{"id":465634,"date":"2026-05-25T03:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465634\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T03:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:28:10","slug":"irelands-heverin-confirms-potential-at-junior-tour-of-flanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465634\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Heverin confirms potential at junior Tour of Flanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-206680\" width=\"auto\" height=\"855\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1320\/1026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ireland-039-s-heverin-confirms-potential-at-junior-tour-of-flanders.jpg\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Emer Heverin has followed up her very strong ride at Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge and winning the National Criterium Championships with a strong finish in junior Tour of Flanders (Photo: Nancy Goossens)<\/p>\n<p>Emer Heverin (CAMS Majaco) has had a very successful few weeks, with 5th at junior Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge and gold at the elite National Criterium Championships. The 16-year-old has now followed up with a very strong performance at junior Tour of Flanders.<\/p>\n<p>On a day when the temperatures were as big a factor as the terrain, Belfast&#8217;s Heverin stayed the course as the favourites&#8217; group split to pieces in the 73.8km UCI-ranked Belgian classic.<\/p>\n<p>With six short and sharp climbs, and eight cobbled sectors, the event threw the challenges that most of the young riders, including Heverin, would not have encountered before.<\/p>\n<p>A three-rider group went to the finish, with Lise Revol (France) winning in a close sprint from Edda Bieberle (Airtox-Carl Ras Junior Women), with a second rider off the French national team, Tha\u00efs Poirier, placing 3rd at three seconds.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stickybottle.com\/people\/conn-mcdunphy-on-ras-victory-they-threw-everything-at-uswe-didnt-falter-207149\" aria-label=\"Conn McDunphy on R\u00e1s victory | &#039;They threw everything at us\u2026we didn\u2019t falter&#039;\" class=\"block flex-shrink-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/conn-mcdunphy-on-r-aacute-s-victory-039-they-threw-everything-at-us-hellip-we-didn-rsquo-t-falte.jpg\" class=\"max-w-full w-full w-full h-auto !my-0\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" alt=\"Conn McDunphy on R\u00e1s victory | 'They threw everything at us\u2026we didn\u2019t falter'\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stickybottle.com\/races-results\/conn-mcdunphy-crowned-ras-champ-as-team-mate-flanagan-wins-again-207133\" aria-label=\"McDunphy crowned R\u00e1s champ as team mate Flanagan wins again\" class=\"block flex-shrink-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mcdunphy-crowned-r-aacute-s-champ-as-team-mate-flanagan-wins-again.jpg\" class=\"max-w-full w-full w-full h-auto !my-0\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" alt=\"McDunphy crowned R\u00e1s champ as team mate Flanagan wins again\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heverin finish as part of a 27-rider chasing group sprinting for 6th place on the day. Heverin&#8217;s team mate, Melanie Rowe, won that gallop.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish teenager was 17th on the day, having finished just 48 seconds behind the winner in such a major race, having chalked up another very strong performance.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Relive the final km of the Women U19 race in Oudenaarde \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RVV26?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#RVV26<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bim1bOBWdF\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bim1bOBWdF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ronde van Vlaanderen (@RondeVlaanderen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RondeVlaanderen\/status\/2058547282128101422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emer Heverin has followed up her very strong ride at Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge and winning the National Criterium Championships with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-465634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}