National championships success for cyclists
LAST weekend saw over 20 members of O’Leary Stone Kanturk Cycling Club travel to Carlow to compete in the Youth National Cycling Championships.
This is the highlight of the year and all the training for the year culminates in this weekend.
Each cyclist competes in three different events – time trial, road race and criterium. The time trial was raced over an 8km course for all age groups. The road race was then on the outskirts of Carlow.
The U11 and U12 raced on a 9km course, while the U13 and U14 raced 30km and U15 and U16 raced 60km.
The final event was a criterium, which is raced on a closed technical circuit. Great credit has to be given to all of the riders who completed each of the races.
The club had representing teams in each age category namely:
U11, Stephen Sheehan, Michael Nolan, Max Fitzgerald. U12, Ewen McConville, Quillan Donnelly, Sean Tarrant. U13, David Shine, Luke Moynihan, Patrick Morley. U14, Ronan Leahy, Ruairi Murphy. U15, Tom Moriarty, Sean Barrett, Luke Thompson, Daniel Yonhin, Arnaud Dimoulin. U16, Denis Murphy, Tom O’Connor, Will Ryan, Archie Ryan. U15 Girls, Lucy O’Donnell.
It was a very successful event for the club, bringing home 46 medals and two overall cups. Results as follows:
Time Trial: U12: 3rd Quillan Donnelly and U12 team prize, U13: 2nd David Shine and U13 team prize, U15: 1st Tom Moriarty, U16 1st Will Ryan and team prize, U15 girls 2nd Lucy O’Donnell
Road Race: U12: 1st Quillan Donnelly, 2nd Ewen McConville and team prize, U13: 1st David Shine and team prize, U15: 1st Tom Moriarty and team prize, U16: 3rd Denis Murphy and team prize, U15 Girls: 3rd Lucy O’Donnell.
Criterium: U12: 2nd Ewen McConville and team prize, U13: 3rd David Shine and team prize U15: 1st Tom Moriarty, U16: 1st Will Ryan, 3rd Archie Ryan and team prize, U15 girls: 2nd Lucy O’Donnell.
All this success would not be possible without leadership and coaching from Dan Curtin. He has led a huge number of youth cyclists to success over the years.
Well done to you all, you are a great bunch of young people and you have done yourselves, your coach, your club and your families proud.