1992 European Short-Course Championships

The 1992 European Short-Course Championships were in Lommel, Belgium on 5th July. Simon Lessing was the defending champion. These were the non-drafting but we-are-actually-kind-of-drafting days. Except for Spencer Smith. He was pumping away off the front on his beam-bike.

There was no internet back then. So my source for results was the Tuesday editon of The Daily Telegraph. I was pretty stunned to read about the GBR podium-sweep. It certainly motivated me to keep training hard and improve my placings in the second edition of 220 Triathlon Series.

I really thought Cook’s career was heading slowly downhill at this point. But I certainly didn’t have the courage to tell him that the next time we met up for the Wednesday ride. Next to the post-box outside the Eastbourne Campus of the University of Brighton.

Three weeks after Lommel he won the European Long-Distance Championships in Finland. Probably his second best career result after Avignon. I recently got hold of the 220 with the report in. Blog post coming soon.