Twenty year old reaches the line in Limerick 16 seconds clear of dillon Corkery with Rory Townsend taking third place
Prodigious young Irish cyclist Darren Rafferty powered to an important victory on Sunday, leaving some of Ireland’s top riders in his wake as he soloed to victory in the national road championships.
”It’s pretty incredible. I had my expectations pretty low after Thursday’s disappointing TT,” Rafferty said, speaking of his fourth place in the time trial. “I wanted to redeem myself a bit but didn’t really think I had the legs or the fitness to get a good result. I came in with pretty low expectations and thought we will see how it plays out.”
‘Hopefully you are executed’: Man accused of sending threatening messages to three TDs found not guiltyCorkery suffered cramp with just over 10km remaining and lost contact after that, but chased hard all the way to the line to take silver. Eddie Dunbar had started as a big favourite after winning Thursday’s time trial, but likely did too much early on and ultimately finished eighth.Rafferty’s win keeps the national champion’s jersey within the EF Education-EasyPost ranks.
Fiona Mangan triumphed in Saturday’s elite women’s road race, successfully bridging across to longtime leader Grace Reynolds to also complete the road race/time trial double.
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