(BEIJING, December 8) -- Three Olympic qualifying events -- women's points race, men's team pursuit, and men's Keirin -- and four non-Olympic events -- women's 500-meter time trial, women's team sprint, men's one-kilometer time trial, and men's scratch race -- were contested on the second day of Round No. 2 of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics in Beijing.

At the newly built Laoshan Velodrome in western Beijing, Great Britain won the Olympic berths for men's team pursuit and men's Keirin events, while the Dutch took the other Olympic qualifying event.

In the men's team pursuit, Edward Clancy, Stephen Cummings, Thomas Geraint, and Paul Manning of Great Britain beat the New Zealanders in the final to qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games. In the race for third place, the Danes did not finish the laps, thus rendering the bronze to their counterparts the Dutch.

Reigning world champion Chris Hoy of Great Britain won another Olympic spot for his country as he snatched the gold medal in the men's Keirin event. The silver medal went to Arnaud Tournant of France and the bronze to Teun Mulder of the Netherlands.

In the women's 20km points race, Dutch cyclist Marianne Vos of Team DSB, who clinched her first gold from the women's scratch event on Friday, was crowned again with a total score of 12 points. Even though Cuba's Yoanka Gonzalez Perez shared the same score, Vos had a preferable finish order that gave her the first position in the final placing, in accordance with the competition rules. The reigning world champion Katherine Bates came in third place while China's medal contender Yan Li scored zero points to rank in the 20th position.