Australia picked up its fifth gold medal after narrowly beating Britain in the men's pursuit and Teun Mulder of the Netherlands won the men's 1-kilometer time trial on the third day of the competition.

Jeuland sprinted home the scratch final ahead of Cuba's Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso and bronze medalist Belinda Goss of Australia. Goss was involved in one of the crashes but got back on her bicycle.

Shelley Evans of the US and Russia's Evgeniya Romanyuta also fell in that crash and didn't finish the race.

“It happened so quickly. My adrenalin was pumping but I just got back on the bike and started cycling,” Goss said.

“Luckily I wasn't hurt. Winning the bronze is better than nothing.” Jack Bobridge, Dennis Rohan, Michael Hepburn and Cameron Meyer finished the men's 4-kilometer pursuit in 3 minutes and 55.654 seconds, less than two tenths of a second faster than the British racers.

New Zealand beat last year's world champion Denmark in the bronze medal race.

Earlier Friday, Mulder of the Netherlands won the men's time trial, picking up his country's first gold medal at the Super Arena Velodrome in Ballerup.

Mulder finished in 1 minute and 0.341 seconds, more than half a second faster than France's Michael d'Almeida.

Francois Pervis, also of France, got the bronze medal, while last year's world champion Stefan Nimke of Germany was fourth.

“I didn't expect to go so fast. I was very surprised but am very satisfied with my performance,” said Mulder, who had an average speed of 59.660 kph.

Britain's Victoria Pendleton easily made it through to Saturday's final in the women's sprint, where she will face Australia's Anne Meares who already has collected two gold medals at the championships.