Tag: para cycling

Dunlevy and Kelly Crowned World Champs

Katie George Dunlevy and Linda Kelly are world champions after they stormed to gold in the Women’s B Time Trial at the Para-cycling World Championships in Dumfries on Thursday, August 10th.  In a successful day for Ireland at the UCI Cycling World Championships, the tandem duos victory was underlined by several top ten performances – […]

Positive Day On Track For Ireland At UCI Cycling World Championships

Para Tandem team compete against French team and narrowly lead at this stage of the race

Ireland enjoyed a largely positive day in the UCI World Championships on Monday, August 7th, as the majority of the action saw the focus firmly on the track in Glasgow.  There were encouraging performances for Chris Burns, Richael Timothy and men’s tandem duo Martin Gordon and Eoin Mullen in the Para-cycling Track World Championships while Alice Sharpe and Lara […]

Katie George Dunlevy And Eve McCrystal Deliver Bronze

Katie George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal delivered Ireland’s second medal of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships on Friday, August 4th.   The women’s tandem pair took victory in the bronze medal ride against France, leading from the opening time split to take a resounding win.   Reunited on the track after missing the 2022 […]

Para Cycling team bag 4 medals in the Paracycling Road World Cup

The Para Cycling team completed in the first round of the Paracycling Road World Cup in Ostend, Belgium last weekend, there was a strong contingent of riders from the Irish National squad and development squad supported by Cycling Ireland. Not only was it the first race of the season for many, it was also the […]

Five RTÉ Sports Awards nominations for Team Ireland

As 2021 draws to a close, so does the Irish sporting year, one that has been extremely busy with plenty of success across Irish sport. Irish Paralympians have enjoyed a huge amount of that success in 2021, particularly at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. This success has been recognised in various media outlets, such as […]

World Championship Gold for Dunlevy and McCrystal

Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal have won a 3rd World Title in the time trial at the UCI Paracycling World Championships. The pair retained their rainbow jerseys in emphatic style as they averaged 45.612km/h for the 31.2km course, giving them a winning margin of 55 seconds over New Zealand.    As well as their time […]

Katie George and Eve Win Gold for Ireland

Katie George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal maintained their dominance on the road as they produced two stunning performances to win gold on the double at the Para Cycling World Cup in Ostend. The double world champions were determined to put down a marker for the remainder of the season especially as they look forward to […]

ParaCycling Teams compete in Italy and Belgium

The Cycling Ireland Irish Paracycling team are currently competing in Corridonia at the first of two Paracycling World Cup events in the space of a week. A strong team of Declan Slevin, Ronan Grimes, Peter Ryan & Anthony Walsh, Damien Vereker & Marcin Mijayski, Richael Timothy and Gary O’Reilly are currently competing in Italy where […]

Paralympic Cycling Champion Presents Revolutionary Research Findings

Aerodynamic science reveals new insights that can change Paralympic and World Championship podiums   The importance and prestige of Paracycling is on the rise, but insight in Paracycling aerodynamics is very limited. Therefore, researchers from NUI Galway (Ireland), Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) and KU Leuven (Belgium) have used advanced technologies such as engineering […]

Colin Lynch Announces Retirement

Paralympic Silver medalist, Colin Lynch, has confirmed today that he is retiring from Paralympic Cycling. Colin is a multiple world championship medalist and achieved his ultimate aim of paralympic glory at the Rio2016 Paralympic Games. Colin announced his retirement with a statement earlier today, an extract of that statement is visible below. All in Paralympics […]

McCrystal Eyeing Gold at Para Cycling Track World Championships

 A 13 person para cycling team has landed in the Netherlands ahead of the 2019 Para Cycling Para Cycling Track World Championships that are being hosted in Appeldoorn between Thursday March 14th and Sunday, March 17th. The strong Irish team will include former World Championship bronze medallists, Katie George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal. The tandem […]