(L-R) Great Britain's Jamie Staff, Jason Kenny and Chris Hoy compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games men's track cycling team sprint qualifying at the Laoshan Velodrome in Beijing on August 15, 2008. Scotland's Chris Hoy anchored Britain's three-man sprint team to the fastest time in qualifying for the first round of the competition here Friday.[Agencies]

BEIJING--Britain beat France in the final to win the cycling track team sprint team gold medal at the Olympic Games here on Friday.

Britain clocked lap 2-3 in 43.128 seconds against France's 43.651.

Germany clocked 44.014 to beat Australia, which timed 44.022, for the bronze medal.