Becky James in women's sprint final at World Championships Britain's Becky James will go for gold in the women's sprint later on Saturday after surging through her semi-final at the World Championships. James beat China's Guo Shuang 2-0 and now faces Germany's Kristina Vogel in another best-of-three showdown in the final. The 21-year-old from Abergavenny has already won two bronze medals this week and is now looking to follow in Victoria Pendleton's footsteps by becoming world sprint champion. In the men's event, Olympic champion Jason Kenny, who won keirin gold on Friday, is into the quarter-finals but Matt Crampton and Philip Hindes are out. Pendleton, the six-time world champion and sprint legend who retired after the London Olympics, is a tough act to follow but James has come to these championships in the form of her life. She teamed up with Vicky Williamson to take bronze in the team sprint on Wednesday and followed that up with another third place in the 500m time trial on Thursday. After qualifying fastest on Friday, she has now won all of her head-to-head sprint races and made short work of both races against the experienced Guo Shuang, leading out on both occasions and twice opening up an impressive gap on her at the line. That guaranteed at least a silver medal, whatever happens against Vogel, and James will aim to get on the podium for a fourth time when she competes in the keirin on Sunday. Fresh from his dramatic keirin victory on Friday night, Kenny returned to the track on Saturday morning to finish seventh-fastest in qualifying. He then had to come through two tough races, working hard to see off Pavel Kelemen of the Czech Republic before needing a photo-finish to see off Germany's Stefan Botticher. Botticher had convincingly beaten another British rider, Philip Hindes, in the first round. Crampton sprang a surprise by attacking late and beating powerful German Robert Forstemann in his first knockout match, but could not hold off New Zealand's Simon van Velthooven, who passed him off the final bend in their round of 1/8 encounter. That put him in the repechage, which is a three-man dash for the line with only the winner going through. The 26-year-old from Southampton got past Spain's Juan Gascon Peralta but he could not get close to Australia's Matt Glaetzer, who was the man to progress.