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Lucy Benezet Minns, above, and Aliyah Rafferty - both competing with Tofauti Everyone Active - have put in very strong performances at Gent-Wevelgem (File photo by Sean Rowe)

Lucy Benezet Minns and Aliyah Rafferty - both competing with Tofauti Everyone Active - have put in very strong performances at Gent-Wevelgem Juniors in Belgium on a day when a huge attrition rate saw most of the field listed as non-finishers.

Benezet Minns, who broke through last year with 4th in the junior women's TT at the World Road Championships in Scotland, made the front group today sprinting for the victory.

That group numbered just 20 riders - from a start list of 115 - after 73km of racing; victory on the day taken by the Irish riders' team mate, British national champion Amelia Cebak.

Benezet Minns placed 19th, on the same time as the winner. Her Irish team mate, Rafferty, was in a group just 23 seconds further back, in 24th place.

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Another Irish junior who is competing at home and abroad this year, Mia Smith of Brother UK-Orientation Marketing, was listed among the non finishers today. There were just 36 finishers, with 75 riders listed as non-finishers.

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