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In the 50-rider race, Irish gravel champion Fox finished in 36:13 down on new world champion Marianne Vos (Netherlands), with Shafer at 39:04.<\/p>\n
In the Men’s 40-44 race, Roche was among a three-man group that broke clear and fought it out for the medals.<\/p>\n
However, he threw his efforts into trying to get clear of his rivals, and when he was closed down had to settle for 3rd, behind winner Johnny Hoogerlan (Netherlands) and runner-up Ivan Seledkov (Russia).<\/p>\n
The main results for the Irish are as follows:<\/p>\n
Elite Women | Gabrielle Fox 29th, Nicole Shafer 34th
\nMen 19-34 | Alexis Roche 21st
\nMen 40-44 | Nicholas Roche 3rd
\nWomen 40-44 | Maria Ludden 9th
\nMen 55-59 | Richard McCauley 7th
\nMen 60-64| Des Woods 4th, Michael Jordan 14th<\/p>\n
In the Men’s 60-64 race, Woods missed out on a medal in an event where the home riders clearly had an advantage; Australians Tim Jamieson and Richard Walsh claiming gold and silver in a two-man move.<\/p>\n
Switzerland’s Michael Buser was 3rd at 2:32, with Woods in 4th at 5:16, and just holding off Norway’s Jan Olav Beitmyren after the duo finished together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabrielle Fox, the Irish gravel champion, tackles the red mud in Australia during the elite women’s race at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-801387","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\/801387","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=801387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Gabrielle Fox, the Irish gravel champion, tackles the red mud in Australia during the elite women’s race at the UCI Gravel World Championships (Photo: James Raison-SWpix.com)<\/p>\n![\"Lara](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/lara-gillespie-on-the-eve-of-worlds-quot-these-were-my-best-sprint-efforts-ever-quot.jpg\")
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