{"id":62146,"date":"2025-10-05T11:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T11:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/62146\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T11:40:06","slug":"waterfords-david-gaffney-wins-irelands-first-road-race-medal-at-european-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/62146\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterford\u2019s David Gaffney wins Ireland\u2019s first road race medal at European Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"120\" data-end=\"263\">Waterford teenager David Gaffney has made history, becoming the first Irish rider ever to medal in a road race at the European Championships \u00a0in France on Friday, 3rd October 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"265\" data-end=\"419\">The junior men\u2019s race in France covered 103.4km, with Gaffney taking bronze behind Germany\u2019s Karl Herzog, who won the race, and Italy\u2019s Robert Capello in second place.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"421\" data-end=\"587\">Herzog crossed the line 13 seconds ahead of Capello, while Gaffney finished 43 seconds behind the winner, but crucially 13 seconds clear of a chasing group of seven.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"589\" data-end=\"756\">Gaffney had been part of a decisive 12-man move with just over 30km to go and rode strongly all the way to the line, claiming the biggest result of his young career.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"758\" data-end=\"989\">After his silver medal in the junior time trial earlier this week, Conor Murphy finished 48th in the road race at 6:59, Matthew Walls was 68th at 10:44, and Toby Sweetman, Hugh \u00d3g Mulhearne, and Rory Condon were unable to finish.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"758\" data-end=\"989\">Keep up to date with all the latest sports news on our website,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beat102103.com\/sport\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beat102103.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waterford teenager David Gaffney has made history, becoming the first Irish rider ever to medal in a road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,6513],"class_list":["post-62146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62146","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=62146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}