NATIONAL SUCCESS FOR CHCH ROLLER SKATERS

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33739, 11 January 1975, Page 4

NATIONAL SUCCESS FOR CHCH ROLLER SKATERS

Two young Rollerdrome skaters, Karen Treloar and Gerard Landreth, won titles at the national roller skating championships which ended in W anganui last week.

Miss Treloar, aged 17, was the most successful member of the Canterbury contingent of 13. She won two senior women’s titles and. in taking the 3000 metres track event, she broke the long standing record of Marlene Glover by two seconds.

Her second success was achieved in the longest of the three road races — 5000 metres. But Miss Treloar, although second in the other two road races, lost her aggregate championship to Christine Rowe (Hastings). Mrs Rowe, who won four individual titles, also narrowly won the track aggregate from Miss Treloar.

Miss Treloar teamed with her Rollerdrome team-mates. Misses Robyn Clarke and Cheryl Millar, to gain a bronze medal in the women’s track relay. Landreth, the Ashburton teenager who represented New Zealand at the world artistic championships in Spain last August, performed meritoriously to win the senior men's title at his first attempt.

The national intermediate champion last year. Landreth won both the compulsory figures and freeskating solo section of the men’s championship to ensure himself the over-all title. He received strong opposition. especially in the solo section, from his international team-mate. Gregory Hollows (Manawatu). Hollows. who gained two votes from the five judges, showed vgst improvement on his performances a year ago. The most successful competitor in the senior men's events was Colin Harvev. a Rollerdrome representative three years ago but now of Wellington. He

had one win on the track and two on the road. But the trophy for the most outstanding performance by a male skater went once again to the evergreen Hastings skater. George Hailes.

The tall 29-year-old Hastings skater added to his imposing list of national titles with two successes on the track and, to show his versatility, he combined with his wife,

Raewyn, to gain third place in the senior dance section behind two international dance pairs, Robert and Annette Green (Hawke’s Bay) and Bruce and Judith Delaney (Auckland).