Medal alert Team Ireland!! Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve mc Crystal got their first medal in the Para-Cycling World Championship in Portugal...Silver in the Tandem TT !! + very respectable results for the other Irish Warriors!!

Photos courtesy of FedPortCiclismo social media page and Cycling Ireland

Great news received from Cascais Portugal last night…the first medal been awarded to Team Ireland at the Worlds Para-cycling Champs with Katie-George Dunlevey and Eve Mc Crystal (Pilot) taking Silver in the Women’s Tandem TT. They finished the 33.6 km distance in 48minutes 59 seconds and only 31 seconds away from Gold…Katie told her social media followers “ ?in the time trial at the Road World Championships! Not what we were here for but hugely proud of us and our medal after what has been a long time without any racing. Loved being back at it with @evemccrystal and on a very windy motor racing course which was kinda fun ??. Onwards and upwards. A stepping stone to Tokyo. Road race on Saturday which I am extremely excited about” Knowing the girls, they will be encouraged with such results after such a long time away from international competition and will be the ones to watch in the road race this weekend. So well done girls xx

Time Trial Results from the other green warriors of Team Ireland

**Men’s TT C4 33.6km: Ronan Grimes 4th 47min 38 sec +2min36 sec from the winner and only 15 seconds away from bronze!!!**

Women’s C3 TT: Richael Timothy 5th 16.8km in 30min 2sec +3m 28″ Richael was in 3rd with one lap to go and her chain came off and lost a minute putting it on but still finished 5th. Best of luck Saturday in the Road Race xx

Men’s B-tandem TT: Damien Vereker & Marcin Mizgajski (Pilot) 9th The 33.6km in 44min 4sec +2m53s. Marcin told his social media followers “The 9th Place for me a Damien Vereker today in The Tandem Paracycling World Championships, we left absolutely everything we had on the road. Both worked extremely hard over the last 18 months to be where we are and very proud to represent Ireland” Good luck on Saturday’s RR lads.

**MC2 TT Men: Chris Burns 14th. The 25.2km in 39min 59sec +4m50s**

Today 2 more Team Ireland lads in action in their respective TT classes….Declan Slevin and Gary O’Reilly both hand cyclists. We wish them good luck this afternoon