Another great show from Sam in Mayo today. He won todays stage in a sprint finish to remain second behind Philip Lavery at 3 seconds. Good luck tomorrow Sam !
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Sam Bennett is well positioned at the end of todays stage in Westport. After pulling back a dangerous move from the Isle of Man riders which had gained 2 minutes with 20 miles to go, Sam eventually gave up the yellow jersey by 3 seconds to Stena Ireland teamate, Philip Lavery. Well done Sam and good luck tomorrow.
Sam is in yellow after the first stage of the Junior tour tonight in Castlebar. Sam won the 4km prologue TT by 0.13 ahead of Mark Christian of Isle of Man. Marcus Christie of Usher was 3rd at 7 seconds. Well done Sam !
Bobby Powers race report (this will appear in the local papers).. 2008 has been a great year to date for the Dan Morrissey Carrick Wheelers team but last weekend has topped the lot with three All Ireland titles coming to the club. In Sam Bennett the club has claimed to have the best junior cyclist in the country and on…
Emma Walsh of Dungarvan CC (who came 9th in the ladies champs at the weekend in her first race season – well done Emma!) sent us in some pretty darn fantastic pictures of Sams national championship win, as well as some of our competitors in the Senior race. I will put a couple up here in honor of Sams…
Congratulations to Sam Bennett who today claimed his first (but no doubt not the last!) Irish Road Racing championships from Mayo’s Charles Prendergast in a thrilling race. Sam was not listed as a favourite in some quarters (you know who you are !) but for those in the know i.e. those who had seen him dominating a field of A riders in…
Martin O’Loughlin won his second national championships in 12 months in Newcastle on Friday. Martin rode a stunning time of 1:05:43 to take the veterans title ahead of Mark Greer and our own Rory Wyley. Sean McIlroy finished 10th, whilst in the Senior race Kevin Shelly, Hugh Mulhearne and Cathal McCarthy put in storming times to finish 7th, 9th and 10th respectivley…
Scott Bennett followed in the wheel tracks of his older brother Sam when he won the Dan Morrissey Carrick Wheelers promoted O’Ceallacháin’s Beginners League in fine style on Monday evening last. Sam won the league when it was promoted in Seskin Wood on mountain bikes and has since gone on to bigger and better things on the road, and now…
Monday night saw the annual WorldWideCycles TT take place in near ideal conditions. Kevin Shelly went one better than his 2nd place in last last weeks Waterford TT, taking a very convincing first place on the night in a time of 20:51, more than a minute quicker than the nearest challenger. Well done Kevin.
Sam Bennett’s season rolls on and the wins keep coming. Using his fathers winter training bike, pictured above (actual bike not pictured, but at this stage Sam could beat most of us riding the bike in the picture!), Sam took victory in the A race ahead of Maurice O’Brien, Dennis Lynch, Michael Fitzgerald and Michael Hennessy. Martin O’Loughlin did a great job leading…
Congratulations to Hugh Mulhearne on a fantastic victory in the hotly contested (48 riders) Comeragh CC / Altitude Sports and Outdoors summer series TT race in Waterford on Tuesday night. Hugh has been out ill quite a bit this year but he was back with a bang on a cold rainy night in Waterford, covering the 10miles+ course in 19:04….
The penultimate round of our league saw some very exciting racing with a different winner on the night once again. And things couldn’t be tighter with four riders separated by only 3 points at the top of the overall standings! Scott Bennett showed that there’s more than one talented cyclist in the family when he took the win by…
It was another great weekend for the club in Westport Co. Mayo when our riders took to the road for the prestigious RAS Connachta. The highlights were Martin O’Loughlin taking 4th on stage one, 1st on the final stage and 5th overall, whilst Mark Power has held his form from the RAS to finish a superb second overall behind Brian…
The sun shone brightly on the 18 participants in our beginners and underage league. At the end of a great evening’s racing, it’s all changed at the top of the leaderboard. Girl power was in evidence tonight, with the top two spots on the podium filled by Caoimhe Kelly and newcomer Payton Redman. Payton was very unlucky to lose time…
Congratulations to Martin O’Loughlin on yet another fine win in the B/C/Jun/Vet Kevin McInerney Memorial in Dunlavin Co. Wicklow on Sunday last. Martin was in the thick of things all day along with teammate Diarmuid Carew. In the end Martin tried to lead out Diarmuid for a well deserved win, but with the fast finishing Aaron Bugle closing fast, had…
Congratulations to Mark Power on the superb achievement of winning the Senior 2 category in the FBD Insurance RAS. This accolade will look rather nice next to his Senior 2 championship gold medal from last year on the mantlepiece ! Joe Fenlon whose comeback season continues to be a constant string of successes came second in the overall county rider…
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