text: CYCLING - WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS . MANCHESTER , England 1996-08-29 Results at the world track cycling championships on Thursday : Individual pursuit semifinals ( over 4,000 metres ) : Chris Boardman ( Britain ) 4:15.006 beat Alexei Markov ( Russia ) 4:23.029 Andrea Collinelli ( Italy ) 4:16.141 beat Francis Moreau ( France ) 4:19.665 Moreau takes bronze medal as faster losing semifinalist . Final : Chris Boardman ( Britain ) 4:11.114 ( world record ) beat Andrea Collinelli ( Italy ) 4:20.341 Olympic sprint championship ( three-man teams ) : 1. Australia ( Darryn Hill , Shane Kelly , Gary Neiwand ) 44.804 seconds 2. Germany ( Jens Fiedler , Michael Hubner , Soren Lausberg ) 45.455 3. France ( Laurent Gane , Florian Rousseau , Herve Thuet ) 45.810 4. Greece ( Dimitrios Georgalis , Georgios Chimonetos , Lampros Vasilopoulos ) 46.538 Women 's world sprint championship quarter-finals ( best of three matches ) : Magali Faure ( France ) beat Kathrin Freitag ( Germany ) two matches to nil ( with times for the last 200 metres of 11.833 seconds and 12.033 seconds ) Felicia Ballanger ( France ) beat Oksana Grichina ( Russia ) 2-0 , ( 11.776 / 12.442 ) Tanya Dubnicoff ( Canada ) beat Michelle Ferris ( Australia ) 2-0 , ( 12.211 / 12.208 ) Annett Neumann ( Germany ) beat Galina Enioukhina ( Russia ) 2-0 , ( 12.434 / 12.177).