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No January gym contest

The New Zealand Gymnastic Association has decided not to hold an international contest in January in replacement of the cancelled New Zealand Games competition.

The executive of the association met last week and decided that the financial risk in attempting to inn a competition in January would be too great. However the association hopes to attract teams from Rumania and Japan for a tour of New Zealand in May or June next year.

The chairman of the executive (Mr S. E. Brooks) said something had to be done to replace the competition that New Zealand gymnasts would have received from the Games. Mr Brooks said there was a better chance of obtaining the gymnasts the association wanted later in the year. January is the peak period for the Japanese but the MayJune period is their offseason.

Besides Japan and Rumania, a team from the United States is also being sought and Mr Brooks said he hopes to talk to Cornel Marculescu, a top official in the Rumanian Ministry of Sport, who will be in New Zealand next month.

Regarded as the top international water-polo referee, Marculescu will be in New Zealand to conduct a series of clinics, but in Rumania he is particularly involved with water-polo and gymnastics and the N.Z.G.A. hopes to convince him that the Rumanians should tour New Zealand. Meanwhile the trials scheduled for next month for places in the New Zealand Games team have been cancelled, but the tour of New Zealand by an Australian boys age-group team will continue in Januarv.

Tennis.— ln the men’s singles final, at the Benson and Hedges tennis championships in London. Jimmy Connors (U.S.A.) beat Roscoe Tanner (U.S.A.) 3-6, 7-6, 64.

Cycling.— Danny Clark and Donald Allan, of Australia, won the Six Days of Ghent cycling competition in Belgium with 173 points. Second were Patrick Sercu and Van Den Haute, of Belgium, with 138.

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Press, 23 November 1976, Page 40

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No January gym contest Press, 23 November 1976, Page 40

No January gym contest Press, 23 November 1976, Page 40

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