Rio Olympics 2016: Laura Trott and Great Britain storm to gold in women’s team pursuit by breaking own world record

LAURA TROTT and Co smashed their own world record as they helped Great Britain storm to an ninth gold medal of the Games in the women’s cycling team pursuit final.

And it means Trott became the first-ever British women to win THREE Olympic golds.

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Trott, Joanna Rowsell-Shand, Elinor Barker and Katie Archibald followed in the footsteps of Bradley Wiggins and the boys by scooping another winners' medal to go with their gongs from London 2012.

The GB riders set a world record in qualifying by pinching USA's record and they rubbed salt in the wounds by again getting the better of the Yanks in the final with a time of 4:10:236.

And it meant that Trott moved past Rebecca Adlington and Dame Kelly Holmes' tally of two Olympic golds.

And she can now make it four in the omnium - meaning her and fiance Jason Kenny could have TEN cycling golds between them by the end of the Games.

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Trott said: “Winning a third gold medal was something I wanted to achieve and to do it alongside these three girls is just incredible.

“It kind of feels weird for me - it almost feels like I shouldn’t have achieved it in a way.

“I still feel like that young girl that started down at Welwyn Wheelers, so to hear you say that feels weird and it will take a while to settle in.

“It feels incredible, you try not to think about that coming into a race, but I was getting people tweet me and having articles written about it.

“I thought it would be a really nice achievement if I could go out and do that - so to cross the line and to win, the feeling I got was incredible. I couldn't be prouder of us girls right now.

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“The feeling we were getting, it was like this machine was coming together.

"To come away with a time of 4.10 was honestly incredible.

“Everyone was giving it absolutely 100 per cent to get to that finish line first, and honestly I couldn’t be prouder right now.”

“I looked up and I was like: ‘That can’t say World Record’.”

“We broke the world record in training so I guess we knew a world record was on the cards in qualifying - but it almost felt unreal, I looked up and I thought ‘No!’

Canada earlier scooped bronze by beating New Zealand.