2 more medals on day 2 for Team Ireland!!
Men C4 Pursuit Final (Ronan Grimes Bronze)
Grimes broke the Irish Record to qualify for the bronze medal ride, lowering the mark to 4:45.045 for the 4-kilometre test. In the race for Bronze, Grimes lined up against Jason Marcon of the USA. The two riders were separated by 0.1 of a second in qualification, putting pressure on Grimes to improve on this in the fight for bronze. Grimes delivered in the afternoon session setting a second Irish Record, a stunning 4:43.806 to win bronze for Ireland. Marcon also bettered his qualification time to ride 4:44.537. “I’m really happy with that performance. The qualifiers in the morning were really tight, there was a second between second, third and fourth” Ronan commented after the race. “I knew I was in for a hard ride in the afternoon but luckily I delivered. The plan that we set out for the afternoon, my laps were a lot smoother. I’m delighted to come away with that medal.” (report courtesy of CI)
| Place | Name | Team |
|---|---|---|
| Gold | METELKA, Jozef | SLOVAKIA |
| Silver | NOVAK, Carol-Eduard | ROMANIA |
| Bronze | GRIMES, Ronan | IRELAND |
Women C3 Omnium Final (Richael Timothy Bronze in the scratch race and 5th overall)
| Gold | WANG, Xiaomei | PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA |
| Silver | BROWN, Clara | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA |
| Bronze | TIMOTHY, Richael | IRELAND |
| Place | Name | Team | Pursuit | TT | 200m | Scratch | Total Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | BROWN, Clara | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | 38(2) | 40(1) | 38(2) | 38(2) | 154 |
| Silver | WANG, Xiaomei | PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA | 32(5) | 38(2) | 40(1) | 40(1) | 150 |
| Bronze | SCHINDLER, Denise | GERMANY | 36(3) | 36(3) | 34(4) | 34(4) | 140 |
| 4 | WHITMORE, Jamie | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | 30(6) | 34(4) | 36(3) | 32(5) | 132 |
| 5 | TIMOTHY, Richael | IRELAND | 28(7) | 32(5) | 32(5) | 36(3) | 128 |
| 6 | BECK, Anna | SWEDEN | 34(4) | 30(6) | 30(6) | 30(6) | 124 |
Other great performances
Chris Burns was also in action in the Men’s C2 Scratch Race (omnium) where he finished 8th and a personal best in the Kilo
Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal were back on the track yesterday evening and continued their good form breaking the Irish Record for the Women’s Tandem Kilo TT. Their time of 1:10.248 saw them finish just outside the medals in 5th
Martin Gordon and Eamonn Byrne managed a 10th in the Men’s Tandem TT yesterday and today (Sunday morning) they are competing in the 200m TT…we wish them good luck. The results of the Tandem Pursuit below
10 GORDON, Martin
Pilot: BYRNE, EamonnIRELAND 1:03.747 56.473 kph 18 VEREKER, Damien
Pilot: MIZGAJSKI, MarcinIRELAND 1:07.334 53.465 kph 19 RYAN, Peter
Pilot: WALSH, AnthonyIRELAND 1:07.445 53.377 kph
