31-Dec-78

NATIONAL Junior Best All-Rounder

Improving Curran held in third place

THE Road Time Trials Council have confirmed a repeat third place for Stockton Wheeler Paul Curran in the season-long national junior best all-rounder competition.

The standard of performance in this year's series was of a calibre never previously matched in junior time trialling. All three of the riders who claimed the major placings in the final table have bettered the best ever produced in the competition's ten years history.

The young Stockton cyclist achieved his final high place in the competition with;

Performances at ten miles:
21-08, 22-00

Performances at 25 miles:
54-53, 55-54

This gave him an average speed of 27.499mph.

Title win

As well as being a superb individual achievement for Curran, this performance again underlines a solid year of success for the North Region Cycling Centre of Excellence of which the Stockton junior is a member.

Having already ridden in the junior world championships' along with his Teesside Clarion clubmate Jeff Lyons, Brad Thurrell produced the best ever performance nationally on his way to the junior kilometre title for the second time at Leicester, with Curran taking the silver, which he added to a bronze from the junior pursuit.