By Scott Dougal, PA International

Huw Pritchard won Wales' first cycling medal of the Commonwealth Games with silver while Englishman Tony Gibb won bronze in the 20km scratch race at the Manchester velodrome.

But both men were eclipsed by winner Graeme Brown, who only minutes earlier had won gold and set a new world record as part of the Australian team that beat England's men in the 4000m team pursuit final.

The trio - along with New Zealand's Lee Vertongen - were in a four-man breakaway that lapped the bunch, thereby creating a four-way race-off over the last six laps for the medal placings.

And it was the Kiwi who lost out.

Pritchard was understandably delighted to get his country on the cycling medals' board for the first time in the Commonwealth Games since 1970.

"I wouldn't say I was expecting it but that was what I was going for," he said.

"The last Games in Kuala Lumpur, I got in the front group but didn't get a medal and I've been thinking about it ever since."

Pritchard had been an early pace-setter with Vertongen, Brown and England's Lee Buckle.

"I didn't want to get stuck at the back," added Pritchard.

Buckle faded as Gibb - whose event this is - took over but the Harrow rider lost the initiative to Brown and the Welshman jockeyed for position and had to settle for third place.

South Africa's Jean-Pierre van Zyl won the sprint for the minor places in what was a disappointing night for Scotland's riders who barely threatened.

Ross Muir was the best-placed Scot in 12th.