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Wendy Houvenaghel (GBR) made the long trip to Melbourne and it paid off. Houvenaghel was pushed right to the final 1000m of the 3000m event by Alison Shanks (NZL) the 2008 World champion. Houvenaghel, had to dig deep and having gone out hard finished strongly to win gold.

In the ride for Bronze Josie Tomic (AUS), started fast, but the Ukrainian, Leysa Kalitovska pulled back with a few laps remaining.

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Wendy Houvenaghel (GBR) dominated the pursuit event, "I have had a good couple of years where I have established myself in the women's individual and team pursuiting events. The strength is there and it just keeps getting better. It is very encouraging and nice to see," said Houvenaghel.

Alison Shanks (NZL) was riding in the World Championship jersey for the first time and was asked if she felt a greater level of pressure as a result of this. "I don't thinks so. Pursuiting is about putting out there what you have on the day. What a great race from Wendy today. It was so much fun. We are a lot further ahead , it is a long season ahead with Worlds and then the Commonweath Games, which are important to us Kwis," said Shanks.

Shanks was asked if it was possible to get to the World record set by compatriot Sarah Ulmer in Athens, "It must be possible, Sarah set the time. The conditions would have to be perfect to do it though. who know what might happen in the future," she added.

Leysa Kalitovska (UKR) has improved over the last two years. Her Olympic campaign was successful and the world cup events so far have been great. "I am so happy, I am getting better each year. I hope to improve over the next six months to get a Gold medal in Copenhagen," said Kalitovska.

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Results

Position	Name		Country/Team	Time	Km/Hr
GOLD	HOUVENAGHEL	Wendy	GBR	3:33.771	50.521
SILVER	SHANKS	Alison	NZL	3:34.133	50.435
BRONZE	KALITOVSKA	Lesya	UKR	3:38.047	49.530
4	TOMIC	Josephine	AUS	3:42.056	48.636

5	VAN DIJK	Eleonora	NED
6	TREBAITE	Ausrine	LTU
7	SANDIG	Madeleine	GER
8	SCHNIDER	Pascale	SUI
9	D'HOORE	Jolien	BEL
10	GEIST	Kimberly	USA
11	KELLY	Helen	RDN
12	KONDEL	Victoria	RUS
13	LEE	Min Hye	KOR
14	WONG	Wan Yiu Jamie	HKG
15	MARTINEZ	Adriana	MEX

World Cup Standings

Position	Name		Country/Team	Manchester	Melbourne	Total
1	HOUVENAGHEL	Wendy	GBR	12	12	24
2	TOMIC	Josephine	AUS	10	7	17
3	SHANKS	Alison	NZL	10	10	20
4	TREBAITE	Ausrine	LTU	4	5	9
5	KALITOVSKA	Lesya	UKR	8	8	16
6	KOEDOODER	Vera	NED	8	8	16
7	OLABERRIA DORRONSORO	Leire	ESP	7	7	14
8	VAN DIJK	Eleonora	NED	6	6	12
9	KOZLIKOVA	Lada	CZE	6	6	12
10	JOOS	Verena	GER	5	5	10
11	SANDIG	Madeleine	GER	4	4	8
12	SCHNIDER	Pascale	SUI	3	3	6
13	CHANTZI	Elissavet	GRE	3	3	6
14	D'HOORE	Jolien	BEL	2	2	4
15	KONDEL	Victoria	RUS	2	2	4
16	GEIST	Kimberly	USA	1	1	2
17	JASINSKA	Edyta	POL	1	1	2

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