Irish duo strike LA gold

Ireland’s women’s tandem pursuit pair of Catherine Walsh and Fran Meehan won gold at the Paracycling Track World Championship in Carson, LA yesterday.

The pair were in the first final ‘ride-off’ against the British pairing of Aileen McGlynn and Helen Scott and rode a superbly-paced race. The British duo led by almost a second by the halfway stage but Walsh and Meehan pegged them back and produced a storming finish to win the gold.

The men’s tandem of James Brown and pilot Damian Shaw won silver in the pursuit event.