Two teams qualify for nationals

Press, 29 August 1977, Page 23

Two teams qualify for nationals

i The absences of most of Can- < terbury’s leading cyclists, com- ’ peting in the valuable Tauranga [ Hour, took much of the glamour: - from yesterday’s Canterbury 1 100 km team time trial championship. What made it worse, was that [ a number of those listed in I teams chose not to compete, : some apparently on the grounds that they were not impressed . with their non-selections for ■ higher-ranked teams. I However, two teams returned I times which qualify them to ■ compete at the national cham- [ pionships, with Blair Stockwell, Paul Jesson. Bryan Stenning and [ Chris Hogan perhaps constitute i ing the other team. I Papanui A (Dave Dewson, | Frank Schaapveld, John Degarn- [ ham and Jim Ryder) returned 12hr 31min 40sec, although with[ouf Ryder for half the distance. The other qualifying team was . Woolston: Roy Pemberton, John j Mullan, Ken Askew and Dick ■ ' Thompson did 2hr 35sec j I exactly, the qualifying time. The third-placed team was; Papanui B, a Junior team con[sisting of Paul Flattery. Royce! | Dawson, Kevin Basher and Greg [ Tump, well >ack — after a lot :<-f trouble — with its 2hr 46min 46see. I On Saturday, in Blenheim. I Don Johnson won the Marl- . borough 80km classic, and I ' bunch, missed fastest time by I Pemberton, riding from two marks in front of the scratch only I3sec, and also took fourth, place. I