Australia’s new queen of the track Rose Davies nailed a dream middle-distance double as teammate and rival Jessica Hull played her own part in history in a 1-2 flash of flourescent yellow at Glasgow’s Scotstoun Stadium.

Just three days after she became the first Australian to win the 10,000m event, Davies backed it up over 5000m as Australia’s Commonwealth Games gold rush transferred from the pool to the track and velodrome with another four gold medals on day seven.

Davies crossed the line in 14min 44.53sec, Hull a stride behind - or eight one hundredths of a second in 14:45.01. Scotland’s Megan Keith was left sucking in air four seconds further back to claim the bronze medal.

The last time two Australians finished first and second on the Commonwealth Games track was in 1974 when Raelene Boyle beat Denise Robertson over 200m.

Channel 7 commentator Bruce McAvaney said it the Australia one-two was “what we dreamed of”.

“It’s all about the Aussies. Unforgettable,” he said.

Keith broke away with a mile to go, leaving a lead pack featuring Caroline Nyaga as Kenya’s last hope of making it six 5km women’s golds in a row, Uganda’s Esther Chebet and England’s Hannah Nuttall.

Davies, 26, remained patient and seized the moment with 200m remaining, making the decisive move on the back straight to take the lead with Hull right on her shoulder.

Just as it looked like Hull was going to finish stronger, fellow Newcastle runner Davies found more in her legs and kicked away.

“It was just pure grit in the end,” Davies said.

“I thought I might be in trouble with Hull sitting on my shoulder and just gave it everything I had. I can’t believe it.

“This week hasn’t sunk in yet, but I’ll definitely celebrate tonight.”

The result also bodes well for 29-year-old Hull, the Olympic and world champion medallist over 1500m, who earlier in the day cruised through to the final of the women’s mile, her preferred distance, along with fellow Australians Abbey Caldwell and Claudia Hollingsworth. That final will be raced on Sunday morning at 4.45am WST.

“It’s pretty special to have another Aussie out there with me but to be battling home for the gold against an Aussie was a bit of a mind flip,” Hull told Seven after the 5000m final.

“I’m pretty proud of that, and I’m so proud of Rose, that double is incredible.

“I ran this morning (in the one mile heats), but thinking she ran a 10k three days ago, came back and just wanted it so much tonight, it’s really impressive.”

Hull added the 5km to her repertoire only two years ago as she looks to extend her career to the Los Angelesa nd Brisbane Olympics.

“Closing out a 5k is a different beast and I think I found myself quite tactically raw out there,” she said.

“I didn’t really know what to do a lot, I was looking for dad [her coach, Simon Hull] in the crowd. I was like, ‘Do I stay here? Do I move up? So with three laps to go when Rose went around I was like, ‘OK, Rose knows what to do here so just follow her’.”

West Australian Peter Bol was checked twice in his 800m semi-final and boxed in at the final turn, but still found a way to comfortably qualify for the final at 3.45am WST on Sunday morning. He will be joined by teammates Peyton Craig and Luke Boyes, with the latter running a 1:45.11 in his semi-final, the fastest time by an Australian at the Commonwealth Games.

Bol was last after the first lap, and as he went to make a move coming into the final bend, he got boxed in but kept his head to cross the line in second and qualify with a time of 1:45.25. It was well short of his PB of 1:42.55, set last year.

“That’s the nature of the 800; I stayed relaxed and came through, and I trusted myself, and that was a quality field with the top three from Birmingham,” he said.

“Absolutely, I’m in PB shape, which is a credit to my team. It’s going to be a hell of a final.”

Kenyan pair Wyclife Kinyamal (1:44.91) and Kelvin Loti (1:45.25) will also fancy their chances of taking top spot on the podium.

Australia added a swag of medals, including three gold, at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.

The headline act was Australia’s sweet victory over bitter rivals England in a men’s team sprint that was missing Western Australian Matt Richardson.

Richardson, who defected to Great Britain after the Paris Olympics, withdrew with injury after a nasty fall a week ago in a Japan keirin race.

He had added spice to the build up by declaring the Great Britain cycling programme far superior to Australia’s, saying it was like comparing a high school to Hogwarts of Harry Potter fame.

The Australian team of Ryan Elliott, Leigh Hoffman and Daniel Barber had the last say, beating England in a lightning time of 29.644 for gold.

“I think maybe he got his Hogwarts invitation left in the mail; it would have been great to line up against him, but I’m sure we’ll come up against him at world championships,” Hoffman said.

“It was horrible, I’ve seen video of the crash, it’s pretty serious. I would have loved for him to come here and race and see how Danny (teammate Danny Barber) and I stack up.

“It would have been great if he stayed in Australia, but his heart was obviously never always in it - so good riddance.”

The bronze race was over before it started, with Trinidad and Tobago earning their first-ever team cycling medal in Commonwealth Games history after one of Wales’ racers was ruled out by the medical team at the start line in a bizarre set of circumstances.

It came after Australia pulled out a record-breaking ride to complete an epic comeback against longtime rivals New Zealand in the 4000m team pursuit decider.

The squad of Georgia Baker, Claudia Marcks, Alyssa Polites and Felicity Wilson-Haffenden broke the Commonwealth Games record with a 4.10.658 ride to take out the gold medal at the Glasgow Velodrome.

That was followed by C4 cyclist Tara Neyland setting a new world record en-route to a 4000m individual pursuit gold medal with a stunning 4.46.614 time in which she pedalled 2km/h faster then England’s Morgan Newberry.

The men’s team pursuit side dropped a scrappy gold medal race to England to land a bittersweet silver.

WA pair Connor Leahy and Oliver Bleddyn couldn’t push the squad over the line. It was as close as it could be, with the thinnest margins separating the two teams once each hit the halfway mark.

But England managed to jump ahead and the Aussie men couldn’t close the gap once the pressure mounted, finishing with a silver time of 3.48.223.

England set a new Games record with their 3.47.092 finish.

Jessica Gallagher won silver in a chaotic women’s tandem B sprint final that was delayed after the riders crashed into each other.

Piloted by Jacqueline Mengler-Mohr, the Australian pair had a wobbly start to their second race and lost control - flying straight into New Zealand’s Emma Foy and pilot Jessie Hodges which saw the girls to take an ugly fall.

Perth’s Kane Perris and longtime pilot Luke Zaccaria got the medal action underway for Australia with a 1000m tandem time-trial bronze.

The visually impaired West Australian finished just shy of the one minute mark needed pip gold from Scotland’s Neil Fachie, but still landed on the podium with a 1.01.873 finish.