Indurain Extends Streak With a Victory in Italy

Miguel Indurain of Spain won the Tour of Italy cycling race Sunday, retaining his championship and stretching to three his winning streak in Europe’s most prestigious cycling competitions.

Indurain also won the Tour of Italy and Tour de France last year.

Indurain, who held the pink jersey as the overall leader continually after the 15th stage, finished the 21-stage tour with a time of 98 hours 9 minutes 44 seconds and a 58-second margin over runner-up Piotre Urgumov of Latvia.

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The women’s U.S. Cycling Team and Team Shaklee won the time trial events on the opening day of the National Cycling Championships at Dublin, Ohio.

The U.S. Cycling Team--Jan Bolland of New Brighton, Pa., Dede Demet of Milwaukee, Jeanne Golay of Glenwood Springs, Colo., and Even Stephenson of Covington, La.--won the 70-kilometer women’s event by 54 seconds.

Team Shaklee--Kent Bostick of Corrales, N.M., Andy Lawson and Scott Mercer of Boulder, Colo., and Eric Zaltas of Berkeley--won the 100-kilometer men’s team time trial by more than two minutes. The men’s U.S. Cycling Team, the defending champions in this event, lost a rider in the first 75 kilometers and finished fourth.

Miscellany

Karch Kiraly and Kent Steffes won their fifth tournament in a row and eighth overall this year by defeating Mike Dodd and Mike Whitmarsh, 7-1, at the $75,000 Miller Lite Open at Seaside Heights, N.J. In the women’s final, Nancy Reno and Holly McPeak defeated Jackie Silva and Linda Hanley, 17-15. . . . Merlene Ottey of Jamaica ran the fastest 100 meters by a woman this year, an 11.09, at the Zeiss-Gala track meet at Jena, Germany. . . . Grey Giovanine, an assistant at Rice, was hired as basketball coach at Lamar. . . . The U.S. women’s national soccer team clinched a berth in the championship match of the first Ohio Women’s International Soccer Extravaganza, beating Canada, 7-0, at Galbreath Field in Cincinnati, site of the title game. The U.S. (2-0) will play Italy on Tuesday at Mansfield, Ohio.