Ronan Grimes secured Ireland's first medal at the Paracycling Track World Championships on a day when four national records fell in Paris.
Grimes took silver in the 4km individual pursuit behind world record holder Jozef Metelka in a time of 4:45.129, preventing the Slovakian from catching and overtaking him.
"I’m delighted really," the Athenry man said afterwards.
"I think today in the individual pursuit, I thought silver would be the best that I ever thought I could get and to come away with it is a great feeling."
🥈🥈🥈Ronan Grimes🥈🥈🥈
— Cycling Ireland (@CyclingIreland) October 20, 2022
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Three of the new national records came in the 200m flying start as Richael Timothy, Chris Burns and Grimes set the fastest times recorded by Irish athletes.
Later in the day, Timothy finished sixth in the WC3 500m time trial, with her time of 42.066 another new national record.
Team Ireland Results - Thursday 20 October:
WC3 Omnium – 200m Flying Start – Richael Timothy: 4th (13.377 New Record)
MC4 Omnium – 200m Flying Start – Ronan Grimes: 7th (11.695 New Record)
MC2 Omnium – 200m Flying Start – Chris Burns 3rd (12.078 New Record)
WC3 500m Time Trial – Richael Timothy: 6th (42.066 New Record in qualifying)
MC4 4km Individual Pursuit – Ronan Grimes: Silver
Team Ireland Schedule - Friday 21 October:
MC2 1km Time Trial – Chris Burns
MB 1km Time Trial Qualifying – Martin Gordon and Eoin Mullen | Damien Vereker and Marcin Mizgajski
WB 3km Individual Pursuit Qualifying - Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal
MC4 15km Scratch Race – Ronan Grimes
WC3 10km Scratch Race – Richael Timothy
