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Kelly Murphy sets new outdoor National Record

The times keep tumbling for Irish cyclists in the velodrome as Richael Timothy set a new personal best in her C1-C3 500m time trial event today. The Roscommon rider, has been using the track to build racing pace for the road, her main focus event.

Ronan Grimes showed total consistency through out this morning’s 4000 metre Time Trial races as he finished with two personal bests and a fourth place in the event.

The 2021 National Road Series has been reduced to four rounds with the withdrawal of the Shay Elliott Memorial race.

Katie George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal have set a new personal best time and national record in their first Paralympics event on the track. The pair began their campaign this morning on the wooden boards of the Izu Velodrome, near Shizuoka, south of Tokyo racing in the B3 tandem 1000 metre Time Trial.

Ronan Grimes has completed his first peddle strokes in competition here in Japan with a new personal best (PB) in the 1000 metre Time Trial. In steep competition at the Izu Veldrome the Athenry man has shown his mettle and achieved his first goal of setting a new PB time of 1:08.262 which was a second and a half faster that his previous best of 1:09.438.

UCI racing will come to the Co Tipperary town of Clonmel over the weekend of the 16th and 17th of October with the first edition of the world ranked Cross Clonmel.

Irish cyclist Richael Timothy launched Ireland’s Paralympic cycling campaign this morning shaving 14 seconds off her personal best.

The Youth Commission AGM will take place on 16th September 2021

Junior Downhill World Champion, Oisín O’Callaghan, will be out to defend his world title this weekend at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Val di Sole, Italy.

Cycling Ireland is pleased to announce the 2021 Senior Track Cycling National Championships will be live streamed from Sundrive Velodrome on YouTube and Facebook. The marquee event takes place on Saturday, August 28th and Sunday, August 29th with the action getting underway from 9:30am each morning.

This is the second notification of Cycling Ireland Off-road Commission Annual General Meeting (AGM). This meeting will take place on Monday 6 September 2021 at 20:30 and will be done via a Zoom call. Please note that pre-registration is required in order to gain access to the virtual AGM.

The 2021 Youth Road National Championships took place in Gorey, Co. Wexford on 21st – 22nd August hosted by Gorey CC.

Cycling Ireland Youth Commission and Street Games are working together to understand more closely what young people across the island of Ireland think and feel about cycling and how we can encourage more young people to get on their bikes in the future.

A total of 13 riders represented Ireland at the UEC Junior and U23 European Track Cycling Championships from 17th to 22nd August in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. On the opening day of competition, Lara Gillespie claimed silver in the Individual Pursuit at the U23 European Track Cycling Championships.

Róisín Mooney of Pilates le Róis will be delivering a series of mobility sessions specifically for Cycling Ireland members on the Training Hub.

Gravel Grind West taking place on September 17th and 18th in Westport, will bring the biggest gravel biking event of its kind ever to be held in the Republic of Ireland to Westport, the adventure capital of Ireland.

A challenging new mountain stage finish and an all-new opening stage with a circuit finish in Callan, County Kilkenny are the highlights of the 2021 Rás na mBan route announcement made today.

The much anticipated Tokyo Paralympic Games is just around the corner. A team of 29 athletes will represent Ireland, seven of which make up Team Ireland’s strong para-cycling squad for the games. Team Ireland’s para-cycling squad will compete on the track and on the road in Tokyo and includes individual and tandem athletes.

Thanks to a collaboration between Cycling Ireland, Paralympics Ireland, Eindhoven University of Technology, NUI Galway, Ansys and KU Leuven, Ireland’s Tokyo-bound paracycling squad can race with confidence.