About 30 University of Canterbury students charged into the Avon River yesterday to take part in the annual Avon bike race held as part of Capping Week activities. Twenty official entrants, divided into five teams, plus several hangers-on, took part in the race, which meant cycling or running from Cathedral Square to the river opposite Noahs Hotel and wading from there to Victoria Square. One team member carried the bicycle and the others “fought off the opposition.”
The winners, a group of law students who called themselves “Don’s Bike,” covered the 800 m distance in 4min 20sec. Because the course was much shorter this year, the time could not be compared with previous years.
The competitors were cheered on and pelted with flour bombs by fellow students who gatheered, with members of the public, along the riverbank.
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