Heather Jameson claimed Women’s C2 road race silver for Ireland on the final day of the 2026 UCI Para Cycling Road World Championships in Huntsville, Alabama.<\/p>\n
Jameson completed the four-lap, 55.2 km race in 1:41:54 to earn the first World Championship medal of her career. Switzerland’s Flurina Rigling won gold in 1:41:51, with Jameson leading home a six-rider group that crossed the line three seconds later.<\/p>\n
Jameson said: \u201cI’m absolutely over the moon. I really, really and truly am. I’m so happy with the performance. I came here feeling really good. We put in a lot of work, especially since the European Championships in June, and I gave it everything I had out there. The race was fantastic and really suited me. It was a little bit on and off, but I knew I had enough left at the end, so when it came to the line, I gave it everything I had.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The silver capped an excellent World Championship debut for Jameson, who finished fifth in Friday’s individual time trial before stepping onto the podium in Monday’s road race.<\/p>\n
Richael Timothy finished sixth in the Women’s C3 road race. <\/p>\n
Timothy crossed the line in 1:32:19 in the Women’s C3 road race, five seconds behind China’s Xiaomei Wang, who won the world title in 1:32:14. Timothy placed sixth after four laps and 55.2 km, improving on her ninth-place finish in Friday’s individual time trial.<\/p>\n
Both races were contested in hot and humid morning conditions, with temperatures approaching 30 degrees Celsius and humidity around 70 per cent in Huntsville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heather Jameson claimed Women’s C2 road race silver for Ireland on the final day of the 2026 UCI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4741,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-617587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cycling","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617587","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=617587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}