Sport in Short: Cycling
MAX SCIANDRI, the Derby-born Italian winner of the Kellogg's Tour of Britain, is out of today's Wincanton Classic after a training run crash in Leeds yesterday. Sciandri, the Derby-born Italian, fell after hitting a stone at roadworks. A head wound will keep the Irishman Stephen Roche out of the race.
BCF NATIONAL TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS (Leicester): Amateur 4,000m individual pursuit, second round: C Boardman (GS Strada) 4min 45.232sec ct A Forbes (VC St Raphael); B Steel (Team Haverhill) 4:48.464 bt R Hayles (Team Haverhill) 4:57.97; S Shand (Wembley RC) 4:54.58 bt P Jennings (VC St Raphael) 4:57.10; A Allen (Team Haverhill) 4:58.75 bt S Dangerfield (Leo RC) 5:00.77. Women's 3,000m individual pursuit, second round: S Dawes (Leicestershire RC) 4:06.41 ct L Clarke (Fenland Clarion); S Hodge (VC Ajax) 4:08.954 ct I Rowntree (Uvex- Reynolds); L Jones (GS Strada) 4:14.084 bt A Thomas (Stourbridge CC) 4:29.124; R Jones (Abergavenny) 4:16.22 bt D Petrella (CC Breckland) 4:21.01. Professional keirin: 1 P McHugh (PCA) last 200m in 11.717sec; 2 G Coltman (Raleigh); 3 R Williams (Butler-Wolber).
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