Irish trio clock new national record in Cali

Jennifer O’Reilly, Ciara Horne and Caroline Ryan underlined their continuing strong progress in track cycling with an excellent performance in the World Cup in Cali, Colombia yesterday.

The trio went over five seconds quicker than their national record set at the European championships in Pruszkow, Poland, last month.

They covered the 3,000 metre distance in a time of three minutes 31.708 seconds, besting their previous record by over five seconds.