{"id":591841,"date":"2026-09-06T10:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/591841\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:10:10","slug":"para-cyclists-battle-heat-at-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/591841\/","title":{"rendered":"Para cyclists battle heat at World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p-font\">US-based Wellingtonian Rory Mead has finished fifth in the opening time trial at the UCI Para cycling Road World Championships in the USA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-font\">Blazing hot conditions made for a demanding test over the 14.6kms individual time trial to start the championships in Huntsville, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-font\">Mead, who was fourth in the world championship time trial last year in Belgium, found the conditions challenging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-font\">Frenchman Florian Jouanny, the Olympic champion, successfully defended his world title, finishing 17 seconds clear of Italian legend Luca Mazzone, a 10-time Paralympic medallist, with American Cody Wills a minute behind in third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-font\">Nicole Murray has finished 11th in the women\u2019s C5 time trial on day two of the Championships. Murray, a medallist on the track at the recent Commonwealth Games, clocked 45:56.20 for the 29.2km two-lap test today, with riders tested by temperatures reaching 40 degrees and high humidity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-font\">Young French double world champion Heidi Gaugain claimed the title in 39:14.49, finishing over a minute clear of Alana Forster (AUS) and Crystal Lane-Wright.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-font\">The New Zealander was 12th fastest over the first lap and improved one spot, averaging 38kph over the 29.2km test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-font\">Murray will turn her attention to the road race on Tuesday NZT, with Kiwi hand cyclist Rory Mead competing in the road race tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US-based Wellingtonian Rory Mead has finished fifth in the opening time trial at the UCI Para cycling Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-591841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}