{"id":169132,"date":"2025-09-29T23:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169132\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:00:15","slug":"meehan-and-fox-win-irish-gravel-champs-to-top-huge-seasons-for-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169132\/","title":{"rendered":"Meehan and Fox win Irish Gravel Champs to top huge seasons for both"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jamie Meehan has enjoyed an incredible 2025 season and topped it all off today at the National Gravel Championships, where he won gold in the men\u2019s race (Photo: Xavier Pereyron)<\/p>\n

Jamie Meehan (Cofidis) and Gabrielle Fox (UPV) have claimed the main titles at the National Gravel Championships in Co Galway today. It was just the second time that a gravel championships has been run in Ireland.<\/p>\n

For Meehan, the victory is his second national title of the year as he claimed the U23 road race gold when he finished 2nd in the combined U23-senior men\u2019s race at the National Road Championships in Co Meath in June.<\/p>\n

He has also enjoyed his strongest season by far in U23 races in Europe, often climbing with the very best in the big mountains and securing a pro contract with French World Tour team, Cofidis, for the next two years in the process.<\/p>\n

Fox has also experienced her own breakthrough season after a fast-track development phase over the last 12 months saw her race in Australia last winter and then compete all over Europe once the road season started.<\/p>\n

She offered evidence of her progress with a fantastic performance at R\u00e1s na mBan in recent weeks when she took 3rd and 4th on stages. <\/p>\n

Fox topped the podium today from runner-up Ellen McDermott, the former national criterium champion, and Martina Kelly.<\/p>\n

Meehan claimed the men\u2019s title today ahead of runner-up Conn McDunphy (Team Skyline) and last year\u2019s champion Stephen Clancy (Ravet), who had to be content with 3rd place today.<\/p>\n

More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Meehan has enjoyed an incredible 2025 season and topped it all off today at the National Gravel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-169132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}