News and Reports for October 8

Boardman Comes Back

   Chris Boardman lines up in the Merseyside Wheelers' Invitation TT. It
will be run over a 28-mile course in the Delamere Forest area of Cheshire.
Boardman plans on it being an easy ride. He said: "It's just a run-out. I
know the course and it will be dodgy if it rains, so I just want to get
round."
   Boardman will be using the Merseyside event as training for the
Milan-Turin and Tour of Piedmont events in Italy on 17 and 19 October 95.

Ironman Triathlon

   Mark Allen won his sixth Ironman Triathlon World Championship today
(Saturday), finishing the 140.6-mile competition in an unofficial 8 hours,
20 minutes and 35 seconds. Thomas Hellriegel, 24, of Germany, finished
second in 8:22:59. Rainer Mueller, 28, of Germany, was third in 8:25:24,
followed by 1994 champion Greg Welch of Australia in 8:29:14, and Ken Glah,
31, of West Chester, Pa., in 8:30:39.
   Karen Smyers of Lincoln, Mass., USA, won the women's title in 9:16:41.
Smyers passed seven-time winner Paula Newby-Fraser of Encinitas, Calif.,
USA, who collapsed about 300 yards from the finish line.