Scanlon leads World Championship team

CYCLING IRELAND yesterday announced their selections for next week’s World Road Cycling Championships in Madrid.

Mark Scanlon, of AG2R, leads the Grant Thornton Team Ireland, which features David O’Loughlin, Navigators Insurance, National Road Race Champion for 2005 and David McCann, Giant Asia.

The Espoir (U23) team will be led by Philip Deignan and includes Páidí O’Brien, Andrew McQuaid, Miceal Concannon and Ryan Connor, while Siobhán Dervan of LOTTO Ladies is the sole Irish representative in the women’s elite category, having overcome a recent illness scare.