Cycling: Queen Victoria leads procession in British gold rush

Victoria Pendleton led the way as Great Britain won all six gold medals contested at the World Cup Classics series here at the Manchester Velodrome last night, to add to the five they won on Friday.

Pendleton, who had taken gold in the women's sprint on Friday, confirmed her status as the best sprinter in the world as she won the 500m time trial in a time of 34.256sec, two-tenths of a second quicker than second-placed Jinjie Gong of China.

Lizzie Armitstead, 19, outsprinted Canada's Tara Whitten to take the scratch race, adding to her gold in the points race, with her fellow Briton Alexandra Greenfield taking bronze. The Yorkshire rider could make it a hat-trick in today's team pursuit.

Jason Kenny, the sprint silver medallist behind Chris Hoy in Beijing, also won gold here in the Scot's absence, skidding across the line on his backside after a crash on the final straight. The 20-year-old and Australian opponent Shane Perkins clipped in the second race of the best-of-three final after Kenny had won the first race. Matthew Crampton, who had been beaten by Kenny in the semi-final, won his bronze-medal ride-off.

In the men's team pursuit, Rob Hayles, Stephen Burke, Ed Clancy and Geraint Thomas eased into the final with the fastest qualifying time.

They soon had Denmark in their sights in the final and despite Hayles pulling off the train, they caught their opponents with two laps remaining to win in fine style.

Clancy, who had won the individual pursuit on Friday, said: "We've all been larging it up a bit so that's just an indication of things to come."

Bradley Wiggins, who along with Clancy, Thomas and the now retired Paul Manning had won the Olympic gold, was saving himself for today's Madison event.

Anna Blyth and the 17-year-old Jess Varnish faced a slightly closer finish to their team sprint final, crossing the line in 34.352sec, two-hundredths of a second quicker than Germany. Chris Newton dominated the points race.

Performance director Dave Brailsford described 18-year-old David Daniell as "the new Chris Hoy" after he earned his first senior gold medal in the kilometre time-trial, finishing inside the one minute, two seconds barrier. Jan van Eijden, the German former world champion now working as a coach for British Cycling, said: "He's very laidback but when you put him on a bike, he's really switched on."