Sue Bruce runs well in Aust.
The outstanding Canterbury athlete. Sue Bruce (Villa Maria), won the Australian under 19 schoolgirls' cross-country championship convincingly on a waterlogged course in Launceston. Tasmania, on Saturday. Miss Bruce blitzed her rivals over the final 500 m of the 4000 m race to win in 13min 425. With her teammates, Alison Taylor, Christine McMeekin and Wendy Langlands, finishing third, fourth and fifth, respectively. New Zealand easily took the teams’ race.
In the under 15 girls’ event. Mandy Lusk (St Cuthbert's) finished third and her Auckland team-mate, Nicky Gould, was tenth over 2000 m. ’
The New Zealand trio of Roger Gray (Gore High School), Andrew Hodgson (Rongotai College)' and Peter Baker (Christchurch Boys’ High School), ran outstandingly to win the under 17 boys' teams' championship. Gray won the race from Hodgson with Baker fifth. The New Zealand under 19 boys’ team was third. Gregor Cameron (Eastern Otago) finished fourth, Peter'Hancock (Thames) was fifth and Trent hiles (Wellington College) was twentieth.
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