesterday.
22-year-old Bayley downed Bos with an exhilarating final lap sprint to catch the Dutchman metres before the finish line.
German Rene Wolff won the bronze medal ride-off from Frenchman Laurent Gane.
The closest Australia had come to a men's sprint gold was with Gary Niewand at Barcelona in 1992 behind German Jens Fiedler. It was Australia's fourth cycling gold medal in Athens and continues their best-ever showing in cycling at an Olympics.
Sara Carrigan won the women's road race and on the track Anna Meares won the women's 500m time trial and Australia's men won the team pursuit.
Filed by Johnny Proby
