After the highs of Darren Rafferty and Lucy Benezet Minns finishing 5th and 4th - in the U23 men's TT and junior women's TT - at the UCI World Road Championships in Scotland, Adam Rafferty and Liam O'Brien have also put in sensational performances today.
Representing Ireland in the junior men's TT - some 22.7km with the brutal cobbled climb to Stirling Castle to finish - Adam Rafferty, a proven tester in an international context, has raced to 8th place in a 72-rider field at these Worlds this morning.
And his team mate Liam O'Brien - who also now has a growing collection of very impressive results in UCI-ranked international events - placed 11th. Those were two fantastic performances at what is now an ultra competitive category given how many juniors go straight into professional contracts.
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The gold medal and rainbow bands with to Australia's Oscar Chamberlin - 10th in the junior road race already at these Worlds - in a time of 28:29. He was 24 seconds up on Ben Wiggins of Great Britain, son of 2012 Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins.
Louis Leidert of Germany took the bronze medal, some 34 seconds down on the winner. Rafferty was 8th at 58 seconds with O'Brien 11th, and just pushed out of the top 10 by a couple of late finishers, at 1:17.
More to come.
