Summary Australia's Cure earned the bronze medal, beating Ukrainian Ganna Solovei in the third-place race.
CALI, Colombia (AFP) - Great Britain s Joanna Rowsell won her first individual world title Friday, beating defending champion Sarah Hammer in the women s individual pursuit at the track cycling World Championships.
A day after she won team pursuit gold at the Cali velodrome, the 25-year-old Rowsell clocked a personal best of 3min 30.318sec for the win, in which she led from start to finish.
Hammer, who set the world record in the 3,000m event of 3:22.269 at altitude in Aguascalientes, Mexico, in 2010, had posted the top qualifying time -- almost a second faster than Roswell s.
However, she settled for silver with a time of 3:31.535, unable to earn a record-equalling sixth career world title in the event.
That would have tied her with compatriot Rebecca Twigg -- who won six individual pursuit world golds from 1982-1995 -- and Russian Tamara Garkuchina -- who won six from 1967-1974.
Australia s Amy Cure earned the bronze medal, beating Ukrainian Ganna Solovei in the third-place race.
France s Francois Pervis retained his one kilometer time trial world title on Friday, clocking 59.385sec for his second gold in as many days.
Pervis, who won the men s keirin gold on Thursday, will try to make it a world title treble when the individual sprint begins on Saturday.
Germany s Joachim Eilers finished second in 59.984 and New Zealand s Simon van Velthooven earned bronze in 1:00.518.
Colombia s Edwin Avila gave the home crowd something to cheer with a victory in the men s 40 kilometer points race ahead of New Zealand s Thomas Scully and Spain s Eloy Teruel.
Reigning champion Rebecca James of Britain and Australia s 2012 Olympic champion Anna Meares were both eliminated in the quarter-finals of the women s sprint.
Jessica Varnish defeated James 2-0 in an all-British quarter-final, while Meares fell to China s Zhong Tianshi.
Germany s Kristina Vogel and China s Lin Jinhong also reached the semi-finals, the first time two Chinese women have reached the final four in the event at worlds.
