The 35-year-old Wild defeated Russia's Evgenia Augustinas in the miss-and-out format to repeat the victory she secured last year.

Italian Maria Giulia Confalonieri took the bronze medal.

It came on the first of a four-day continental event featuring 338 riders - 120 women and 218 men - from 28 countries competing at the German capital's Velodrom.

Adrien Garel of France also secured victory in the scratch race today.

The 21-year-old defeated Hungary's Krisztian Lovassy and the bronze medal was taken by Roman Gladysh of Ukraine.

France completely dominated the men's programme as they also scooped team pursuit and team sprint honours.

They won the former event 3min 55.780sec to edge out Italy in 3:55.986.

Russia took the bronze medal in 3:57.517.

France's sprinters then clocked 43.254sec to defeat the German hosts, in 43.337, and The Netherlands, who took the bronze medal in 43.405.

Russia won the women's team sprint in 32.560.

Germany were forced to settle for second best again, crossing in 32.807, as The Netherlands also secured another bronze medal, in 33.180.

Italy won the women's team pursuit, meanwhile, as their time of 4:17.853 was enough to comfortably defeat Great Britain in the final by 3.31 seconds.

Poland managed 4:24.705 for the bronze medal.

Action is due continue tomorrow.