Ronan Grimes ends his Paracycling Track World Championship campaign with a new national record in the 1km time trial, breaking the record he set at the Paralympic Games.
In his final event of the championships, Grimes claimed a fifth-place finish in the final of the MC4 1km time trial.
Grimes who won silver in the individual pursuit on Thursday, set the fifth quickest time in qualifying earlier today producing an impressive time of 1:09.252 just two tenths of a second off the national record.
In the final Grimes went even quicker setting a new national record, breaking his record by nearly half a second and for the first time dipping below 1:09. His time of 1:08.666 was enough to secure him with fifth place in the event, putting him in fourth place in the omnium after four events, just two points behind the bronze medallist.
Speaking after the event Grimes said: "It's taken me years to get to this 1:08 level today, I’m delighted to finish on a high.
"I’m delighted to have gotten the medal in the pursuit. I think maybe if I had raced a conservative scratch race, I might’ve come away with a result in the omnium but I’m actually happy to have gone out to try win that race."
Meanwhile Chris Burns knocked a whole eight seconds off his PB as competition concluded for Richael Timothy and tamdem duo Damien Vereker and Marcin Mizgajski.
Burns smashed his record in the MC2 3km individual pursuit by a massive eight seconds. The Banbridge native covered the 3000 metres in 3:50.661, going a whole eight seconds quicker than his previous best time.
He finished in 9th place and still maintains a top five position in the omnium which ranks riders based on four events: flying 200, individual pursuit, 500m/kilo time trial and scratch race. With one event remaining – the scratch race tomorrow, Burns is tied in fifth place in the omnium.
Timothy concluded her campaign finishing in isixth place in the WC3 individual pursuit covering the 3000m distance in a time of 4:15.816.
Vereker and Mizgajski set a new competition PB in the tandem individual pursuit to finish in eighth place. Their time of 4:21.153 was a new PB for them, improving massively on the time they set the last occasion they competed together at the Paracycling Track World Championships in 2020.
