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Four world titles were awarded on the final day in Hong Kong,
with France winning two, and Germany and Britain each claiming
one.
Thomas and Kneisky, who lost out to Bradley Wiggins and Mark
Cavendish in London last year, displayed incredible endurance to
go one further this time around, beating Meyer and Scotson in
the 200-lap men's Madison by four points to take gold.
Belgium's Moreno De Pauw and Kenny De Ketele took bronze.
Thomas claimed his second gold medal in this year's world
championships, having won the omnium title on Saturday, while
Kneisky now has four world titles.
A late surge from Britain's Barker, a team pursuit Olympic
champion, saw her snatch the points race title from United
States' Sarah Hammer. Kirsten Wild of the Netherlands won the
bronze medal, two laps in arrears.
Along with her points race victory, Barker also won scratch and
Madison silver.
"I'm incredibly happy," Barker told the BBC. "Until the last lap
it was looking like another silver. I'm so happy it was a gold."
Germany's two-time Olympic champion Kristina Vogel did just
about enough to retain her keirin title, and in the process win
her ninth world title, finishing 0.061 seconds quicker than
Colombia's Martha Bayona. Nicky Degrendele of Belgium won
bronze.
In the men's 1km time trial, France's world record holder
Francois Pervis won the event for the fourth time, finishing
comfortably ahead of Czech Republic's Tomas Babek and Frenchman
Quentin Lafargue, who tied for silver to the thousandth of a
second.
Australia finished top of the medal table with three golds and
11 medals in total. France's final-day heroics saw them leapfrog
Russia to finish second. France, who claimed five medals in
total, and Russia both won three golds.
This is only the second time the world championship has been
held in Asia, with 11 countries winning world titles.
(Reporting by Shravanth Vijayakumar in Bengaluru, editing by Tom
Hayward and Pritha Sarkar)
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