For the much-delayed final review of the year, we've listed all the championship and medal-winning results from the club - provincial, national and world titles. We do apologise for the delay, but one-handed typing is very little fun!

It was a standout year for the women of Orwell, with Naoise Sheridan taking two golds at the National Youth Track Champs, and competing strongly at the road events in Limerick in August. Isabel Cogan, not sated by her Boyne GP win, took a superb top ten spot at the Elite Women's National Road Race Champs, with Rachel Glendon also featuring in the TT event.

Cogan also succeeded Glendon in the Leinster Hill Climb Champs, retrieving the women's title for the club, while Aidan Collins took gold in the A2 category.

Orla Hendron showed that class never fades, riding strongly on the track to take two medals at the Leinster Track Champs, before doing the very same at the UCI Track Cycling Masters World Championships in Manchester - missing out on a World Champion jersey by the slimmest of margins. Fionn Sheridan matched Hendron's haul at the Leinsters, and also medalled at the Nationals.

Former members were as excellent as ever, Lydia Boylan (riding unattached) just missing out on a medal at the Nationals, while Anne Dalton represented the country at the UCI Paracycling World Cup and took home a well-deserved bronze medal.

Enjoy the below, and apologies if we've missed anyone - it's scraped together from several sources, and omissions are likely.



Leinster 25m TT Champs, Carlingford, 12/6/2013

Liam Rowsome - 16th

 

UCI Paracycling World Cup, Segovia, Spain, 14/6/2013

Anne Dalton, Katie-George Dunlevy (Ireland) - 3rd


Dalton and Dunlevy on the podium

 

 

Elite Women's National TT Champs, Carlingford, 20/6/2013

Rachel Glendon - 6th

 

Elite Women's National Road Race Champs, Carlingford, 22/6/2013

Lydia Boylan (u/a) - 4th
Isabel Cogan - 10th
Michelle Geoghegan (Endura Lady Force WW Zeeuws-Vlaanderen) - 11th
Anne Dalton (DID Electrical) - 17th
Lucy Soden - 28th
Sandra Telford - 29th


The Orwell finishers: Soden, Cogan and Telford (photo courtesy of John Troy)

 

Elite Men's National Road Race Champs, Carlingford, 23/6/2013

Eric Downey - 40th

 

National Youth Track Champs, Sundrive Road, 20/7/2013

500m Time Trial
Naoise Sheridan - Gold (U16G)
Conor Murnane - 8th (U16B)

Sprint
Naoise Sheridan - Gold (U16G)

250m Time Trial
Sean Murnane - 5th


The Junior track champions

 

Wexford County Champs, Bunclody, 27/7/2013

Patrick O'Brien - A2 Bronze
Jamie Busher - A3 Bronze

 

All-Ireland Junior Road Race Championships, 18/8/2013

Team prize: Standard Life NRPT (incl. Darragh Long)

 

National Junior Track Champs, Sundrive Road - 24/8/2013

Sprint
Fionn Sheridan - Bronze
Jack Rice - 5th

3km Pursuit
Fionn Sheridan - 4th
Jack Rice - 6th

1km Time Trial
Fionn Sheridan - joint 6th

 

National Youth TT Champs, Birdhill, 24/8/2013

Naoise Sheridan - 4th

 

National Crit Champs, Annacotty, 25/8/2013

Naoise Sheridan - 6th

 

Leinster Hill Climb Champs, Carlingford, 29/8/2013

Isabel Cogan - Gold (W)
Brian McArdle - joint Bronze (A1)
Aidan Collins - Gold (A2)
Neal Hudson - Silver (A3)


Cogan with 2nd placed Ger Gill, and 3rd Claire McEntee (courtesy Cuchulainn CC)

 

Leinster Track Champs, Sundrive Road, 21/9/2013

500m TT
Orla Hendron - Bronze (SW)
Fionn Sheridan - Bronze (JM)
Naoise Sheridan - Silver (U16G)

Scratch
Orla Hendron - Silver (SW)
Fionn Sheridan - Silver (JM)
Naoise Sheridan - Gold (U16G)


Orwell medallists at the track champs

 

Leinster RR Champs, Dunlavin, 22/9/2013

Anne Dalton (DID) - 5th (W)
Brian McNally - 7th (A4)

 

National Hill Climb Championships 2013

Brian McArdle -10th (7th A1)
David Swift - 18th (4th A3)

 

2013 UCI Track Cycling Masters World Championships

Women's 50-54 Individual Pursuit
Orla Hendron (Ireland) - Silver

Women's 50+ Points Race
Orla Hendron (Ireland) - Silver


Hendron on the podium for the Points race (photo thanks to Aidan Reade)