Ireland's Eoghan Clifford has taken victory in the MC3 Time Trial at the Paracycling World Road Championships in Notwil, Switzerland today.
The Galway native won the hilly, 31km test by 47 seconds from Germany's Steffen Warias.
Further details and full reaction to follow.
For full results during the Paracycling World Road Championships see:-
http://www.uci.ch/para-cycling/ucievents/event/uci-para-cycling-road-world-championship-nottwil-road-2015/50083/widgets/start-lists-results-170811/
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Irish Team for 2015 UCI Para-Cycling Road Championships, Nottwil, Switzerland
Colin Lynch, MC2 Time Trial, MC2 Road Race, from Cheshire in England
Peter Ryan & Dermot Radford, MB Time Trial, MB Road Race, both from Tipperary.
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
Coach – Neill Delahaye
Manager – Tommy McGowan
Mechanic – Gerry Beggs
Physiotherapist – Johnny Loughrey
PROVISIONAL Competition Schedule - Irish team at UCI Para-cycling Road World Championship
(All times quoted are Irish time; schedule may be subject to change)
Day 1 – Thursday 30th July 2015
8am Colin Lynch M C2 Time Trial 21km
1pm Ryan & Radford M B Time Trial 31km
1pm Dunlevy & McCrystal W B Time Trial 31km
1pm Eoghan Clifford M C3 Time Trial 31km
Day 2 –Saturday 1st August 2015
7am Colin Lynch M C2 Road Race 56km
8.30am Eoghan Clifford M C3 Road Race 56km
12pm Ryan & Radford M B Road Race 108.5km
12.02pm Dunlevy & McCrystal W B Road Race 77.5km
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 and also 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/