Philip Lavery - in the yellow of French club AC Bisontine - has taken another win in France today and is now in with a very strong shout of a trial with a pro team for the remainder of the season.
A silver medalist at the Elite National Road Race Championships in Carlingford, Co Louth two weeks ago, Dubliner Philip Lavery has continued his excellent run on form to date this season with another French victory today, Sunday.
He was first to the line in the Prix de la Chapelle-lès-Luxeuil, a 121km race in the Haute-Saône department of eastern France. Today’s win is the latest in a series of triumphs for Lavery since he relocated there this year to ride for AC Bisontine.
On May 20th he took victory in the Prix des Vallons in Schweighouse-sur-Moder. The race was the third of six rounds of the DN2 Coupe de France after opening his 2013 account with a win in the Tour du Charolais.
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That latter victory came in the earlier part of the season, but victory in the Souvenir Jean Lacroix came in the first week in May. And he followed that up just four days later when he won the opening stage of the Tour de Franche Comté in eastern France. He was quickest in the sprint to the line from a breakaway group of seven men.
That win brought him the yellow jersey and was his best victory since moving to France earlier this year. The four-day, five-stage, event is a major fixture that attracts many of the top teams in the country.
He was to lose the jersey and abandon the race, but followed up the next day with his DN2 Coupe de France.
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And he also took a number of top 10 placings in the Tour de Beauce (UCI 2.2) in Canada in the week before his silver at the Nationals behind Matt Brammeier (Champion System).
All of that success leaves him in with a very strong chance of bagging a stagiaire, or trial, with a pro team for the final months of the season.
Any move in that regard should become clear very soon, and given his form to date it would not be a surprise if he landed a spot with a pro team – perhaps in France at Pro Continental level.
While still only 22 years old, he has a lot of experience and has been a full time bike rider since his late teens, having already spent a year with An Post-Sean Kelly in 2011 and UK-based Node4 Giordana last year – both Continental ranked teams – before moving to France for the current season.
Watch this space.
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