The final race had (left to righti Kelvin Tatum, Sam Ermolenko, Erik Gundersen, Simon Cross, Shawn Moran and Hans Nielsen dicing.
Moran dives undern eat h Sweden's Jimmy N ilsen, whi le England's Tatum
watches closely from behind.
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Pairs Final
Americans Moran (14) and Ermolenko (13) led Valentino Furlanetto (2 ),
Piotr Swist (8 ) and Armando Castagna in the fourth race .
The winning Denmark team - Hans Nielsen (left) and Erik Gundersen.
Second place went to England followed by the U.S.
Danes claim
third straight ¥/.in
By John Hipkiss
BRADFORD, ENGLAND, JULY 31
Sam Ermolenko shouldered the responsibility for America's failure in the nine-nation
World Pairs Final where the USA team
could not improve on last year's third placing beh ind the reigning champions Denmark and host country England.
. .
The 27-year-old n der from
26
Maywood, California, who rode as
partner to ~hawn Mor!!n -and i~ t.he
only Amencan to be in the Individual World Final in Denmark next
month ' - blamed himself for their
defeat after twice dropping valuable
points in the early qualifying heats.
He was looking good in his first
race when he hit a rut and was almost
thrown out of the saddle. He reco-
vered well ~u~ could Iinishonly fif.th
~or one pom t, The Amencan p~lr·
mgs bounced back to take full pom ts
from their next race whe n Ermolen ko won with Moran safely tucked
in beh in d. But the n came disaster
when Sud den Sam changed his gears
for the third heat and again trai led
home in fifth spot.
"I made a hash of tha t o ne,"
admitted Ermolenko. " I chose the
wrong gearing completely and I just
did not have the speed.
" H ad it not been for those two
mistakes we could have been in the
