Australia's track cyclists may have dominated arch rivals Britain at the world championships, but they won't be crowing about it for long.

National performance director Shayne Bannan believes his youthful Australian squad's ability to top the medal table convincingly in Copenhagen over the past week bodes well for the London 2012 Olympics.

However, he pointed out that while Australia topped the medal tally, Britain won more medals in Olympic events and both countries won three golds each in disciplines on the next Games program which has been reshaped to ensure gender parity.

"Great Britain is still the No.1 nation in Olympic disciplines. We're not too far behind them," Bannan told AAP.

"We finished with three gold medals in Olympic disciplines and they finished with three gold medals in Olympic discipline events.

"But they have more depth than us across the board, which highlights the areas that we need to improve on.

"It's going to be pretty tough these next couple of years."

Australia finished with six gold, two silver and two bronze medals, including three golds to 22-year-old Cameron Meyer for the points race, madison and team pursuit.

Team stalwart Anna Meares, a veteran among the new generation at the age of just 26, won gold in the 500m time trial and the team sprint, where she and Kaarle McCulloch broke the world record.

Of those events, only the team pursuit and team sprint have retained their Olympic status with men and women to contest five disciplines each in London.

Of the other Olympic events, Australians Ashlee Ankudinoff, Sarah Kent and Josephine Tomic beat Britain to win the women's team pursuit. On Sunday, the final day of racing, Australia's Shane Perkins took silver in the men's sprint behind Gregory Bauge of France and compatriot Leigh Howard was second to British rider Ed Clancy in the omnium.

Victoria Pendleton looked unbeatable in the women's sprint and fellow Briton Sir Chris Hoy was below his best but won the men's keirin. Canadian Tara Whitten took the women's omnium and Simona Krupeckaite of Lithuania won the women's keirin.

"Overall in the Olympic disciplines we're extremely happy but there are some areas we've identified during the week that we need to work on," Bannan said.

"The success here, the coaches and I, we're going to make sure we neutralise it in the coming months because it's all about the real challenges that it takes to win an Olympic Games gold medal and that's what we're all focusing on.

"Certainly they're enjoying the moment and a rainbow jersey at the world championships is such a fantastic thing in the sport of cycling so we're really happy but tomorrow we get back to the nitty gritty again."

Perkins clocked a personal best 9.948sec in the flying 200m to join the exclusive sub-10-second club under the watchful eye of coach and former Australian sprinter Sean Eadie.

"Dipping under the 10, I don't think it's sunk in yet what I've done, but I want to improve on that," Perkins said.

"I wanted to go 9.8, but 9.9 I'm happy.

"It would have been nice to get the jersey like Sean did here eight years ago but I'm still very pleased.

"There's still a lot of work to do but I'm looking forward to the challenge heading towards London."

Valkerie Baynes
AAP - London