Richards smashes record
(N.Z. Press Association! . ■ WANGANUI. The 17-year-old Auck-i lander, Michael Richards,] last night emerged as an out-] standing Olympic Games medal prospect with a withering performance on Wanganui’s Cook’s Gardens cycling track.
Richards, in only his fifth season of cycling, wrote his own ticket to Montreal with a world class time of 4min 51.5 sec for the 4000 metres individual pursuit in a special Olympic Games trial. The time not only broke Blair Stockwell’s national record of smin 2sec by an amazing 10.5 sec but it skyrocketed him into international class. Beams on the selectors’ faces had barely dimmed before Mike Fabish (New Plymouth) advanced his Olympic Games selection claims byrecording a splendid Imin |lo.4sec for the 1000 metres time trial. I.2sec better than he has ever achieved before and well inside Games qualifying standards.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34106, 19 March 1976, Page 24
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