_ Mike Christensen

Dr. Paul Clark placed 13th at

* Seattle’s annual ‘‘Wheels of
Fire”’
weeks ago.

. That’s not bad when you con-
sider he was up against 250 other
wheelchair athletes. But in
Paul’s drive for excellence, it

wasn’t good enough.

“Only a few of the best in
North America missed the
race,” he told us. ‘‘It was a great

~. field, though, so I can’t really
complain.”

Clark’s time was 39 minutes,
55 seconds. Two years ago, he

finished 17th in a time of 45

Clark 13th

15-kilometer .race two

They set a record for the third
annual Skeena River bicycle race
from Prince Rupert to Terrace,
but only because it was the first
time they raced from the coast to
interior. .

The: winning: time was four
hours, one minute, 41 seconds
— well off the opposite direc-
tion’ 8 time. from last year of

Four riders crossed the finish

line in a, pack, but the winner

was declared to be Terrace’s
Mike Christensen. ©.

- Given the same time, but tak-
ing second place .was- Mark
Henry of Prince Rupert. Tyler
Cochrane of Smithers also timed
in at 4:01.41, but was handed
third. place in the senior men’s
category. ne

First . place. . for. r;junior men

went. to- Guido’. “Schnelzer‘: of.

Rupert, who came® across’ the
end’ line with the: pack in

in “Wheels of Fire”

minutes, and the year prior to,
that, he suffered a broken arm
in this same event,

Clark spent some extra time in .
Seattle, working with one of the
few wheelchair constructors on —
the continent in building himself
a new racing chair.

The chair has more length to
correspond with . recent tule
changes. ;

“Pm off to Montreal Sept
2ist for their marathon, but I
doubt if I'll be allowed to race

my new chair which, by the way, |-

still needs more: work. towards:

Home entries best in

_conipletion,” he told us.

Following Montreal, Clark

. heads for Heidelberg, West Ger-
many to face top Europeans in.

another. : ‘marathon. He'll wind

‘up his 1989 season in November

with a~marathon at Oeda,
Japan. - — . a

4:01.41. Randy Huisman of
Smithers ‘was next —. two
minutes and five seconds s behind

Schnelzer. ..

- Terrace’s Chiron - ‘Kantakes
grabbed third ‘in 4:05.16.
Overall, it was Schnelzer fourth,

Huisman seventh and Kantakes |

10th. .
In. the senior. women’ s
category, Smithers’ Patti

Huisman was first in 4:52.38,
followed by Cheryl Steele of
Prince Rupert.
Deanne Hatfield of Houston
and Sandy Dyson of ‘Smithers
‘tied for third at 4:56.15.

In the master men’s section,
the. only rider was Karl Klein of

Ketchikan, ‘Alaska, who was
timed: in 4:04.55, good enough
for eighth overall. .

A. total: of 50 bikers entered
the race, but only 45 started
from the start:

_Four-way finish sets record in in bike race —

” site, 20 kilometers outside Ter-

in 4:54.58; .

line ‘at

MeDonald’s in Prince ‘Rupert.
Thirty-six crossed the finish line
by Terrace Chrysler.
There was. ‘one crash =-. Scott
Marineau of. Prince Rupert ran
into ‘the rear end of a support
vehicle. He was rushed to Mills
Memorial Hospital i in Terrace by
ambulance from the accident

Tace. .
He. was. ‘released later after
treatment.

‘Organizers said that among
the ‘dropouts,
numerous. flat tires: and
mechanical problems, plus, eX-
haustion.

Meanwhile, Christensen and
Kantakes —- both employees of
Sundance Ski and Sport store —.
_ are off to Kamloops and White
Rock on Labour Day weekend
for faces against top B. C. ‘com-
petitors.

‘The: scores are...

" STOCK ‘CARS

"RACE RESULTS FROM TERRACE | SPEEDWAY

“AUGUST 20, 4989

: SPORTSMAN TROPHY DASH .

* Fst Albert Weber -
‘2nd Herb Quast
ard. Ed. Johnson

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: (FROM RAINED-OUT AUG. 20 RACEDAY)

“Sportsman — Ernie Perkins

"A" Hobby — Phil Truscott

B’ Hobby — Wes Patterson
“A” Street — Fred Cline

- Jadies’ Northern. Open =]

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~ Smithers players: tapped most
-. of the flights at the annual
ladies’ Northern Open golf tour-
“nament in Smithers on Aug. 19
. weekend,. but ‘the top prize of
‘overall low gross went to Brenda’
Talkamp of Burns Lake.-
- The overall low net prize went
‘to Jane Wall of the host club..
_. Two airline flights donated by +
Canadian Airlines International
went to Smithers golfers. Merrill
Cox won a trip for two to Van-
couver for being closest to the
pin on a par-three hole.
Myrna Arnett won tickets to
anywhere-in western Canada as
a door prize.

net winners for all flights.

(Smithers); ‘A’ flight — Sherrie:
Fraser. (Smithers); ‘B’ fight =
Adeline Fraser (Smithers); ‘
flight:
(Smithers); extended flight —
Edith Gieselman (Terrace).

flight — Gail Johnson (Terrace);
‘A’ flight — Lana Long (Ter-
race); ‘B’ flight - — Cheryl Butler

— Sally Sandberg. (Smithers).

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available, we do have gross and |~".

Gross winners — champion- -
ship flight — Jan Dafoe —

‘Fiona Kerbrat

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