Cycling Ireland Announces Team For Paracycling Track World Championships
Cycling Ireland have announced their team for the UCI Paracycling Track World Championships which take place next month from October 20th to October 23rd. A team of nine Irish athletes will compete in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris in what is their last major competition goal for 2022. Tokyo Paralympics silver medallists Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal will […]
Grimes Claims Para Cycling World Track Silver Medal for Ireland
IRELAND’S Ronan Grimes has won Silver in the MC4 Scratch Race at the Para-cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn on St Patrick’s Day. The 30-year-old from Athenry in Galway had been inching closer to a World Medal throughout the Championships at the Omnisport Arena, as had the whole of the Irish team, with Katie-George Dunlevy […]
Team Ireland enjoy positive start at Para Track World Championships
Katie-George Dunlevy and pilot Eve McCrystal and Martin Gordon and pilot Eamon Byrne warmed up for their target events at the Para-cycling World Championships by finishing second in the Tandem Sprint Relay test event. It was a trial run for the race, and did not earn the foursome any medals, but they did take […]
Para Athletes Honoured
Irish Para Athletes were honoured at the end of season awards for both Swim Ireland and Cycling Ireland over the weekend. The Swim Ireland awards took place in Clare on Saturday night where the great of Irish swimming were recognised after a long and successful season. Amongst that number were the Irish Para Swimming squad […]
Dunlevy and McCrystal Win the Double Double – Defending Second World Title at Para-cycling Road World Championships
Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal have defended their second world title at the UCI 2018 Para-cycling Road World Championships in Maniago, Italy today, winning the Women’s B Tandem Road Race in style. They add this to the Time Trial title they defended last Friday. The Paralympic Champions were competing in the 81.6km Road Race, […]
Team Ireland Set for Road World Cup in Belgium
The UCI Para-Cycling Road World Cup gets under way tomorrow, Thursday May 3rd, when Team Ireland compete against the best in the world in Ostend, Germany. A strong group have been named for the competition including Katie George Dunlevy & Eve McCrystal, Peter Ryan & Séan Hahessy, Damien Vereker & Dermot Radford, Ronan Grimes andDeclan Slevin. The Development […]
Fourth for Dunlevy and McCrystal, Sixth for Gordon and Byrne
Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal finished fourth, and just outside the medals in the Women’s B Tandem Sprint at the UCI 2018 Para-cycling Track World Championships tonight. Their qualifying time of 11.892 seconds was an incredible 3.5 seconds faster than the current national record of 12.259 seconds. The eventual winners were the Great Britain bike […]
Dunlevy Honoured at UCI Awards
Ireland’s double Para Cycling World Champions, Katie George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal, were honoured this week a the UCI Cycling Gala which was held in Guilin, China. This was the third UCI Cycling Gala which honours the greatest achievements in road cycling. Amongst a galaxy of international cycling stars was our own Katie-George Dunlevy who, […]
