Northern Ireland cyclist Marcus Christie has taken 7th place in the men’s TT at the Commonwealth Games in Australia. Christie's compatriot Xeno Young was 25th in the same race earlier today. The riders faced a 38.5km course at Currumbin.
The title was won by Cameron Meyer of Australia, who said afterwards he had not ridden against the clock on the road for 2½ years.
"I broke my collarbone in the last one I did," he said of crashing in the Vuelta TT in 2015. "I couldn't be more thrilled than I am today and I have to thank all the staff."
He only decided two weeks ago he would ride the TT. And in that time he had to “scramble together” a bike so he could “have a crack” at today’s test.
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Meyer was 30 seconds clear of Harry Tanfield (23) of England, whose 21-year-old brother Charlie had won individual pursuit silver on the track and team pursuit gold. Harry Tanfield was 30 seconds behind Meyer’s winning time of 48:13 today.
Taking the bronze medal was Hamish Bond of New Zealand. The 32-year-old is a double Olympic gold medallist in rowing and only switched to cycling after Rio 2016.
Callum Scotson of Australia was 4th at 1:22 followed by James McLaughlin of Guernsey at 1:41 and then Marcus Christie at 2:29. The Irish rider, who specialises in TTs, finished in the same time as Charlie Tanfield.
Xeno Young of Northern Ireland was further down the field, some 5:54 off the winning time. We’ll have more to follow including a standalone report on Eileen Burns in the women’s TT.
Commonwealth Games Men's TT
Currumbin, Gold Coast 38.5km
1 Cameron Meyer (Australia) 0:48:13
2 Harry Tanfield (England) 0:00:30
3 Hamish Bond (New Zealand) 0:00:32
4 Callum Scotson (Australia) 0:01:22
5 James Oram (New Zealand) 0:01:27
6 James McLaughlin (Guernsey) 0:01:41
7 Marcus Christie (Northern Ireland) 0:02:29
8 Charlie Tanfield (England)
9 Ian Bibby (England) 0:02:30
10 Brendon Davids (South Africa) 0:03:31
11 John Archibald (Scotland) 0:03:48
12 Sebastian Tremlett (Guernsey) 0:03:57
13 Joseph Areruya (Rwanda) 0:04:11
14 Jay Lamoureux (Canada) 0:04:33
15 Peter Kibble (Wales) 0:04:42
16 Mark Stewart (Scotland)
17 Jack English (Guernsey) 0:04:54
18 Derek Gee (Canada) 0:04:58
19 Dirk Coetzee (Namibia) 0:05:03
20 Andreas Miltiadis (Cyprus)
21 Jake Kelly (Isle of Man) 0:05:10
22 Samuel Brand (Isle of Man) 0:05:32
23 Jack Rebours (Jersey)
24 Valens Ndayisenga (Rwanda) 0:05:53
25 Xeno Young (Northern Ireland) 0:05:54
26 Daniel Halksworth (Jersey) 0:05:59
27 Kyle Gordon (Scotland) 0:06:20
28 David Kinja (Kenya) 0:06:22
29 Christopher Rougier-Lagane (Mauritius) 0:06:52
30 Alexandre Mayer (Mauritius) 0:06:55
31 Derek Barbara (Gibraltar) 0:07:03
32 Charles Kagimu (Uganda) 0:07:25
33 Nathan Draper (Isle of Man) 0:07:54
34 Hasani Hennis (Anguilla) 0:07:58
35 Anthony Boakye Dankwah (Ghana) 0:08:23
36 Abdul Abdul Mumin (Ghana) 0:08:27
37 Martin Freyer (Namibia) 0:09:59
38 Gregory Rougier-Lagane (Mauritius) 0:10:00
39 Avishka Mawathage (Sri Lanka) 0:10:35
40 Giovanni Lovell (Belize) 0:10:47
41 Oscar Quiroz (Belize) 0:10:49
42 Jyme Bridges (Antigua and Barbuda) 0:10:55
43 Adam Jamieson (Canada) 0:11:27
44 Christopher Gerry (Seychelles) 0:11:42
45 Chamika Kumara (Sri Lanka) 0:12:35
46 Jeffery Kelsick (Antigua and Barbuda) 0:12:57
47 Julian Bellido (Gibraltar) 0:13:33
48 Edgar Arana (Belize) 0:13:43
49 Bram Sanderson (Dominica) 0:14:34
50 Sherwin Osborne (Anguilla) 0:16:00
51 Ali Kamara (Sierra Leone) 0:21:01
52 Anthony Colebrook (Bahamas) 0:22:46
53 Jeff Esparon (Seychelles) 0:23:02
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