Russians dominant
NZPA-Reuter Harrogate Soviet rider Alexander Averin has won the 176 km tenth stage of the Tour of Britain cycle race from Bradford to Harrogate, leaving Russians holding five of the top six positions Over all. Only Jiri Skoda, a Czechoslovak, fifth over all, dents the Soviet monopoly. In the over-all team placings, the Soviet Union leads Poland and Britain. New- Zealand is in ninth place. Vern Hanaray was the best-performed New Zealand rider in the tenth stage, finishing fifteenth. Jack Swart was thirty-ninth and Steve Cox forty-fourth. ; ; Hanaray. holds tenth place
over all. Cox is thirty-first, and Swart holds the thirty-’ fourth spot. '
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