TRACK AND SPECTATORS; POST (NETHERLANDS) WINS EVENT; RIDERS LINE UP FOR INTERNATIONAL POINT-TO-POINT RACE; START: DALER IN LEAD FROM JACKSON; JACKSON WINS; JACKSON WITH TROPHY.




Initials GHB/V/MR/BB


SPORT: CYCLING

Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved

Background: JIRI DALER, CZECHOSLOVAKIA'S OLYMPIC PURSUIT CHAMPION, MADE CURACHO TROPHY HIS OWN TODAY (FRIDAY) WHEN HE SCORED HIS THIRD SUCCESSIVE WIN IN THE EVENT AT AN INTERNATIONAL CYCLING MEETING AT HERNE HILL, LONDON. DALER WON THE 4,000 METRES PURSUIT EVENT FROM BRITISH CHAMPION BRENDAN MCKEOWN.

IN A RACE PACED BY MOPEDS, PETER POST OF THE NETHERLANDS BEAT BELGIUM'S JOS DE BAKKER AND ENGLAND'S DAVE BONNER.

JIRI DALER WAS ALSO IN GOOD FORM IN THE GOLDEN WHEEL FIVE MILE INTERNATIONAL POINT-TO-POINT RACE, BUT FINISHED SECOND TO ENGLISH RIDER M. JACKSON.

FRENCHMAN DANIEL MORELON WON THE "CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS" 1,000 METRES SPRINT RACE WITH ONLY INCHES TO SPARE OVER ANOTHER BRITISH RIDER REG BENNETT. LAST YEAR'S WINNER, JURGEN GESCHKE OF EAST GERMANY WAS THIRD.

A LARGE AND APPRECIATIVE CROWD WATCHED THE RACING IN BRIGHT SUNSHINE.