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Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins lead going into final day of Ghent Six-Day
Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins (Team Saey – Calant) have maintained their lead on the fifth evening of racing at the Ghent Six-Day. The British pair still lead by one lap from two other pairings - Kenny De Ketele and Moreno De Pauw (Team Baloise Insurance) and Elia Viviani and Iljo Keisse (Team LIDL). Wiggins and Cavendish have 358 points with...
Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins take over lead at Ghent Six-Day
Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins (Team Saey - Calant) have taken over the lead at the Ghent Six-Day having gained a lap on their closest rivals on the fourth day of racing. The British pair now lead by a lap from previous race leaders Kenny De Ketele and Moreno De Pauw (Team Baloise Insurance) and Elia Viviani and Iljo Keisse...
Moreno De Pauw and Kenny De Ketele set new record at Ghent Six-Day (VIDEO)
The Belgian pair of Kenny De Ketele and Moreno De Pauw have set an impressive track record on the second night of the Six Days of Ghent. They set a time of 26.65" in the 500-metre time-trial which beat their previous record time of 26.90" which they had set on the opening night of the meet. The record time before this...
Ryan Mullen to line up at the Revolution Cycling Champions League
The list of riders to line up in the Revolution Cycling Champions League in Manchester has been announced and includes numerous Olympic and National champions. Amongst those lining up are Irish rider Ryan Mullen who finished in 5th place in the UCI Time-Trial Championships in Doha recently. Mullen will start alongside his Cannondale-Drapac team-mate Patrick Bevin. The Champions League was scheduled...
Irish riders take sixth and seventh places on final day of Apeldoorn World Cup
Sixth place for Lydia Gurley in the Points Race and seventh for the duo of Mark Downey and Felix English in the Madison at the Apeldoorn round of UCI Track Cycling World Cup concludes a successful few weeks for the Irish Track Team, who have secured two medals and 21 top ten performances over the past three major events,...
Ireland’s Mark Downey Wins Points Race Gold at Apeldoorn World Cup
Mark Downey has won the gold medal in the Men’s Points Race at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Apeldoorn today, finishing ahead of Morgan Kneisky from France and Sultanmurat Miraliyev from Kazakhstan. The Banbridge man is no stranger to the podium in this event having won silver in the European U23 Championships earlier this year. Downey’s...
Felix English just misses out on medal at UCI Track World Cup in Apeldoorn
Felix English marginally missed out on the podium finishing fourth in the Men’s Scratch Race at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup today in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. English has been consistently in the top five in this event over the past year, adding this fourth to his fifth place finish at the European Championships and fourth in the Track...
Cycling Ireland announce team for second round of UCI Track World Cup
Fresh from an encouraging outing in Glasgow, a compact Irish Team will be competing in the second World Cup on the UCI Track Cycling calendar for 2016/2017. Six riders will compete across seven events this coming weekend, with the competition running from the 11th – 13th November. Racing starts on Friday morning with Felix English in the Scratch...
Lydia Gurley set to line up at the Ghent Six-Day
Following on from her very impressive performances at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow last week, Ireland's Lydia Gurley has been listed amongst the starters set to line up at the Ghent Six-Day. Gurley from Athenry in Galway took fourth place in the Women’s Scratch Race in her debut Track World Cup debut last weekend. That fourth place...
Incredible fourth for Lydia Gurley in her debut World Cup Scratch Race
Ireland’s Lydia Gurley finished agonisingly close to a medal at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow today, with fourth place in the Women’s Scratch Race. Making her Track World Cup debut this weekend, Gurley has already shown immense talent finishing sixth in the Women’s Madison yesterday with Lydia Boylan. From Athenry in Galway, Gurley was one of...
Lydia Boylan and Lydia Gurley finish sixth in Madison at Track Cycling World Cup
The Irish pair of Lydia Boylan and Lydia Gurley finished sixth in the Women’s Madison at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow yesterday evening. The duo picked up seven points in the event that was introduced to the international race calendar in a measure to bring gender equity to the number of championship events. Great Britain were...
360-degree coverage of Six Day London 2016 (VIDEO)
The London Six-Day race finished last weekend with the Belgian pair of Moreno de Pauw and Kenny de Ketele taking the win ahead of Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish. The footage below from one of the derny races last week shows the racing from a unique perspective. A 360-degree camera was placed on the helmet of the derny driver who was...
Seventh place in World Cup Keirin for Shannon McCurley
This weekend the Irish Track Team is competing in the Glasgow at the first Track Cycling World Cup in the 2016/2017 season, in Glasgow, Scotland. The first day of racing in the three day event saw sprinter Eoin Mullen finish 27th with a qualifying time of 10.283 and the Women’s Team Pursuit finish tenth in a time of 4.42.204....
Cycling Ireland announce team for Track World Cup in Glasgow
This weekend will see the Irish Track Team tackle the first of the World Cups on the track cycling calendar. Fresh from competition at the European Championships in Paris last month, a compact team of six riders will compete in the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow from the 4-6 November. Racing begins on Friday with the Irish interest...
De Ketele & De Pauw retain Six Day London title in incredible fashion (VIDEO)
The Belgian pair Moreno de Pauw and Kenny de Ketele took their second consecutive Six Day London title after denying home favourites Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish the victory. De Pauw and De Ketele had led the competition from midway through the second day until midway through the fifth. However, Wiggins and Cavendish took the lead on the penultimate night...
Plugger Bill Martin – The Dublin-born cyclist who became “champion of the world”
By Graham Healy One of the most remarkable cyclists ever to emerge from Ireland, is a name that may be unfamiliar to many - "Plugger" Bill Martin. Not only did he make his mark with his performances on the bike, but he has also been credited with some innovations which helped to revolutionise the sport. Amongst the wins that Martin took...