Richael Timothy of Team Ireland was clearly delighted with her European Championships gold medal win in Italy (Photo: ParaCiclismoManiago)
Richael Timothy has added road race gold the Irish paracycling national team's seven-medal haul from the UEC Paracycling European Road Championships in Maniago and Montereale Valcellina, Italy.
Paralympian Timothy, who won two bronze medals on the track at the Worlds in 2023, proved best in the four-up sprint for the medals in the women's C3 road race on Sunday in Italy.
On the slightly uphill sprint, over cobbles, Timothy saw off Dutch rider Aniek van den Aarssen and France's Tifany Huot Marchand in the final gallop.
It was Timothy’s second medal of the championships having picked bronze in the women’s C3 Time Trial (TT).
However, while she has a growing collection of bronzes, her European's gold medal win was the first major championship victory of her career, making it a huge day for her.
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Team Ireland's most successful paracycling pairing Katie-George Dunlevy piloted by Linda Kelly - multiple world and Paralympic champions - added another gold to their collection in Italy.
They won the WB TT on Friday in the same race that new Irish tandem pairing and Europeans debutants, Sinead Greenan and pilot Alice Sharpe, placed 4th.
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And in the WB road race, Greenan and Sharpe laid down a marker - suggesting they could be the next prolific tandem pairing for Team Ireland - when they won silver. Dunlevy and Kelly were 4th in the same race.
Heather Jameson, added two medals to Ireland's haul at these Europeans when she won bronze in both the women's C4 road race and TT.
Paralympian Damien Vereker and pilot Mitchell McLaughlin were 8th in the MB TT and 9th in the road race.
Another of the new tandem pairings at these championships for Ireland, Ciaran O’Toole and pilot Con Scully, were 15th in the MB TT and 11th in the road race.
Allister MacSorley was 5th and 11th in the men’s H4 road race and TT while Steven MacSorley was 15th and 14th in the men’s H3 TT and road race.
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