Nicolas Roche and Sam Bennett have both entered the Cycling Ireland National Road Championships, which take place in Co Wicklow next week.
Neither Roche (Team DSM) nor Bennett (Deceuninck-QuickStep) are part of the Irish team at the World Road Championships in Flanders this week. However, they have entered the Irish championships and now look set to do battle for the coveted Irish title next week.
Bennett is coming back from injury. He also withdrew from the Worlds team, saying a race over 260km was perhaps a bit too much for him at this stage. However, he has now entered the nationals and hopefully that goes according to plan, and his trade team does not have other plans for him.
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Roche has been Irish road race champion twice – 2009 and 2016 – and was TT champion in 2007 and 2016. Bennett won the road race crown in Derry two years ago.
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Entries for all the championships
TTs closed at midnight last night, with the title races set to take place on
Thursday of next week, September 30th.
Entries for the senior women’s and junior
men’s road races close at midnight this Saturday, September 25th and
those races take place on Saturday, October 2nd.
The elite-U23 men’s road race and the junior women’s road race are both on Sunday, October 3rd. Entries for those events close at midnight this Sunday, September 26th.
National Road Champs: The Details
- Junior Men Road Race,
Saturday 2nd October – 9am | 96km | Route Map| Entries Close
25th September (midnight) | Enter Here - Senior Women and Masters Women Road Race, Saturday 2nd October – 1pm | 93km | Route Map | Entries Close 25th
September (midnight) | Enter Here - Junior Women Road Race, Sunday 3rd October – 9am | 77km | Route Map| Entries
Close 26th September (midnight) |Enter Here - Senior Men Road Race incorporating U23, Sunday 3rd October – 12noon | 160km | Route Map | Entries Close 26th
September (midnight) | Enter Here
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