{"id":590548,"date":"2026-05-18T12:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590548\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:27:09","slug":"in-pictures-gralloch-gravel-racers-take-over-galloway-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590548\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Gralloch gravel racers take over Galloway town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of bike riders took over the Galloway town of Gatehouse of Fleet at the weekend for the Gralloch gravel race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">First run in 2023, it saw about 3,000 competitors plus family and friends descend on the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The women&#8217;s race was won by Geerike Schreurs of the Netherlands ahead of Poland&#8217;s Karolina Migon with fellow Dutch racer Wendy Oosterwoud in third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The men&#8217;s race was won by Austria&#8217;s Lukas Postlberger &#8211; once a stage winner at the Giro D&#8217;Italia &#8211; with Great Britain&#8217;s Jenson Young in second and Niels Vandeputte of Belgium in third. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of bike riders took over the Galloway town of Gatehouse of Fleet at the weekend for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-590548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590548","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=590548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}