Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal have won gold at the Paralympics in Rio in the B Tandem at Pontal.
Dunlevy, who has visual impairment, took with sighted tandem pilot McCrystal and finished in a time of 38:59.22.. The 24-year-old Dunleavy lives in Crawley and her father John is from Mountcharles.
[adrotate group=”76″]They claimed gold in the time trail, just minutes after Galway’s Eoghan Clifford won gold in the C3 time trial. Clifford added to the bronze he claimed in the Individual Pursuit on the track last Friday.
MEDAL ALERT! Katie-George Dunlevy & Eve McCrystal have won GOLD in the B Tandem at Pontal in 38:59.22 #TeamIreland pic.twitter.com/hhpqnCr3mZ
— Paralympics Ireland (@ParalympicsIRE) September 14, 2016
She was first introduced onto the cycling scene in August 2011, and has been steadily improving each year. She secured a seventh place finish in the 3km pursuit at the World Track Championships in January 2012, followed up by a fifth place finish at the Road World Cup in Rome May 2012.
[adrotate group=”38″]Dunlevy went on to represent Ireland in the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, and achieved some Personal Bests in the Track Pursuit and Track TT.
In 2014 and her pilot Eve McCrystal, stormed to silver in the Women’s B tandem Road Race at the UCI Para-Cycling Road World Championships in the USA and laid down a marker for a new force to be reckoned with in tandem para-cycling.
