2011 National Championships – Write up

The 2011 National Cyclocross Championships kicked off to a beautiful backdrop of frozen lakes and the hard pack frozen ground of Lurgan Park. The idilic scenery was soon forgotten as the sun came out and made for a mixture of hard pack mud through to very muddy sections, which required the riders to keep their wits about them at all times. The course was 3km of very fast racing with sections of grass, track and woodland singletrack, which took between 7-8 minutes per lap. The course had some nice design features with the introduction for the first time in Ireland of a sand feature and a double pit, which required different tactics to the other races.

The seniors kicked off at 1pm with Robin Seymour (Team-WORC/Stevens) taking first postion on the grid, which was the position he was to remain in for the rest of the race, taking the National Champions jersey home with a significant lead for the 17th time. Second and third were a different matter with Evan Ryan (Team-WORC) and Connor Cambell (Newry Wheelers CC/Revolution Cycles) swapping positions for most of the race, Connor jumped the last set of boards and made a gap on Evan but with a sprint finish to the end Evan Ryan managed to bag second place with Connor Cambell left in third. Gerry McCabe (Cuchulainn CC) took a convincing win in the vets with Ciara McManus making the same in the ladies.

The Junior event started 1 minute after the main field and was lead out by Matt Adair (Un-Attached Ulster) who dominated the Junior race, taking home a very convincing win and the national champions jersey. He even passed the whole main field apart from Robin Seymour, having a mechanical 100m from the finish line and having to take his victory by running over the line. In second was Robert Scanlon (Team WORC) taking a very solid second place and some one to watch for the future, in the Junior ladies Claire Oakley put in a good race to take the medal.

A big thank you to Banbridge CC, Apollo CT, Dromara CC  and all the sponsors for putting on such a good event. A special mention should goto Stephen Prentice and Martin Grimley and all there helpers, for all there hard work which makes events like this possible.

Results

Senior:

  1. Robin Seymour
  2. Evan Ryan
  3. Connor Campbell

Vets:

  1. Gerry McCabe
  2. Aiden McDonald
  3. Peter McConville

Junior:

  1. Matthew Adair
  2. Robert Scanlon
  3. Jack Wilson

Ladies

  1. Ciara MacManus
  2. Gill Smith
  3. Lisa Millar

Junior Ladies

  1. Claire Oakley

Team

  1. Team-WORC – Robin Seymour, Evan Ryan, Greg May

Full results can be found: here

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