Josephine Healion and Eve McCrystal take bronze in Zürich after string of fourth-place finishes
Linda Kelly and Katie-George Dunlevy added the road race title to their time-trial win at the World Championships in Zürich on Wednesday. Photograph: Harry Murphy/Sportsfileand Linda Kelly have won their second gold medal at cycling’s world road championships in Zürich, Switzerland, soling to a sensational victory in the women’s B road race on Wednesday morning.
Unwin and Holl ultimately finished 1 minute 23 seconds behind with Healion and McCrystal taking a fine bronze, 16 seconds further back.Ifs, putts and maybes: Rory McIlroy’s year as golf’s ‘nearly man’Dunlevy and Kelly won gold in the time-trial on Sunday, having done the same in the Paralympics TT in September.
Healion and McCrystal will savour their bronze medal and the achievement of putting two Irish bikes on the podium. The bronze medals are a fitting reward for a lot of hard work. They were fourth in last year’s world championship road race, fourth in the Paralympic Games road race and again fourth last Sunday in the time trial, but stepped up a level on Wednesday for McCrystal’s swansong event.Ireland’s Katie-George Dunlevy and Linda Kelly win gold in World Championship time-trial
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