Britain's Rebecca James celebrates after winning the gold in the women's track cycling sprint event, during the Track Cycling World Championships in Minsk , Belarus, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Britain's Rebecca James celebrates after winning the gold in the women's track cycling sprint event, during the Track Cycling World Championships in Minsk , Belarus, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Britain's Rebecca James celebrates after winning the gold in the women's track cycling sprint event, during the Track Cycling World Championships in Minsk , Belarus, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
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Gold medalist, Britain's Rebecca James, center, is flanked by silver winner Germany's Kristina Vogel, left, and bronze winner Hong Kong Wai Sze Lee during the awarding ceremony at the the Women's Track Sprint event during the Track Cycling World Championships in Minsk, Belarus, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Britain's Rebecca James,right, races to take gold and Germany's Kristina Vogel race to take silver in the women's sprint event, during the Track Cycling World Championships in Minsk , Belarus, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
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New Zealand's Aaron Gate celebrates after winning the track cycling men's Omnium event, during the Track Cycling World Championships in Minsk , Belarus, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
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Jarmila Machacova of Czech Republic celebrates after winning the track cycling Women's Points Race event during the Track Cycling World Championships in Minsk , Belarus, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
James win women's sprint title at track worlds
MINSK, Belarus (AP) —
Rebecca James of Britain edged
Kristina Vogel of Germany by a wheel in the decisive third race to win the women's
sprint final at the track cycling world championships on Saturday.
Aaron Gate of New Zealand clocked the fastest time in the time trial to win the men's omnium, while Jarmila Machacova of the Czech Republic won the women's points race ahead of Sofia Arreola Navarro of Mexico and Giorgia Bronzini of Italy.
James, a four-time junior world champion who won two bronze medals already this week, lost the first race in the best-of-three final but came back to win her first major title.
Wai Sze Lee of Hong Kong dominated Guo Shuang of China in two races for bronze.
Gate finished the final heat of the omnium but his opponent, defending champion Glenn O'Shea of Australia, had a mechanical problem and could not finish. The two were tied on 17 points after five of six events.
O'Shea clocked the fifth best time in the rerun and finished third overall with 22 points, one point behind second-place Lasse Norman Nahsen of Denmark.
Machacova won the 25-kilometer, 100-lap women's points race. Arreola Navarro was four points behind the Czech with one sprint left. She chased Anastasiya Chulokova of Russia to the finish but missed out by a wheel, earned only three points and had to settle for the silver medal. Bronzini was eight points behind Machacova.
"It was my dream to become a world champion," said Machacova, the runner-up two years ago. "And today my dream came true. It's amazing."
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