The Irish ladies's team pursuit team competed to an excellent bronze medal at the European track championships in Grenchen, Switzerland, on Wednesday evening, beating the Britain group in the bronze-medal final.
They tape-recorded a time of 4 mins 21.264 seconds, with Britain three and also a half seconds slower with 4:24.904.
The quartet of Emily Kay, Kelly Murphy, Alice Sharpe and also Mia Lion had finished third fastest in the certifying round of the females's group quest on Tuesday, and afterwards established a new nationwide record in the first round earlier on Wednesday.
Their time of 4:21.202 seconds defeated the nationwide document of 4:21.386 evaluated the track globe championships in February 2020. Three out of the four motorcyclists from Wednesday's squad had established the earlier document, particularly Murphy, Lion, and also Sharpe. The fourth cyclist, Lara Gillespie, gets on a break from racing and has actually been replaced by Kay at the European champions.
The Irish riders had a psychological edge heading right into the bronze-medal final despite a vastly better level of track success for Britain over several years. Their time from the session previously on Wednesday was nearly a second faster than the 4:22.048 set by the British, and also the group was also faster in Tuesday's qualifiers.
The result is an additional boost for Irish track cycling. In June of this year the squad won the women's group quest in the second round of the 2021 Track Cycling Nations Mug in St Petersburg, Russia. The country still has no indoor velodrome, however did have the reassurance on Monday that a commitment to develop a mixed velodrome as well as badminton centre was declared in the newly-launched National Growth Strategy 2021-2030.
Irish bikers presently need to take a trip to Mallorca to train at the indoor velodrome there, placing the nation at a downside to other nations. Britain has six interior velodromes, in addition to 20 exterior tracks. The island of Ireland has just 3 outside tracks, namely those in Dublin, Kanturk and also Belfast.
Previously at night, JB Murphy took a fine fifth in the guys's factors race. He finished degree on factors with the cyclist in fourth.
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