28 March

Irvine secures tenth place in the Men's Omnium at the World Track Cycling Championships. Irvine has been consistently strong in the individual TT efforts, and placed well in the points race in the overall standings. With the track season over until September, Irvine and Ryan along with the rest of the Irish Squad will now be switching their focus to the Road.

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25 March

Ninth for Ryan in the Individual Pursuit, and  Irvine sets up his World Championship bid sitting in 6th place in the Men's Omnium.

Day three of the Track Cycling World Championships saw two Irish riders in action. Caroline Ryan, who narrowly missed out on a medal at the Cali World Cup, rode a solid race in the Women's Individual Pursuit. Ryan claimed ninth place in a highly competitive event, which was won by the reigning World Champion Sarah Hammer (USA) in a time of 3.33.522. The Apeldoorn velodrome is widely acknowledged as being a "slow" track, due the bowl shape, proven by Hammer's time being 11 seconds slower than her own World Record! Ryan, in a time of 3.44.264 started off hard, holding 5th place in the opening kilometre.

Martyn Irvine is lying in 6th place after two events in the Men's Omnium. This 6 race event will span two days, and following a 7th place in the opening flying lap, and a solid 11th place in the points race, Irvine is in a good position at this point, as his forte lies in the time trial events which will take place tomorrow (Saturday).

Photos of the event can be seen in our gallery HERE  coutesy of Myles from Bikepure.

TV coverage is on Eurosport and BBC all weekend, and live results can be found on www.tissottiming.com .