A controversial incident in the senior men’s New Zealand cross-country championship at Cust on Saturday. Paul Ballinger (Taranaki) and Euan Robertson (Waikato), party obscured, were leading the field as they approached a thick bunch of hay bales on the second lap. In third place was Michael Gilchrist (pictured at left), the Canterbury champion. Both Ballinger and Robertsonn put their feet through the soft middle of the hay, and fell. Ballinger recovered and won, but Robertson lost valuable time and had to fight his way back to fifth.
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Press, 9 August 1982, Page 15
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87A controversial incident in the senior men’s New Zealand cross-country championship at Cust on Saturday. Paul Ballinger (Taranaki) and Euan Robertson (Waikato), party obscured, were leading the field as they approached a thick bunch of hay bales on the second lap. In third place was Michael Gilchrist (pictured at left), the Canterbury champion. Both Ballinger and Robertsonn put their feet through the soft middle of the hay, and fell. Ballinger recovered and won, but Robertson lost valuable time and had to fight his way back to fifth. Press, 9 August 1982, Page 15
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