Bradley Wiggins and Great Britain's team pursuit squad (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Great Britian's team pursuit squad at the European Track Championships (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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Great Britian's women's team pursuit squad had the fastest qualifying time (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain) (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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Great Britian's team pursuit squad at the European Track Championships (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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Great Britian's team pursuit squad at the European Track Championships (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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Bradley Wiggins leads Great Britain's team pursuit squad (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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Poland setting the fourth fastest time (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain) (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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Russia was second in the women's qualifying (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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The Italian team was the third fastest in qualifying (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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France was third fastest in the men's qualifying (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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The Swiss team was the second fastest of the men (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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Russia was fourth fastest in the men's qualifying (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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(Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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Training for the European Track Championships in Grenchen (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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The 2015 European Track Championships in Grenchen, Switzerland (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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The Italians (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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France team pursuit (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Italians (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Great Britain's women's team pursuit squad were also the falsest in the qualifying round (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Italy's women's team pursuit squad (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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The Italians start their team pursuit (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Italy (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Great Britain men's team pursuit have the fastest qualifying time (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Great Britain start their team pursuit at European Track Championships (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain) (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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The Italian team in the team pursuit (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Bradley Wiggins leads Great Britain's men's team pursuit squad at European Track Championships (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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The Italian team pursuit squad training for the European Track Championships (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Italy's Simone Consonni (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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The 2015 European Track Championships in Grenchen, Switzerland (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Elia Viviani (Italy) (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Migle Marozaite (Lithuania) (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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The Italian team pursuit squad training for the European Track Championships (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Elia Viviani (Italy) training for the team pursuit at the European Track Championships (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Elia Viviani (Italy) (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Michele Scartezzini (Italy) (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Italy's Simone Consonni training for the team pursuit (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Lucas Liss (Germany) (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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The Italians warm-up for the team pursuit event (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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The Italian team pursuit squad warming up ahead of the start of the European Track Championships (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Training for the European Track Championships in Grenchen (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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Training for the European Track Championships in Grenchen (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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Great Britain's team pursuit squad training for the European Track Championships (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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Training for the European Track Championships in Grenchen (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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Great Britain training for the European Track Championships in Grenchen (Image credit: Guy Swarbrick)
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The 2015 European Track Championships in Grenchen, Switzerland (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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The 2015 European Track Championships in Grenchen, Switzerland (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Poland warming up for the European Track Championships (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Kristina Vogel (Germany) (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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The Italian team pursuit team (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Marco Villa timing the Italian team pursuit squad during warm ups (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Michael D'Almeida (France) (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
The European Track Championships kicked off on Wednesday with the women's and men's team pursuit qualifying rounds at the velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland.
Great Britain's women's team pursuit squad proved to be the fastest in the qualifying round, posting 4:21.089 for the 4,000-metre event. The team included Laura Trott, Elinor Barker, Ciara Horne and Joanna Rowsell.
Great Britain beat runner-up team Russia; Evgenia Romanyuta, Gulnaz Badykova, Tamara Balabolina and Aleksandra Goncharova, who covered the distance in 4:30.664. Third-placed team, Italy included Simona Frapporti, Beatrice Bartelloni, Tatiana Guderzo and Silvia Valsecchi.
Wiggins leads Great Britain's men's team pursuit to fastest qualifying time
Bradley Wiggins led the Great Britain men's team pursuit squad to the fastest qualifying time at the kick off to the European Track Championships held in Grenchen. The men's team, which also included Steven Burke, Owain Doull and Andrew Tennant, rode the 4000 metres in 3:57.277.
They beat runner-up team Switzerland; Silvan Dillier, Stefan Kueng, Frank Pasche and Thery Schir, who rode the distance in 3:59.026. While France's Thomas Boudat, Bryan Coquard, Damien Gaudin and Julien Morice were third in the qualifying round.
The women's and men's team pursuit first round will be held in the morning session on Thursday and the finals will be held in the afternoon session.
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