Rich nine-day cycle classic
NZPA Sydney Australia’s answer to the Tour de France, the Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic from Brisbane to Sydney, will boast 12 overseas teams this year, including a team from New Zealand.
A field of 72 international and top Australian cyclists, split into four-man teams, will contest the nine-day race, which begins in Brisbane on October 5, and ends with a 40lap circuit at Sydney’s Coogee Bay on October 13. Details of the 1985 Classic were announced in Sydney yes-
terday by the Commonwealth Bank’s marketing chief, Michael Leechman. Mr Leechman said the Classic field would be 72-strong, with six Australian teams competing against teams from France, Sweden, Czechoslavakia as well as previous competitors, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, China, West Germany, Japan, Switzerland, England and New Zealand.
'The budget for the 1985 race has been boosted to $612,000, more than double the amount spent last year,' he said.
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