Track team chosen

Press, 8 March 1982, Page 20

Track team chosen

By

RAY CAIRNS

Seven track cyclists will, Commonwealth Games selectors concurring, represent New Zealand at the Brisbane Games in October. At the conclusion of the Healing national hard track championships at Denton Park yesterday morning, the convener of the cycling selection panel (Mr Gordon Sharrock, of Wanganui) named Craig Adair (Canterbury), Anthony Cuff and Michael Mcßedmond (both of Palmerston North) to join the pursuit team which recently broke the standard set by Messrs Sharrock, Jack Broome and Graham Sycamore.

That team is: Brian Fowler, Murray Steele (Canterbury), Graeme Miller (Auckland) and Clem Captein (Waikato-Bay of Plenty). ‘There are really no surprises in-that team, though Cuff, who: recently went a shade under the kilometre qualifying time before being weft beaten in the champion-

ships by Adair, Steele, Fowler and Captein, seemed to be short of events. As it is, he has been named, with Adair and Steele, to ride the kilometre, and he and Adair will ride the 4000 m individual pursuit. . The latter was not ridden that distance competitively, but his 3000 m junior times suggest he will return very creditable times over the longer distance. To cap his programme, Adair, with Captein and Miller, will ride the 10 miles. Mcßedmond, the national sprint champion in successive years, will have only that event, and Captein and Steele will also ride the sprint. The road team, announced in October, is: Jack Swart, Stephen Cox (both Waikato), Blair Stockwell (Canterbury), Stephen Carton (Wellington) and Roger.; Sumich (Auckland), The selectors also. announced another team to compete at Brisbane, a six-

strong squad of juniors for international supporting events. With the exceptions of Mitch Carr (Waikato) and Russell Clune (Auckland), all raced in the boys’ grade at the national championships, and this was deliberate because ail six are still eligible for the world junior championships in Wanganui next year. The others are Alan Miller (Wellington), Barry Prior, Peter McNairney (West Coast-North Island) and Stephen Harcourt (Southland). The reserves are lan Ellis (Wellington) and Terry Stone (WCNI).

Miller and Prior are also in the team for this year’s world junior championships, in Italy in August. There they will be joined by Del Woodford (Otago), the only survivor of last year’s team, and three road riders, Stephen Swart (Waikato), Gary Johnson (Wellington) and Gerard Golder (Auckland). ;