BOLTON superstar Jason Kenny progressed to the semi-finals of the Men's Individual Sprint this evening with victory over Australia's Pat Constable.
In the best-of-three race quarter-final clash at the velodrome in Rio, Kenny was again in supreme form.
He won the first race of his clash in 10.341secs and bettered that in race two with a winning time of 10.219s to avoid a third race.
It means the 28-year-old from Farnworth races again later tonight for a place in tomorrow's final and the chance to win a fifth Olympic gold medal.
Kenny helped Team GB to gold in the team sprint event on Thursday night - and a new Olympic record to boot - to add a Rio gold to the two he picked up at London 2012 and the one he won eight years ago in Beijing.
While Kenny waited for the semi-finals, he watched fiancee Laura Trott win a third gold medal - the first British female in any sport to achieve a treble - in the Women's Team Pursuit final as world champions USA were beaten in the final in another world record time.
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