Max Fitzgerald had to wait until last summer before taking his first big result in an Irish jersey, but this year the 17-year-old has hit the ground running much sooner.
Competing for the Irish national team - including a welcome return for a men's team pursuit line-up - Fitzgerald shattered an individual Irish junior record that has stood sine 2011.
Fitzgerald recorded a time of 1:04.960 in the 1km event at the Future Stars event in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands; a time that shaved almost six tenths of a second off the previous Irish junior record, set by Eoin Mullen back in 2011.
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Mullen recorded a time of 1:05.549 at the junior European Championships in Andia, Portugal, in 2011. His time beat the then national record of Olympian Felix English, who clocked 1:07.900, also in Apeldoorn, in 2010.
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Fitzgerald's ride in the Netherlands was only the third time in the last 15 years that a new Irish junior marker, indoors, for 1km has been set. The teenager won a stage in the Junior Tour of Ireland last year and looks set for a second successively year in both road and track in 2025.
Aliyah Rafferty (Tofauti Everyone Active Majoco), Rhiannon Dolan (TC Racing Team), Luca Holmes (Spellman Dublin Port), George Sevastopulo (Sundrive Track Team) and Elliott McKeegan (Madigan CC) were also competing for Ireland in Holland last weekend.
At the time of writing we did not have results available for the other Irish riders but we will update when we have secured those results.
