{"id":716679,"date":"2026-07-29T05:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716679\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T05:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:07:20","slug":"dubliner-moran-15-announces-himself-with-two-medals-at-europeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716679\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubliner Moran (15) announces himself with two medals at Europeans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oscar Moran gets ready for the off – and two medals – at the Europeans in Romania (Photo: Massimo Fulgenzi-Sprint Cycling Agency)<\/p>\n

The few seasons since the end of the pandemic has thrown up young Irish cycling talent at a rate of knots, and now we have another name to add to that list, Oscar Moran.<\/p>\n

The 15-year-old from Goatstown, south Dublin, went to the UEC MTB Youth European Championships in Romania at the weekend, rode up a storm and claimed two bronze medals.<\/p>\n

While that was an incredible breakthrough for any young rider, he still has another season to come in the U16 ranks.<\/p>\n

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While Moran, who rides for EPIC MTB, performed very strong in all of the races he rode at the Europeans, his two medals came in his first and last events; the TT and the XCO.<\/p>\n

Moran was leader in the 2km TT for a long time, over two seconds faster than the next rider, before two late starters – both second-year juniors – finisher strongly for gold and silver.<\/p>\n

And in the XCO, over 50 minutes, the young Irish rider led the way solo for a period, before being caught by a select group which he stayed with.<\/p>\n

The eventual winner then powered ahead solo, with the silver medal man going clear in the same manner. Moran was then left in a group of four sprinting for bronze, with the Irish rider having too much for his rivals at the last.<\/p>\n

More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Moran gets ready for the off – and two medals – at the Europeans in Romania (Photo:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-716679","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\/716679","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=716679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}