Flight Delayed until 1.42pm, Delaying Homecoming for Irish Paracycling Team After Successful UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Greenville, SC – USA
The flight with the successful Irish Paracycling team has been rescheduled, and will now arrive at 1.42pm today, Wednesday 3rd September. Due to a system error on the plane, US Airways flight 724 turned back to Charlotte, and the new arrival time and homecoming for the Paracycling Team is now 1.42pm into Terminal 2. This has been a phenomenal Championship for the Irish team, winning four medals, including two World Titles at the UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Greenville, SC.
The highlight of the weekend was Eoghan Clifford’s sensational gold medal debut, when he dominated the Men’s C3 events, winning the coveted Rainbow jersey. The Women’s Tandem of Katie-George Dunlevy and pilot Eve McCrystal won a silver medal in the road race, coming within a tyre width of winning gold. Paralympic Champion Mark Rohan brought the medal tally to four when he won bronze in the Men’s H2 time trial. The Championships ran from Friday 28th August until Monday the 1st September.
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Irish Team for 2014 UCI Para-Cycling Road World Championships
Mark Rohan, MH2 Time Trial, MH2 Road Race, from Ballinahown, Co. Westmeath
Colin Lynch, MC2 Time Trial, MC2 Road Race, from Cheshire in England
James Brown & Bryan McCrystal, MB Time Trial, MB Road Race, Brown from Stonehouse in England, McCrystal from Dundalk, Co. Louth
Katie-George Dunlevy & Eve McCrystal, WB Time Trial, WB Road Race, Dunlevy from Maidenhead in England, McCrystal from Dundalk, Co. Louth
Eoghan Clifford, MC3 Time Trial, MC3 Road Race, from Galway Bay CC, Co. Galway
Manager/Coach
Neill Delahaye
Mechanic
Gerry Beggs
Soigneur
Paula Kinsella
| Day 1 – Friday 28th August 2014 | Results | |||
| 2.15pm | Colin Lynch | M C2 Time Trial 16.6km | 5th (25.17.69) | |
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| Eoghan Clifford | M C3 Time Trial 16.6km | 1st GOLD (22.41.63) | |
| 5.15pm | Brown & McCrystal | M B Time Trial 24.9km | 9th (32.57.18) | |
| 5.15pm | Dunlevy & McCrystal | W B Time Trial 24.9km | 6th (36.54.32) | |
| Day 2 – Saturday 29th August 2014 |
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| 3pm | Mark Rohan | M H2 Time Trial 16.6km | 3rd BRONZE (31.16.53) | |
| Day 3 – Sunday 30th August 2014 |
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| 1pm | Eoghan Clifford | M C3 Road Race 71.4km | 1st GOLD | |
| 1.02pm | Colin Lynch | M C2 Road Race 61.2km | 10th | |
| 7.30pm | Brown & McCrystal | M B Road Race 102km | 17th | |
| 7.32pm | Dunlevy & McCrystal | W B Road Race 81.6km | 2nd SILVER | |
| Day 4 – Monday 1st September 2014 |
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| 1.02pm | Mark Rohan | M H2 Road Race 51km | 4th | |
About Classification in Paralympic Sport: Classification is a unique and integral part of Paralympic sport. It provides the structure to separate athletes with similar levels of impairments into groups, or classes as they are commonly known, so they can compete in fair and equal competitions against one another, and ensure that winning is determined by skill, fitness, power, endurance, tactical ability and mental focus. This same principle exists in non-Paralympic sports where athletes are classified according to age, gender or weight divisions to allow for as fair competition as possible.
In para-cycling there are fourteen classifications based on functional disability type. B refers to the tandems, where the stoker is blind or visually impaired, and the pilot is sighted. H represents the handcycling events, and C refers to cyclists on regular, but adapted, solo bikes, who may have cerebral palsy, limb impairments and amputations. In these events the categories have numbers denoting the level of impairment, the lower numbers the more severe the impairments and the higher less so.
For more information on Para-cycling visit:
http://www.uci.ch/para-cycling/about/