Adair’s fine fifth
NZPA-Reuter Zurich New Zealand’s Commonwealth Games gold medallist, Craig Adair, rode one of the races of his career to finish fifth in the European-dominated final of the amateur kilometre time trial at the world track cycling championships yesterday. Adair’s time of lmin 5.40 s left him only .33 of a second outside the time of the
bronze medallist, Lothar Thoms, of East Germany, in a final in which only .38 of a second split the second and fifth placegetters. Sergei Kopylov, of the Soviet Union, was a clear winner of the event, canteringl home in a time of lmin 3.945, one full second ahead of the silver medallist, Gerhard Scheller, of West Germany.
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Press, 25 August 1983, Page 38
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