Cycling

A strong U.S. team won the women’s 50-kilometer team time trial in the World Cycling Championships at Benidorm, Spain, edging the defending gold medalists from France. Bunki Bankaitis-Davis, Eve Stephenson, Jan Bolland and Jeanne Golay were clocked in 1 hour 3 minutes 30.7 seconds, more than 12 seconds ahead of the French and better than 46 seconds in front of the third-place Russians. The U.S women won the silver medal in 1990, but were fourth last year.

The weeklong championships end today with the men’s 162-mile road race in which Spain’s Miguel Indurain is favored. Greg LeMond withdrew, citing a urinary tract infection. The top U.S. riders are Andy Hampsten and Lance Armstrong.