Ben Healy Top-10 in the World for Third Consecutive Year
Ben Healy has today taken a top-10 at the UCI Road Cycling World Championships for the second consecutive year, having taken bronze at the 2025 Worlds in Rwanda.
Jamie Meehan went in the early breakaway, less than 10km into the 273km race, and pulled out a lead of over 8 minutes with 16 other riders. With 175km to go Healy and Ryan Mullen moved to the front of the main group before the race entered the smaller, punchy circuit, and after a 100km of graft Mullen abandoned.
Meehan’s breakaway was pulled back with just over 100km to go, but with just over 90km left another break went with Healy in the mix. That move was pulled back before another group went away, leaving Healy with work to do to bridge across.
The battle of attrition persisted, whittling down the group, before an attack from eventual winner Brandon McNulty stuck. Healy tried to bridge across but ultimately finished 10th with the group shattering on the final drag to the line.
Healy said afterwards: “Gave it everything. The lads were great for me out there today and left it out on the road, something we can really be proud of.” He added: “I wanted to get out ahead of the big guns you know, and I feel like I’ve good legs at the moment. Maybe I went too early on reflection but you know, like I said, left it all out there for a similar move that might have been the one that stuck.”