Swart retains tour lead

Press, 3 November 1981, Page 28

Swart retains tour lead

PA Wellington The Waikato cyclist, Jack Swart, has taken over the leadership after the first full day of the 1100 km Dulux Auckland-Wellington race. The race judges put Canterbury’s. Blair Stockwell and Waikato’s Stephen Cox in the joint lead after the day ended in Tauranga, but they later revised race times. No official comment was available, but a race

i follower told the NZPA that Swart, the tour favourite, : had been wrongly placed — *' and therefore wrongly timed 1 — at the stage finish in : Tauranga. The original leader after t yesterday’s prologue in 1 Auckland, he now has a onei second margin over the Ausr tralian, Alan Peiper. t Cox and Stockwell are now back in third equal, three > seconds down. i Dutchman, Wilbert Mes-

man, rode solo for 70km to win the second stage Mesman and Steven Carton (Wellington), dominated the afternoon’s 76.6 km stage • from Paeroa to Tauranga.. Mesman is from near Amsterdam, but has spent the last 10 months in New Zealand, mainly in Hamilton, as part of “seeing the world.” “Back home the fields are so big that it is hard to finish in the first 20 unless you are a good sprinter,” he said.

The revised general classification: J. Swart (Waikato), 4hr 39min Bsec. 1; A. Peiper (Australia), 2; B. Stockwell (Canterbury), and S. Cox (Waikato), equal 3; C. Captein (Waikato), 5; S. Carton (Wellington), 6; R. Sumich (Auckland), 7; C. Hogan (Christchurch). 8; K. Rosemergy (Auckland),. 9: ’ R. Richdale (Wanganui), 10. Stage one: Captein, 1; Peiper, 2; Stockwell, 3. Stage two: Mesman, 1; Cbx, 2; Stockwell, 3. King of the mountain progress: Hogan, 8,1; Cox, 5,2; Mesman, 3, 3.