You can vote right now for your international result of the year by an Irish rider (Photo: Sirotti)
It was a fantastic year for Irish cycling, with some superb racing on home roads and our best riders also flying the flag very impressively around the globe.
It’s not easy picking out the best international result of the year by the Irish but we think you folks know you’re cycling and you’ll rank them properly.
We’ve given you 10 options and while there were some great results abroad by juniors, U23s and Masters riders; we’ve kept the options to elite events only.
And while the Rás is a UCI event, we have always covered it from a domestic rider perspective. So for the purposes of these polls we have decided to classify it as a domestic event, as we have with the national championships.
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Among the nominees is Greg Callaghan; the Irishman retaining his Emerald Enduro title on home soil in May having also won the same round of the Enduro World Series 12 months earlier.
Our paracyclists also did us proud this year, with two golds among the medals at the Rio Paralympics; by Katie George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal in the road TT and Eoghan Clifford in his TT.
Sam Bennett took a number of victories during the season but his stage win in the Critérium International was perhaps the best known event he claimed.
Nicolas Roche went close to winning a stage and wrapping up the overall at the Tour de Yorkshire but had to settle for 2nd on both counts; still a super result after some great riding.
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Anna Turvey secured her place in the World Championships team by taking the elite women’s Irish TT title by a clear margin and went on to claim bronze in the pursuit at the European Track Championships; the result she is nominated for here.
Mark Downey showed his class and race craft by storming to an incredible gold medal in the points race at the UCI World Cup in Holland on the boards.
Another top young rider, Ryan Mullen surprised even himself by taking 5th place in the elite men’s TT at the World Road Championships in October, which is the result of his career to date.
Dan Martin took a range of results that could all be added here. He was on the final podium in both the Criterium du Dauphiné and Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, also taking a stage win in the latter.
But he is nominated for his 9th overall at the Tour de France in July; after perhaps the best Grand Tour ride of his career.
And last but by no means least, Colin Lynch rocketed to a new paracycling world hour record; clocking 43.133km.
There are some great performances here so get clicking! We’ll keep the voting open until Tuesday December 20th at midnight.
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