{"id":4073,"date":"2021-09-02T12:53:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.ucd.ie\/magazine\/?post_type=sport&#038;p=4073"},"modified":"2021-09-03T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T16:26:45","slug":"cycling-2021","status":"publish","type":"sport","link":"https:\/\/alumni.ucd.ie\/magazine\/sport\/cycling-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UCD Ad Astra Elite Sports Scholar  Lara Gillespie won the 2020 Senior  Women\u2019s National Championships.  Gillespie, named Cycling Ireland Female  Cyclist of the Year, nominated for the  2019 RT\u00c9 Young Athlete of the Year  award and the 2019 <i>Irish Independent<\/i>  Young Athlete of the Year award, was  crowned Irish champion after a sprint  finish at Knockaderry, Co Limerick on  the last day of the National Road  Cycling Championships. <\/p>\n<p>Ireland\u2019s Team Pursuit squad claimed  gold at the Track Cycling Nations  Cup in St Petersburg, with UCD\u2019s Lara  Gillespie and teammates Mia Griffin,  Kelly Murphy and Alice Sharpe. The  Irish proved too strong for the Russian  squad in the final, clocking a time of  4.21.411, a fraction of a second off the  national record. <\/p>\n<p>Lara Gillespie then went on to claim  bronze in the four-event Omnium,  placing fifth in the scratch race, second  in the tempo, eighth in the elimination  and fourth in the points race. At the  recent Track Cycling Nations Cup  in St. Petersburg, Lara Gillespie with  teammates Mia Griffin, Kelly Murphy  and Alice Sharpe claimed gold in the  Team Pursuit. Gillespie added to Ireland\u2019s  medal haul claiming bronze in the four- event Omnium finishing with 110 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCD Ad Astra Elite Sports Scholar Lara Gillespie won the 2020 Senior Women\u2019s National Championships. 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