{"id":658400,"date":"2026-10-18T12:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T12:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/658400\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T12:18:13","slug":"irelands-lara-gillespie-wins-second-world-track-cycling-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/658400\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Lara Gillespie Wins Second World Track Cycling Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Sunday, 18 October 2026 11:40\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__author\">\n                        By Mark Hanbidge\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6831d5484280e.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Gillespie secured the victory following a strong performance across the 100-lap event, overtaking her closest rival on the final bend to seal the title.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Lara Gillespie has claimed gold in the points race at the UCI World Track Championships in China.<\/p>\n<p>The Wicklow cyclist finished on 42 points, five ahead of Denmark&#8217;s Amalie Dideriksen, with Belgium&#8217;s Shari Bossuyt taking bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Gillespie secured the victory following a strong performance across the 100-lap event, overtaking her closest rival on the final bend to seal the title.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the 24-year-old&#8217;s second world championship gold, having won the elimination race in Chile last year.<\/p>\n<p>The victory follows another medal earlier this week, when Gillespie finished second in the scratch race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, 18 October 2026 11:40 By Mark Hanbidge Gillespie secured the victory following a strong performance across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,28328,3770,43],"class_list":["post-658400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kfm","tag-kildare","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658400","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=658400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}