{"id":779826,"date":"2026-09-23T09:32:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779826\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:32:32","slug":"irish-juniors-make-uci-world-road-champs-debut-in-montreal-tts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779826\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish juniors make UCI World Road Champs debut in Montreal TTs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-210115\" width=\"auto\" height=\"733\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1536\/1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/irish-juniors-make-uci-world-road-champs-debut-in-montreal-tts.jpg\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Rian McCrystal of Team Ireland battles against the watch at the UCI World Road Championships in the junior men&#8217;s TT in Montreal (Photo: Chris Auld-SWpix)<\/p>\n<p>A trio of Irish juniors have made their debuts at the World Road Championships after lining out in the TTs for Team Ireland in Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Though all three have ridden UCI-ranked races already this year, this was a step up onto the biggest stage.<\/p>\n<p>Irish junior men&#8217;s road race champion, Freddie Winkley, was making his debut for Ireland at these Worlds.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s TT, European points race champion Emer Heverin placed 25th, of a 57-rider field.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old from Belfast was 1:26 down on new world champion, Maria Okruci\u0144ska (Poland), after 10.7km of racing on the flat course.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stickybottle.com\/people\/european-champ-heverin-17-at-the-worlds-im-not-putting-pressure-on-myself-210091\" aria-label=\"European champ Heverin (17) at the Worlds | &quot;I&#039;m not putting pressure on myself\u201d\" class=\"block flex-shrink-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/european-champ-heverin-17-at-the-worlds-quot-i-039-m-not-putting-pressure-on-myself-rdquo.jpg\" class=\"max-w-full w-full w-full h-auto !my-0\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" alt=\"European champ Heverin (17) at the Worlds | &quot;I'm not putting pressure on myself\u201d\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stickybottle.com\/latest-news\/seth-dunwoody-losing-your-little-brother-is-suffering-not-crashing-at-the-worlds-210093\" aria-label=\"Dunwoody | &quot;Losing your little brother is suffering, not crashing at the Worlds&quot;\" class=\"block flex-shrink-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dunwoody-quot-losing-your-little-brother-is-suffering-not-crashing-at-the-worlds-quot.jpg\" class=\"max-w-full w-full w-full h-auto !my-0\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" alt=\"Dunwoody | \" losing=\"\" your=\"\" little=\"\" brother=\"\" is=\"\" suffering=\"\" not=\"\" crashing=\"\" at=\"\" the=\"\" worlds=\"\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a really tough course, especially having not had a lot of time on the TT bike, but I\u2019m glad to have ticked off my first road Worlds event,&#8221; said Heverin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m really looking forward to Friday and the road race now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the junior men&#8217;s TT, over the longer distance of 20.3km, Winkley placed 46th of the 69-rider field, some 2:22 down on gold medal winner Benjam\u00edn Noval (Spain).<\/p>\n<p>R\u00edan McCrystal, the winner of the Quanta Capital Junior Tour of Ireland this year, placed 52nd at 2:43.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-210117\" width=\"auto\" height=\"636\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 800\/636\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790155952_252_irish-juniors-make-uci-world-road-champs-debut-in-montreal-tts.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Emer Hevrin has already won a European junior title on the track this year and was making her debut on the road in a major championships in Montreal (Photo: Chris Auld-SWpix)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rian McCrystal of Team Ireland battles against the watch at the UCI World Road Championships in the junior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-779826","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\/779826","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=779826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}