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Walsh and Meehan fastest at Paracycling National Time Trial Championships
By Denis Toomey
8 Oct 2012,
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| Photo shows Darragh McDonald Paralympic Gold Medal Winner in Swimmimg at the London Paralympic Games presenting Catherine Walsh and Fran Meehan with their National Championship Jersey and medals after the won the Paracycling Tandem National Championships in Arklow. |
Double Paralympic medallists Catherine Walsh and Fran Meehan added another crown to their 2012 successes when setting a time of 27mim 32.89 seconds to win the 2012 National Paracycling Time Trial Championships Tandem Title in Arklow yesterday.
This was the fastest time of the day over the 19.2km TT circuit hosted by the South East Road Club and incorporated the 5th and last leg of the 2012 Invacare Paracycling Time Trial League. Their win was also good enough for the girls to claim the “Yellow Jersey” as 2012 Invacare Ireland Paracycling Time Trial League overall winners in the Women’s B category. The Men’s B category was won by John Goldrick and Denis Toomey.
In the H1-H4 Handcycling category Athlone H2 Handcyclist Declan Slevin followed his club-mate Mark Rohan’s winning ways in claiming the National Handcycling Championship Title finishing in a time of 41mins 46.72seconds. Second place was taken by Darrell Erwin which secured him the Handcycling Invacare H1-H2 League Yellow Jersey. The H3-H4 Yellow Jersey was won by Paul Tobin.
The solo bike C1-C5 National TT Title went to Banbridge CC stalwart Chris Burns in a factored time of 30mins 58.79 seconds. Chris also took the C1-C3 League Yellow Jersey and Ballahadreen CC Cyclist Jerry Towey took the C4-C5 Yellow Jersey.
Paracycling Commission Chairman Denis Toomey paid tribute to local man and Paracycling Development Coach Frank O’Leary for the great work he put in to the success of the league. He thanked the South East Road Club for hosting a terrific event and for providing all the refreshments afterwards. He paid special thanked to Invacare Ireland for their support in sponsoring the league and with providing great deals for those looking for handcycles. Sharon Mclean was on hand to present the jerseys. The National Paracycling Championship Medals were presented by Irish Paralympic Gold Medal Swimmer Darragh McDonald.
Paralympics Ireland will hold a “Talent of the Future Search Day” at UCD Sports Complex next Saturday where any budding Paralympian of the future can come along and try their hand at all the Paralympic sports including Paracycling from 10am until 4pm.
National Paracycling Time Trial Championships Arklow 6th October 2012
Tandems Male & Female - Actual Time / Factored Time
1st Catherine Walsh & Fran Meehan 27'32.89" 1457.57secs
2nd Andrew Fitzgerald & Con Collis 27'34.73 1654.73secs
3rd John Goldrick & Denis Toomey 28'39.35" 1719.35secs
4th Martin Gordon & Michael O'Mahoney 29'30.86" 1770.86secs
Solo Bikes C1-C5 Male & Female
1st Chris Burns 30'58.79" 1646.40secs
2nd Jerry Towey 30'11.30" 1713.62secs
3rd Dominic Walls 32'32.10" 1812.53secs
4th Billy Walsh 33'38.88" 1919.01secs
5th Patrick Commisky 47'25.64" 2642.19secs
Handcycles H1-H4 Male & Female
1st Declan Slevin 41'46.72" 2028.09secs
2nd Darrell Erwin 44'59.54" 2184.89secs
3rd Paul Tobin 50'27.25" 2477.29secs
4th Michael Murphy 59'21.11" 2881.15secs
5th Bartley Walsh Short Course
6th Peter Gill Short Course
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