Miller keeps slender lead
PA New Plymouth The Aucklander, Graeme Miller, continues to hold a slender lead over Morrinsville’s Jack Swart, of Morrinsville, at the end of stage six of the Dulux seven-day cycle race.. He is 16 sec ahead, but yesterday’s honours went to Japan’s Toshimi Sato. The tiny Japanese put in a gutsy effort in the hot, humid conditions to win the gruelling Otorohanga-New Plymouth stage. He went away froin his fellow break-rider, Blair Cox (Eltham) at Urenui, about 30km from the stage finish, when Cox punctured.
From then on he was on his own.
The pair broke clear from the bunch on the Mokau side of Mount Messenger. Cox
was the first to go, quickly followed by Sato. Cox was first over Mount Messenger, about 30sec clear of Sato, with the bunch a further 42sec back. Results.— Stage six (Oto-rohanga-New Plymouth): Sato 4h 25m in.l, Fairless 2, Miller 3, Paul Leitch (Auckland) 4, Steve Bent (England) 5. King of the Mountains: Stephen Cox (Hamilton) 26 points 1, Sato, Leitch, Blair Cox 10 points equal 2, Paul Miller (Hamilton) 7 points 5, Gotz Heine (West Germany), Warren Sharrock (Wanganui), Blair Stockwell (Canterbury) 3 points equal 6. General classification: Miller 14h 55m in 23s 1, Swart at 16s 2, Stockwell at 22s 3, Andrew Whitford (Tokoroa) at 26s 4, David Barnett (Wellington) at 34s 5, Sato at 46s 6, Fairless at 47s 7, Heine at 59s 8,
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