An Post’s Connor McConvey takes victory in Super Duper Cross

An Post-Sean Kelly’s Connor McConvey has taken victory in the A race at the Super Duper Cyclocross in Dundalk at Bellurgan Park.

McConvey took the win in the A race by almost four minutes from Ciaran Byrne in second and Mark McGauley in third after nine laps of a testing and mucky course in very cold conditions yesterday, Saturday.

The racing was held on private lands just over 1km off the M1 north of Dundalk. With the action unfolding across farm land and on lanes usually used by tractors, there was plenty to test the riders even though the event was billed as a bit of festive fun.

In the B race Eamon McConvey (Newry Wheelers) also won in commanding fashion, taking victory by 1:30 from Joe Henry, with Declan McCabe in third a further 30 seconds adrift. Gill Smith took the women’s prize.

Apologies for the earlier version of this story in which we reported Connor McConvey’s father Eamon McConvey (XMTB McConvey Cycles) had won the B race. We simply got him mixed up with Eamon McConvey of Newry Wheelers. Thanks to Dave Gill for pointing that out.

(See full results after the pictures below.)

Results

A Race

Pos	Name	Surname	No	Lap 1	Lap 2	Lap 3	Lap 4	Lap 5	Lap 6	Lap 7	Lap 8	Lap 9	Total
1	Connor	McConvey	5	0:04:59	0:04:59	0:04:51	0:04:56	0:05:00	0:05:07	0:05:02	0:05:02	0:05:00	0:44:56
2	Ciaran	Byrne	6	0:05:09	0:05:05	0:05:15	0:05:22	0:05:27	0:05:27	0:05:28	0:05:35	0:05:33	0:48:21
3	Mark	McGauley	3	0:05:23	0:05:22	0:05:36	0:05:32	0:05:39	0:05:41	0:05:49	0:05:43	0:07:31	0:52:16
4	Johnny	McCabe	1	0:05:30	0:05:49	0:05:45	0:05:48	0:05:51	0:05:59	0:05:53	0:06:05	1lap	0:46:40
5	Gene	Ryan	2	0:05:47	0:05:39	0:05:45	0:05:42	0:05:57	0:05:59	0:06:04	0:05:50	1lap	0:46:43
6	Gary	Sheils	4	0:05:43	0:05:49	0:05:44	0:05:57	0:05:54	0:06:16	0:06:07	0:05:59	1lap	0:47:29
7	Kevin	Lynch	7	0:05:51	0:06:12	0:06:15	0:06:15	0:06:31	0:06:21	0:06:28	0:06:48	1lap	0:50:41
8	Karl	Dolan	11	0:06:16	0:06:12	0:06:28	0:06:28	0:06:27	0:06:33	0:06:39		2lap	0:45:03
9	Mark	Quinn	13	0:08:34	0:07:43	0:09:47	0:10:06	0:10:06					0:46:16

B Race

Pos	Name	Surname	No	Lap 1	Lap 2	Lap 3	Lap 4	Lap 5	Lap 6	Total
1	Eamonn	McConvey	9	0:05:48	0:05:54	0:05:57	0:05:50	0:05:52	0:05:53	0:35:14
2	Henry	Joe	1	0:06:03	0:05:57	0:06:03	0:06:07	0:06:08	0:06:25	0:36:43
3	Declan	McCabe	12	0:06:08	0:06:29	0:06:15	0:06:08	0:06:10	0:06:07	0:37:17
4	Mark	Bartley	4	0:06:25	0:06:05	0:06:11	0:06:15	0:06:11	0:06:12	0:37:19
5	Justin	McGee	13	0:06:00	0:06:05	0:06:27	0:06:47	0:06:17	0:06:09	0:37:45
6	Darragh	Maloney	6	0:06:26	0:06:09	0:06:18	0:06:23	0:06:18	0:06:35	0:38:09
7	Fred	McSorley	8	0:06:34	0:06:18	0:06:09	0:06:16	0:06:50	0:06:56	0:39:03
8	Ronan	Kearney	2	0:06:17	0:06:28	0:07:05	0:06:59	0:06:47	0:06:55	0:40:31
9	Gill	Smith	3	0:07:10	0:06:53	0:06:54	0:06:35	0:06:56	0:06:51	0:41:19
10	Celine	McPhilips	5	0:07:31	0:07:40	0:07:35	0:07:57	0:08:09	1lap	0:38:52
	Martin	Henderson	7	0:06:18	0:06:43	0:07:28	0:06:49			DNF
	David	Casey	10	0:06:20	0:06:05	0:05:56	0:06:02			DNF
	Karl	Dolan	11	0:06:15	DNF	DNF	DNF			DNF