Ex-pro Ciaran Power's Garmin data for Cycleways Cup winning ride

Former Grand Tour rider Ciaran Power, leading, sprinted in for the first win of his comeback this year at Navan on Sunday and has posted his data (Photo: Sean Rowe)

He's won the Rás, ridden the Giro d'Italia, been National Criterium Champion and was a pro for more years than he cares to remember.

But the joy on Ciaran Power's face when winning the A2 race at the Cycleways Cup in Navan on Sunday showed his love for cycling - and winning - is undiminished.

The 39-year-old sprinted in to claim victory in the event in just his second race of the season after what is something of another comeback.

Sprinting in to win in Navan at the Cycleways Cup on Sunday (Photo: Sean Rowe)

The Waterford man had been due to return last year and ride the Rás, but the death of his mother understandably put those plans on ice.

But he's back with a bang now and posted his Garmin data for his winning ride on Sunday, which you will find below.

After a very good amateur career from the time he was a schoolboy, Power turned pro with the Linda McCartney team.

Ciaran Power (centre) sprints to 5th place in the bunch gallop that settled stage 3 in the Giro d’Italia 2000

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He rode the Giro in 2000 as a first-year pro and managed two top ten stage placings; 5^th and 6^th.

But then on the eve of the following season the team unexpectedly folded leaving Power and Ireland’s former world junior champion Mark Scanlon high and dry.

Power later joined the US Navigators team where he rode alongside former Irish national road race champion David O’Loughlin - who is also making a comeback at home this season.

As well as winning the FBD Ras twice – in 1998 and 2002 – Power won seven stages in the race. He scored pro victories in the UK, the US, Canada and Egypt.

Ciaran Power leads Johan Museeuw and Michele Bartoli into the finish of stage 6 of the Tirreno-Adriatico in 2000 while riding for Linda McCartney (Photo: Sirotti)

A double Olympian, he finished 13^th in the road race in Athens in 2004; a result that remains the best ever by an Irish road cyclist.

He spent much of that race in Athens in the breakaway and as a genuine threat for a medal.

He retired from international racing in 2008 and later established his own sports therapy business, which he continues with and through which he imparts invaluable therapy and advice to a range of amateur and top international athletes.

(Contact Ciaran Power sports therapist and coach, 086 2154797)