{"id":636288,"date":"2026-06-13T07:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T07:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636288\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T07:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T07:43:15","slug":"katie-george-dunlevy-and-linda-kelly-strike-gold-at-european-championships-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636288\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie-George Dunlevy and Linda Kelly strike gold at European Championships \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/katie-george-dunlevy\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/katie-george-dunlevy\/\">Katie-George Dunlevy<\/a> and Linda Kelly secured gold at the UEC European Championships in Maniago, Italy on Friday, winning the time trial narrowly in advance of Britain\u2019s Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The reigning world champions in the event, Dunlevy and Kelly added another title to their successful partnership, covering the 27.9km distance in 36:24.06, 0.75 seconds in advance of Unwin and Holl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dunlevy and Kelly together won gold in the time trial at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, and silver in the individual pursuit and road race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A second Irish duo, Sinead Greenan and Alice Sharpe, finished fourth in the WB time trial in Maniago, clocking 37:32.7, while Italy\u2019s Marianna Agostini and Elena Bissolati were third in 36:57.80.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In the WC2 category, Heather Jameson took bronze behind Switzerland\u2019s Flurina Rigling and Britain\u2019s Amelia Cass, and there was also a third-place finish for Richael Timothy in the WC3 event, Germany\u2019s Marie Quellhorst and France\u2019s Tifany Huot Marchand taking first and second respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">After a strong start, Steve McGowan crashed out of the MH3 time trial, while Allister MacSorley finished fifth in the MH4 category. And in the MB time trial, Damien Vereker and Mitchell McLaughlin took eighth, with Ciaran O\u2019Toole and Con Scully finishing 15th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie-George Dunlevy and Linda Kelly secured gold at the UEC European Championships in Maniago, Italy on Friday, winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,214982,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-636288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-katie-george-dunlevy","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636288","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=636288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}