The ARA Australian Cycling Team has wrapped up another successful campaign at the UCI Para Cycling Road World Championships in Huntsville, Alabama, bringing home two rainbow jerseys and eight medals.<\/p>\n
Racing in scorching conditions, the Australian team battled the heat to deliver a string of impressive performances across the time trial, road race and handcycle mixed team relay.<\/p>\n
Both Lauren Parker (H3) and Tahlia Clayton-Goodie (C1) successfully defended their time trial world titles, securing the rainbow jersey for another 12 months.<\/p>\n
Clayton-Goodie backed up her time trial gold with silver in the road race.<\/p>\n
Parker claimed bronze, bringing her total medal haul to three after also taking bronze in the handcycle mixed team relay alongside Grant Allen and Alex Welsh.<\/p>\n
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Alex Welsh, Grant Allen and Lauren Parker after winning bronze in the handcycle mixed team relay. Image: SWPix<\/p>\n
In the battle for the C3 time trial title, Emily Petricola finished just four seconds off the top spot to take bronze.<\/p>\n
Defending world champions Alana Forster (C5) and Tara Neyland (C4) both added silver medals to the team’s tally in their respective time trials.<\/p>\n
Neyland followed up with another silver in the road race, narrowly missing out on gold in a thrilling photo finish.<\/p>\n
Forster also added a second road race medal, sprinting to bronze in another tight finish.<\/p>\n
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Tara Neyland won silver in the C4 road race in a photo finish. Image: SWPix<\/p>\n
Results | Time trial<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udf08 Lauren Parker (H3)<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udf08 Tahlia Clayton-Goodie (C1)<\/p>\n
\ud83e\udd48Alana Forster (C5)<\/p>\n
\ud83e\udd48Tara Neyland (C4)<\/p>\n
\ud83e\udd49Emily Petricola (C3)<\/p>\n
5. Meg Lemon (C4)<\/p>\n
8. Alistair Donohoe (C5)<\/p>\n
8. Emma Mickle (C3)<\/p>\n
9. Darren Hicks (C2)<\/p>\n
9. Alex Welsh (H3)<\/p>\n
10. Grant Allen (H4)<\/p>\n
Results | Road race<\/p>\n
\ud83e\udd48Tara Neyland (C4)<\/p>\n
\ud83e\udd48Tahlia Clayton-Goodie (C1)<\/p>\n
\ud83e\udd49 Lauren Parker (H3)<\/p>\n
\ud83e\udd49Alana Forster (C5)<\/p>\n
4. Alistair Donohoe (C5)<\/p>\n
5. Darren Hicks (C2)<\/p>\n
7. Meg Lemon (C4)<\/p>\n
7. Em Petricola (C3)<\/p>\n
9. Emma Mickle (C3)<\/p>\n
10. Grant Allen (H4)<\/p>\n
13. Alex Welsh (H3)<\/p>\n
Results | Handcycle Mixed Team Relay<\/p>\n
\ud83e\udd49Australia – Grant Allen, Lauren Parker and Alex Welsh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ARA Australian Cycling Team has wrapped up another successful campaign at the UCI Para Cycling Road World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-885272","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\/885272","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=885272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}