Eoin Mullen wins sprint with stadium record in Switzerland; Martyn Irvine & Caroline Ryan also make podium

Looking slick and back on top; Martyn Irvine has enjoyed his first strong international outing on the track - in Aigle, Switzerland - since his devastating crash at the Tour of Taiwan back in March.

The top Irish track trio of Martyn Irvine, Caroline Ryan and Eoin Mullen have enjoyed great form in the Three Days of Aigle international track meeting in Switzerland, with all taking a trip to the podium and young Mullen winning his sprint event.

The emerging rider from the Aran Islands clocked a new personal best time and stadium record in the sprint of 10.16, before going on to win the event with a 2-0 victory against Flavio Cipriano of Brazil this evening, Saturday.

Cipriano had won the keirin event on Friday in which Mullen was 7th.

On the opening day of the meeting on Thursday, scratch race World Champion Irvine took 4th in that event, with victory going to top Italian road sprinted Elia Viviani, who riders for the Cannondale trade team.

It was a good ride by Irvine, who is only now getting back into top flight track competition after his broken hip on the Tour of Taiwan in March.

Irvine was also in omnium action at the meeting and when that race concluded yesterday, Friday, he had finished in 3rd place overall, a welcome boost ahead of the European Track Championships in Holland starting in just under two weeks time.

Caroline Ryan got her Aigle meeting underway on Thursday with 10th in the scratch race. Then yesterday, Friday, she rode the pursuit and the points race, taking 2nd and 12th respectively.

Ryan, along with Irvine, was competing for the national team this weekend while Mullen was riding for the UCI-run World Cycling Centre on whose home track the meeting took place.

We did not have full results for Mullen's sprint event at the time of writing, but the results for the Irish riders on Thursday and Friday are included below. We'll bring you full timing details of Mullen's win just as soon as we get them.

Thursday, October 3rd: Men's Scratch Race

Friday, October 4th: Men's Keirin

Friday, October 4th: Men's Omnium Final Overall

Friday, October 4th: Women's Points Race

Rank	Name	Nat.	Result
1	Elena CECCHINI	ITA	79
2	Maria giulia CONFALONIERI	ITA	73
3	Jolien D'HOORE	BEL	64
4	Barbara GUARISCHI	ITA	50
5	Annalisa CUCINOTTA	ITA	46
6	Simona FRAPPORTI	ITA	46
7	Doris SCHWEIZER	SUI	43
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9	Beatrice BARTELLONI	ITA	28
10	Evelyn ARYS	BEL	25
11	Chiara VANNUCCI	ITA	7
12	Caroline RYAN	IRL	4
13	Lotta LEPISTÖ	FIN	2
14	Rita IMSTEPF	SUI	-40
99 DNF	Valentine GROB	SUI
99 DNF	Alexa PÉREZ	MEX

Friday, October 4th: Women's 3km Individual Pursuit

Thursday, October 3rd: Women's Scratch Race