{"id":737727,"date":"2026-06-15T08:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737727\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:40:08","slug":"european-para-cycling-championship-great-britain-win-three-golds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737727\/","title":{"rendered":"European Para-cycling Championship: Great Britain win three golds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sophie Unwin and pilot Jenny Holl retained their road race title as Great Britain won 18 medals, including three golds, at the 2026 UEC Para-cycling Road European Championships in Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unwin, who is visually impaired, and Holl won road race gold at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, as well as the individual pursuit title on the track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair finished just 0.75 seconds behind Ireland&#8217;s Katie-George Dunlevy and Linda Kelly in Friday&#8217;s time trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But they gained revenge in Sunday&#8217;s road race, edging out Dunlevy and Kelly and the other Irish tandem of Sinead Greenan and Alice Sharpe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unwin and Holl <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c70vppv27zro\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will part company<\/a> for next month&#8217;s Commonwealth Games, with Unwin representing England with new pilot Sylvia Misztal while Holl will be part of Team Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the pair are scheduled to reunite for September&#8217;s Para-cycling Road World Cup in Huntsville, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was also gold for Crystal Lane-Wright, who beat team-mate Morgan Newberry in the women&#8217;s C5 time trial and went on to claim road race bronze, while Amelia Cass triumphed in the C2 event and added silver in the road race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie Unwin and pilot Jenny Holl retained their road race title as Great Britain won 18 medals, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-737727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}