Sport in Short: Cycling
BCF NATIONAL TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS (Leicester): Club team 4,000m pursuit: Final: Team Haverhill 4min 39.11sec bt VC St Raphael w/o. Bronze medals: Dinnington RC 4:39.37. Women's 1,000m sprint: Final: W Everson (Wolverhampton Wh) bt C Rushworth (Manchester Wh) 2-1. Bronze medal: not awarded. Amateur 1,000m tandem sprint: Final: P Boyd (Clayton Velo) and G Hibbert (Team Sportif Tameside) bt M Phillips (Dinnington RC) and C Pyatt (City of Stoke AC) 2-0. Bronze medals: J Saysell (Kirkby CC) and A Mooney (Ellan Vannin CC) bt M Librizzi (City of Edinburgh RC) and S Whitcombe (CC Cardiff) 2-0. Open 80km madison: 1 S Lillistone and B Steel (Team Haverhill) 21pts; 2 G Coltman (Raleigh) and R Williams (Butler-Wolber) 38 at 1 lap; 3 J Walshaw (Saracen) and S Wingrave (PCA) 32 at 1 lap. Time: 1hr 52min 26.96sec.
TOUR OF THE NETHERLANDS (Heythuysen): Sixth and final stage: 1 G Rue (Fr) 4hr 13min 55sec; 2 A Ferrigato (It) +5sec; 3 M Lietti (It); 4 S Yates (GB); 5 J Nijdam (Neth); 6 A Baffi (It); 7 E Schurer (Neth); 8 V Chabalkine (CIS); 9 D Lauritzen (Nor); 10 T Marie (Fr) same time. Overall standings: 1 Nijdam 20hr 36min 31sec; 2 Marie +43sec; 3 L Bezault (Fr) +55; 4 Yates +1 min 17sec.
CHAMPION OF ZURICH WORLD CUP RACE (240km): 1 V Ekimov (CIS) 6hr 0min 1sec; 2 L Armstrong (US) +14sec; 3 J Nevens (Bel) same time; 4 G Bontempi (It) +34; 5 B Leali (It); 6 M Earley (Irl) s/t. GB and Irl: 21 D Rayner +59; 23 S Kelly; 58 S Roche 59; 74 R Millar 59 all s/t. Overall World Cup standings: 1 O Ludwig (Ger) 101pts; 2 J Museeuw (Bel) 74; 3 R Alcala (Mex) 72; 4 G Duclos-Lassalle (Fr) 64; 5 D de Wolf (Bel) 58; 6 L Jalabert (Fr) 57; 10= S Kelly (Irl) 50.
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