Olympics-Cycling-Dutch men break team sprint world record

Paris 2024 Olympics - Track Cycling - Men's Team Sprint, First Round - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France - August 06, 2024. Harrie Lavreysen of Netherlands, Roy van den Berg of Netherlands and Jeffrey Hoogland of Netherlands in action during heat 1. REUTERS/Paul Childs

SAINT QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (Reuters) - The Netherlands set a new world record in the men's team sprint as they set up a gold-medal showdown against Britain later on Tuesday at the National Velodrome.

Roy van der Berg, Harrie Lavreysen and Jeffrey Hoogland rocketed around three-lap race in 41.191 seconds -- beating their previous world best of 41.225.

Britain's trio of Ed Lowe, Hamish Turnbull and Jack Carlin also impressed in their first-round heat with a time of 41.819.

Australia and France will contest the bronze medal.

(Reporting by Martyn Herman, editing by Ed Osmond)