Ireland's Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal have been honoured in the Tatler Women of the Year Awards for 2021.
The cycling tandem duo scooped the 'Sport' award at the annual bash ahead of a whole host of Irish sporting women in what was a bumper year for women's sport in Ireland.
Kellie Harrington, who won gold in the ring at the Tokyo Olympics, was named overall Tatler Woman of the Year, seeing off high achievers across all areas of Irish life.
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But in a year when some of our Irish Olympians and Paralympians excelled and when the likes of jockey Rachael Blackmore, golfer Leona Maguire and cricketer Amy Hunter - to name but a few - excelled, it was Dunlevy and McCrystal who scooped the sports award.
They went to the Paralympics as favourites for a medal, but with all of the pressure that status brings onto any athlete.
However, the opened their campaign with a silver medal in the pursuit on the track before winning gold in the TT and doing it again in the road race to become the poster girls of the Irish team in Tokyo.
They were also crowned champions in Rio in 2016 and since those Games they have won five world titles on the road; three in the TT and two in the road race.
Irish Tatler Woman of the Year
- Special recognition - Sarah Grace
- Sport - Eve McCrystal and Katie-George Dunlevy
- Media - Katie Hannon
- Fashion - The Tweed Project
- Music - Tolü Makay
- Catalyst - FeliSpeaks aka Felicia Olusanya
- Innovation - Dr Fiona Edwards Murphy
- Business - Hertility Health
- Public Life - Maeve O’Rourke and Claire McGettrick - The Clann Project
- Literature - Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
- Drama - Clare Dunne
- Art & Design - Jude Sherry
- STEM - Dr Linda Doyle
- Entertainment - Joanne McNally
- The Woman of the Year 2021 - Kellie Harrington
