21 riders named on Irish team for European Road Champs in Italy

Caoimhe O'Brien (centre) winning the John Beggs last month, with younger sister Aoife (far left) taking 3rd - both now set to ride the Euros (Photo: Bryan Keane-Inpho)

A 21-rider Irish team has been named for the European Road Championships in Italy next week. The championships involve road races and TTs for men and women across the junior, U23 and elite categories.

The Irish team has emerged in the official start list for the events published by the European Cycling Union. The championships start next Wednesday with the mixed relay and junior men's and woman's TTs. They continue until tomorrow week, when the men's road race will bring the curtain down in Trento.

While the team is a large one, the elite teams are modest; two women selected and three men. Megan Armitage (Team Rupelcleaning) and Ellen McDermott (Team Boompods) make up the women's team while Ryan Mullen (Trek-Segafredo), Conn McDunphy (EvoPro Racing) and Matt Teggart (Velo Club Villefranche Beaujolais) are the men's elite team.

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Carlow's Conal Scully has impressed recently in France and he gets the nod for the Irish junior team at the Euros in Trento, Italy

The U23 women’s team is comprised of three riders - Darcey Harkness (VC Glendale), Lucy O’Donnell (Velo Performance) and Caoimhe O’Brien (Torelli-Assure-Cayman Islands-Scimitar) – while there are six U23s selected for the men’s events.

Those men are: Dillon Corkery (EvoPro Racing), Matthew
Devins (Trinity Racing), Kevin McCambridge (AVC Aix en Provence), Devin Shortt
(Previley-Coforma), Aaron Wade (Powerhouse Sport) and Adam Ward (Antiga Casa
Bellsolà Club Ciclista).

Aoife O’Brien (Torelli-Assure-Cayman Islands-Scimitar) is the sole female junior selected after impressing against the elite riders at home on the road this year.

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That junior men’s team is: Ruairi Byrne (Orwell
Wheelers), Dean Harvey (VG Glendale), Adam Gilsenan (CC Canturino Team), Ronan
O’Connor (Orwell Wheelers), Darren Rafferty (Team 31 Jolly Cycles U19) and
Conal Scully (Carlow RCC).

Euro Champs 2021: Irish team

Elite Women

  • Megan Armitage (Team Rupelcleaning), Ellen McDermott (Team Boompods)

Elite Men

  • Ryan Mullen (Trek-Segafredo), Conn McDunphy (EvoPro Racing), Matt Teggart (Velo Club Villefranche Beaujolais)

U23 Women

  • Darcey Harkness (VG Glendale), Caoimhe O’Brien (Torelli-Assure-Cayman Islands-Scimitar), Lucy O’Donnell (Velo Performance)

U23 Men

  • Dillon Corkery (EvoPro Racing), Matthew Devins (Trinity Racing), Kevin McCambridge (AVC Aix en Provence), Devin Shortt (Previley-Coforma), Aaron Wade (Powerhouse Sport), Adam Ward (Antiga Casa Bellsolà Club Ciclista)

Junior Women

  • Aoife O’Brien (Torelli-Assure-Cayman Islands-Scimitar)

Junior Men

  • Ruairi Byrne (Orwell Wheelers), Dean Harvey (VG Glendale), Adam Gilsenan (CC Canturino Team), Ronan O’Connor (Orwell Wheelers), Darren Rafferty (Team 31 Jolly Cycles U19), Conal Scully (Carlow RCC)
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