Lydia Boylan in winning mode against the pros two years ago. The Irish road and track international, and three-time elite road race champion, will ride for a new team on the road this year; Torelli-Assure.
Former national road race champion Lydia Boylan has signed for the Torelli-Assure team in Britain.
The Irish track and road international competed in the colours of the WNT-Rotor team in recent years.
However, she said at the end of last season she was moving on. Her immediate plans were to focus on the track.
But in the year ahead she has now decided to do her road racing with Torelli-Assure.
It has ridden many of Britain’s top flight races, including the British National Women’s Series and the Tour Series.
The team, which is based in England’s North-West, has also competed in the Revolution series on the track, Rás na mBan and regularly rides pro races in Europe.
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Boylan will join other Irish riders in what is an international line-up. Autumn Collins is also part of the team for the year ahead as is Deirbhle Ivory.
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Collins is an U23 international and while she has won Irish track titles she will focus on the road this year.
Ivory won gold at the Leinster track championships last year and silver in the track nationals in the team sprint.
Impressive palmares, top Irish win
Lydia Boylan’s three-year reign as national road race champion came to an end last June when Eve McCrystal won the title.
An accomplished road and track international, Boylan is currently part of the Irish track team trying to qualify for the Olympics.
She won a silver medal in the madison with Lydia Gurley at the European Track Championships two years ago.
Her best result, and the best ever by an Irish woman on the road, came three years ago. She claimed the final stage of the Setmana Ciclista Valenciana.
Also in the Torelli-Assure line-up next year is Sophie Thackray. She is a former British national cyclocross champion and a Team GB International.
Emily Kay will also ride for the team. She won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Australia last year.
She went on to win silver at the Europeans in Glasgow. More recently she took a gold and silver at the UCI World Cups.
Also part of the team is Georgia Mansfield, a former Scottish junior road race champion and senior madison champion.
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