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Ben Healy will lead the Irish men\u2019s road race team into the UCI World Road Championships in Rwanda next month, on a climbers\u2019 course at high altitude (Photo: Toby Watson) <\/p>\nBen Healy will lead the Irish men\u2019s road race team into the UCI World Road Championships in Rwanda next month, on a climbers\u2019 course at high altitude (Photo: Toby Watson) <\/p>\n
The Irish elite men\u2019s team has been named for the UCI World Road Championships in Rwanda next month, when the riders will face a brutally hard course at high altitude.<\/p>\n
Cycling Ireland has opted to fill its full quota for the championships, selecting a six-man team for the road race and two riders set to compete in the TT. The road race team will be led by Ben Healy, who won a stage at the Tour de France in July and held the yellow jersey for two days.<\/p>\n
His EF Education-EasyPost team boss, Jonathan Vaughthers, recently said the team was all-in in supporting Healy as he prepared for a full tilt at the Worlds.<\/p>\n
Healy already has two top 10s on his palmares from the Worlds in Switzerland last year and the Olympic Games road race; riding for a medal in each event but just being overhaul by chasers in the finals of both races. However, he has progressed even further since then and is a real contender for a medal in Rwanda.<\/p>\n
The Irish team is:<\/p>\n
Rory Townsend Q36.5 Pro Cycling<\/p>\n
Ben Healy EF Education-EasyPost<\/p>\n
Ryan Mullen Reb Bull Bora hansgrohe<\/p>\n
Darren Rafferty EF Education-EasyPost<\/p>\n
Eddie Dunbar Team Jayco AlUla<\/p>\n
Archie Ryan EF Education-Easy Post<\/p>\n
The elite men\u2019s race will be run over 267.5km \u2013 with 5,400m of climbing \u2013 in Kigali on September 28th on a course between 1,400m and 1,765m above sea level. <\/p>\n
The fact Ireland has qualified six places in the race, via its placing in the UCI Nations world rankings, means Cycling Ireland has been able to select all six riders who made the longlist for these Worlds.<\/p>\n
Mullen and Rafferty will take part in the TT on Sunday, September 21st, with all six riders taking on the road race on Sunday, September 28th.<\/p>\n
More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Healy will lead the Irish men\u2019s road race team into the UCI World Road Championships in Rwanda…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-95556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95556","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=95556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}