Darragh O'Mahony, fourth, attacked the final stage of the Junior Tour of Wales up Tumble Mountain and came away with the climbers' classification, which he took from the race winner (Photo: Tommy Heaney. Homepage photo by John Coleman of DC Images)
Darragh O’Mahony was the toast of the Irish at the Junior Tour of Wales today when he produced a superb display to take the King of the Mountains jersey.
The Munster Academy rider started the day fifth in the fight for that classification but did enough to overhaul overnight leader Nathan Draper (RST Racing Team) who won the race outright.
O’Mahony found himself in a number of escapes and when he was third over the opening ramp at Baverstocks after 15 kilometres he was back to within a point of Draper.
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The Irish teenager also took maximum points at the next climb after 48 kilometres; the category two ascent at Bwlch.
He met plenty of competition from both Alfie Moses (HMT Academy with JLT Condor) and Joey Walker (RST Racing Team) but managed to accumulate a fine tally of 13 points, two clear of Moses and Walker who were joint second.
From a general classification point of view it was disappointing for the Irish, with just Simon Tuomey (Munster Academy) finishing inside the top 20. He was 19th at 2:36.
O'Mahony riding the opening stage time trial on Saturday; wearing the green of Ireland in the test but riding for Team Munster (Photo: Tommy Heaney)
Adam Stenson (NRPT-Magnet.ie) started the final day nicely poised in sixth overall but he lost almost four minutes and slipped down to 24th overall at 3:21.
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It was a brilliant weekend for him though as he won yesterday’s penultimate stage, with the help of a fine team effort, and really threatened the best young rider classification before today.
Michael O’Loughlin (NRPT-Magnet.ie) would have hoped for better but when he wasn’t feeling well last week his chances of a good result were lessened considerably.
Still, there was plenty of aggression shown from the 12-strong Irish representation today, with O’Mahony, Jake Gray and Tuomey among those in some of the more dangerous moves on the final 89-kilometre stage to Tumble Mountain, where Eddie Dunbar wrapped up victory last year.
After O’Mahony today - who finished sixth on the stage - Jake Gray (NRPT-Magnet.ie) was next best in 10th at 1:32 while Tuomey was just outside the top 20.
Stage 5: Brynmawr - Tumble Mountain (89km)
1 Etienne Georgi Giant Cycling Club - Halo Films FJ1 6 2:13:03
2 Max Williamson Bike Box Alan/Envel FJ1 opemaster 0:05
3 Tom Chandler Sherwood Pines Cycles SRAM RT @s/t
4 Jack Billyard RP Racing Team @s/t
5 Karl Baillie HMT Ac J1 ademy with JLT Condor 0:28
6 Darragh O' Mahony Munster Academy 0:30
7 Charlie Meredith Giant Cycling Club - Halo Films @s/t
8 Cameron Biddle Solihull CC FJ2 0:35
9 Yentil Ruijmgaard Westland Wil Vooruit 1:09
10 Jake Gray Nicolas Roche Perf. Team - Magnet.ie 1:32
21 Simon Tuomey Munster Academy @1:55
26 Robert O' Leary Munster Academy 2:17
35 Michael O' Loughlin Nicolas Roche Perf. Team - Magnet.ie 3:02
36 James Curry Cycling Ulster @s/t
43 Sean Yelverton Munster Academy @3:48
46 Josh Lawerence Cycling Ulster @3:49
50 Adam Stenson Nicolas Roche Perf. Team - Magnet.ie @3:56
70 Marc Heaney Cycling Ulster @ 5:37
84 Alexis Roche Nicolas Roche Perf. Team - Magnet.ie @6:42
87 Cameron McIntyre Cycling Ulster @7:00
Final General Classification
1 Nathan Draper RST Racing Team 7:10:18
2 Max Williamson Bike Box Alan/Envelopemaster @ 0:02
3 Joey Walker RST Racing Team @ 0:08
4 Ethan Hayter VC Londres @ 0:19
5 Etienne Georgi Giant Cycling Club - Halo Films @0:20
6 Peter Kibble Wales FJ2Wal @ 0:51
7 Charlie Meredith Giant Cycling Club - Halo Films @1:12
8 Joseph Fry RST Racing Team @1:16
9 Jack Billyard RP Racing Team @ 1:21
10 Karl Baillie HMT Academy with JLT Condor @1:25
19 Simon Tuomey Munster Academy @ 2:36
23 James Curry Cycling Ulster @3:19
24 Adam Stenson Nicolas Roche Perf. Team - Magnet.ie @3:21
39 Darragh O' Mahony Munster Academy @ 5:56
42 Robert O' Leary Munster Academy@ 6:09
45 Jake Gray Nicolas Roche Perf. Team - Magnet.ie @ 6:38
55 Michael O' Loughlin Nicolas Roche Perf. Team - Magnet.ie @7:24
59 Sean Yelverton Munster Academy @ 7:34
60 Cameron McIntyre Cycling Ulster @ 8:19
62 Marc Heaney Cycling Ulster @ 8:27
73 Alexis Roche Nicolas Roche Perf. Team - Magnet.ie @11:19
78 Josh Lawerence Cycling Ulster @ 13:07
Points Classification
1 Joe Holt Team Wales 23 points
2 Etienne Georgi Giant Cycling Club - Halo Films 14
3 Robert Scott VCUK PH-MAS Junior Cycling Team 11
4 Matthew Walls Velocity Globalbike 10
5 Adam Stenson Nicolas Roche Perf. Team - Magnet.ie 8
Climbers' Classification
1 Darragh O' Mahony Munster Academy 13
2 Alfie Moses HMT Academy with JLT Condor 11
3 Joey Walker RST Racing Team 11
4 Nathan Draper RST Racing Team 9
5 Peter Kibble Wales 9
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