Jess Varnish wins women's team sprint silver in Mexico

Pitted against Kristina Vogel and Miriam Welte of Germany in the final qualification heat, Varnish and team-mate Becky James went inside China's world record set in London 2012 – but it was Germany who qualified fastest with a world-record breaking 32.153.

Great Britain were left trailing with a 32.400 to set up a repeat performance in the final. It was unlikely that a deficit of three-tenths would be overcome in the final and so it proved, with Vogel and Welte joining their male counterparts and taking their second successive gold of the World Cup campaign.

James and Varnish stopped the clock at 32.602 taking silver, with bronze going to Russia, narrowly beating China.

Elsewhere, Great Britain's women's team pursuit squad once again smashed the world record and took gold in Mexico, shaving three seconds off their Manchester record.

Katie Archibald, on her debut, replaced Laura Trott and together with Dani King, Joanna Rowsell and Elinor Barker, broke the world record twice on the way to their second successive gold of the campaign.

Qualifying saw Great Britain post a 4:19.115, half a second faster than the record set in Manchester a month ago, the thin air of the high-altitude Mexican venue no doubt contributing to the effort. With Canada qualifying second in 4:19.629, a gripping final looked to be on the cards.

However the British quartet went on to stun the opposition with a 4:16.552 in the final, smashing their own record once again, Canada were unable to back up their qualifying effort and took silver with Australia took bronze against the USA.