28-07-2025
Drogheda youth cyclist Ciara O'Connor handed dream chance to race for team in Belgium
Drogheda Independent
Today at 06:30
It has been confirmed that Drogheda Wheelers CC youth rider Ciara O'Connor will join Belgian team Golazo Young Lions for the start of the cyclocross season.
Ciara will race with the Belgian team while abroad and will continue to represent Drogheda Wheelers when she is racing in Ireland.
Last week she met with two-time World champion Sven Nys and proudly wore her new team kit at the Sven Nys Cycling Centre in Baal, Belgium, where she had the opportunity to train, and she will return to Belgium in a few weeks' time for more valuable training ahead of the cyclocross season.
Back home, Ciara also took second place in the National Cross-Country Mountain Bike Championships, hosted by MBCC Mountain Biking Club of Cork in very wet and muddy conditions earlier this month.
Ciara also enjoyed international success in Belgium last year and placed third in the U14 race at the UCI Cyclocross World Cup in Dublin, in the grounds of the National Sports Campus in Blanchardstown.
Ciara raced the challenging circuit that world-class professional cyclocross riders such as World champion Fem Van Empel and elite women's winner Lucinda Brand - both of the Netherlands - raced the following day.
