Nathan Keown, the Irish international who led the Junior Tour of Ireland last month, has put in a very strong ride in Wales today.
The North Down CC rider is competing in the Junior Tour of Wales for the Cycling Ulster selection; making the top 10 today when the racing split to pieces.
On
today’s 110km hilly stage from Abergavenny to Rhigos Mountain a five-man
breakaway got clear.
It was
whittled down to four during the day and while they had a gap of one minute
with about 30km remaining, the gaps got a lot bigger before the finish.
Thomas Gloag (VC Londres) won the stage by
11 seconds from Drew Christensen (Cycling New Zealand).
George Mills-Keeling (Cycle Club
Bridgnorth) and Lewis Askey (Backstedt Cycling) were 3rd and 4th in the same
time.
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Behind the breakaway a chase group went
clear and Keown was among them; finishing in 10th place at 3:29, with very
significant gaps behind him through the field.
The next Irish riders home were Finely
Newmark (VC Londres) and Archie Ryan (Vitus-Chill-NRPT); in 18th and 29th.
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They finished in what remained of the
bunch, which was 3:56 down on the winner.
Cathir Doyle (Cycling Ulster) and Will
Ryan (Vitus-Chill-NRPT) were in the next group; finishing in 39th and 41st, at
4:26.
Ciaran Dixon (Cycling Ulster) was 47th, Dylan
Traynor (Vitus-Chill-NRPT) was 62nd and his team mate Aaron Wade was 71st.
Ciaran Cahoon (Cycling Ulster) was 78th,
Liam Crowley (Munster Academy) was 88th, Daniel Yon Hin (Munster Academy) was
95th, Arnaud Dumoulin (Munster Academy) was 96th.
Unfortunately illness has claimed Irish
TT champion Kevin McCambridge and Munster’s Sean Barrett from the race.
Lewis Askey (Backstedt Cycling), who placed 4th today, leads the race.
Best of the Irish overall is Archie Ryan, who was best Irish rider in yesterday’s stage 1 TT; placing 15th, some 53 seconds down on winner Oscar Nilsson-Julien (VC Londres).
You can read today's stage 2 result by following this link and the general classification after today's second stage can be found here. The result of yesterday's stage 1 TT is available here.
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