World Sprint Championship August 31, 1954
CYCLING WEEKLY|February 27, 2020
Britain’s Reg Harris (foreground) defeats title holder Arie van Vliet of the Netherlands in the finals of the world professional sprint championship in Cologne, Germany.
World Sprint Championship August 31, 1954

It had been three years since Harris’s previous run of victories in the discipline from 1949 to 1951, but here he showed he still had what it took at the age of 34.

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