Mia Griffin, Alice Sharpe, Kelly Murphy and Lara Gillespie take a silver medal in the Hong Kong Nations Cup behind New Zealand
before the event and with the top 10 to qualify for Paris, the quartet will move even further ahead of rival teams as a result of the performance.
This was over a second faster than their national record of 4:16.877, set in Jakarta last year, and put them in the final against the Kiwi squad. The New Zealanders were clear favourites to win, having gone two seconds faster than their rivals in round one. They did so, catching the Irish riders just before the end of the 4000 metre event.
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