Great Britain's Joanna Rowsell, Dani King and Laura Trott set a new world record in the team pursuit to advance as fastest qualifiers on day two of the Track Cycling World Championships.

The Hisense Arena in Melbourne has seen a number of broken world records in the past and the three Brits made the most of the fast track by clocking a new one to power through qualifying.

Britain watched on as Australia's Annette Edmondson, Melissa Hoskins and Josephine Tomic lowered the world record to 3m 17.053s - more than a second quicker than the time Britain set in February.

However, Rowsell, King and Trott responded with a faster run to finish in 3m 16.850s to set up another team pursuit duel between the World Championship hosts and the London Olympics hosts at the Hisense Arena.

Britain's men won the 4km bout in a world record on the opening day.