Gray and Thompson set up gold-medal ride-off with Ireland's Meehan and Walsh

New Zealand’s Phillipa Gray and Laura Thompson set a stunning world record at the Paralympic Games to advance to the women’s blind and visually impaired tandem pursuit final at the London 2012 velodrome.

Gray and her pilot Thompson clocked three minutes 31.530 seconds, beating the previous best mark by almost five seconds, to set up a gold medal ride-off with world champions Catherine Walsh and Francine Meehan of Ireland, who qualified in 3mins 36.453secs.