Meyer claimed his fourth men's points race world title, and first since a home triumph in Melbourne in 2012, after completely dominating the event at the Hong Kong Velodrome.

Having lapped the field with a small group, he then lapped the field again on his own to put his stamp on the race and ensure victory with a total of 76 points. 

Belgium’s Kenny De Ketele took silver, while Poland’s Wojciech Pszczolarski came away with bronze.

Kerby’s win in the men’s individual pursuit, secured with a time 4 min 17.068sec, made it a double success for Australia on the day.

The 24-year-old beat Italy’s Filippo Gana in the gold medal race by a margin of 4.231 seconds.

He had earlier set the third fastest time in history - 4:12.172 - in qualifying.

Rounding out the podium was Kerby’s team-mate Kelland O'Brien, who clocked a time of 4:16.909 in the bronze medal race to beat France’s Corentin Ermenault by 2.527 seconds.

There was also victory today for Olympic champion Kristina Vogel as the German won every heat on her way to winning the women's sprint crown.

Vogel went up against Australia's Stephanie Morton in the final, winning the first race by 0.149 seconds and the second by 0.147 seconds.

Host nation Hong Kong claimed their first medal of the Championships with Lee Wai Sze taking bronze at the expense of Lithuania's Simona Krupeckaite.

Lee won the first race by 0.054 seconds and the second by 0.039 seconds.

The final title of the day to be awarded was the four-event women's ominium, which Great Britain's Katie Archibald won with a total of 123 points for her first individual global crown.

Archibald won the first two events, the scratch and tempo races, and was fifth in the elimination to go into the final points race level on 112 points with Australia's Amy Cure.

She extended her lead in the opening stages of the decisive event and although Cure reduced the deficit to just two points before the final sprint, Archibald dug deep to collect two points and secure the rainbow jersey.

"I feel really privileged to pull it off," the Scot said.

"It (the points race) was an unbelievably grippy race.

"I really thought I'd lost it in the middle point but I pulled it out of the bag.

"It feels very strange.

"I'm used to having my girls, my team-mates, around me, so it's odd to celebrate by yourself but I'm looking forward to catching up with them at the hotel."

Cure finished tied with The Netherlands’ Kirsten Wild on 115 points with the latter taking the silver medal by virtue of finishing in front of the former in the final sprint.

Action in Hong Kong is due to continue tomorrow when medals will be awarded in the women's 500m time trial, madison and individual pursuit, and men's omnium and sprint.