It may still be the Christmas-New Year holiday period, when traditionally the winter training is increased for road riders, but some of our top junior cyclists have made the journey to Europe for cyclocross action this week.
Ryan Daly, Conor Murphy and Greta Lawless all pinned on numbers today at the UCI Cyclocross World Cup in Besançon, France, and put in strong performances against the best juniors in the world.
Lawless has already taken the best ever result by an Irish rider at a World Cup in recent weeks, placing 10th at the Dublin round on December 1st. Today she was 17th on a day when the French riders went 1-2-3.
The race was won by Lise Revol (16) by 23 seconds from Jeanne Duterne, with the third French rider, Lison Desprez, at 45 seconds. Lawless 3:40 down after 45 minutes of racing, placing 17th from 46 starters.
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In the junior men's race, Murphy, who was 11th at Superprestige Mol last week, placed 16th and Daly was 56th in the 75-rider field.
The race was won by France's Soren Bruyere Joumard, who also claimed victory at the Dublin World Cup four weeks ago. Today he crossed the line solo, though just 10 seconds up on Belgium's Arthur Van den Boer, with Britain's Oscar Amey in 3rd.
Murphy was 1:28 down on the winner in 17th while Daly was at 5:17.
More to come.
