The Irish national team - comprised of junior, U23 and elite riders - was in action at the Grenchen Track Cycling Challenge in Switzerland with juniors Luca Holmes and Max Fitzgerald coming away with the best results of the group.
Esther Wong, who first represented at the UCI Cyclocross World Cup in Dublin earlier this month, was making her track debut for Ireland, having ridden for Great Britain as a junior but now having switched allegiance to Ireland.
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Similarly, Matti Dobbins, the former Scotland road race champion, was racing in the green of Ireland for the first time, some two years after declaring for Ireland.
The full results for the Irish in action on Friday and Saturday are as follows:
- Junior Men's Scratch race | 4th Max Fitzgerald, 9th Luca Holmes, 11th Philip O'Connor
- Men's Elimination Race | 6th Matti Dobbins, 13th Stefan Caulfield Dreier
- Men's Point Race | 11th Stefan Caulfield Dreier, DNS Matti Dobbins
- Women's Omnium | Scratch race Esther Wong 13th, Aoife O'Brien 17th; Tempo race O'Brien 16th, Wong 18th; Elimination race O'Brien 8th, Wing 10th; Points race-final overall Wong 14th on 48 points, O'Brien 16th on 44 points.
- Junior Men's Points Race | Lucan Holmes 7th, Max Fitzgerald 10th, Philip O'Connor 13th
- Men's Scratch Race | Matti Dobbins 11th, Stefan Caulfield Dreier 21st.
- Junior Men's Elimination Race | Max Fitzgerald 11th, Philip O'Connor 14th, Luca Holmes 17th
- Junior Men's Omnium | Scratch race Luca Holmes 3rd, Max Fitzgerald 16th, Philip O'Connor 18th; Tempo, O'Connor 6th, Fitzgerald 10th, Holmes 17th; Elimination, Holmes 14th, O'Connor 17th, Fitzgerald 20th; Points race-final overall, Holmes 11th on 63 points, Fitzgerald 17th. O'Connor DNF
- Women's Elimination Race | Aoife O'Brien 7th, Esther Wong 23rd.7
- Women's Scratch Race | Aoife O'Brien 10th, Esther Wong 19th
- Men's Omnium | Scratch race Dobbins 5th, Stefan Caulfield Dreier 15th; Tempo Dobbins 14th, Caulfield Dreier 19th; Elimination race Dobbins 15th, Caulfield Dreier 16th; Points race-final result, Dobbins 15th on 61 points, Caulfield Dreier 18th on 29 points.
- Men's omnium | Caulfield-Dreier and Dobbins finished 12th.
