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Congratulations to Susie Mitchel on winning the National Olympic Omnium C/ship with wins in Points ,Pursuit and Elimination while Sarah Gunn secured bronze with wins in both the Flying Lap and the 500m TT. Our club was extra pleased in that we fielded 6 riders in this eve…
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2014 Olympic Omnium
2014 Duane Delaney
It was another very strong performance from our members at the annual Duane Delaney Memorial Track GP at Sundrive Velodrome. Hugo Brennan was the winner of the A cat group and the only rider on the day to do a sub 12 second flying 200m TT with a whopping time of 11.94, followed hot on his heels by…
2013 World Masters
Double Silver at World Masters
Sundrive's Susie Mitchell narrowly missed out on the perfect end to the perfect season with taking the silver medal in the 2k Pursuit. Once again she went into the final as underdog trailing her opponent by nearly two seconds, and once again she upped her performanc…
Euro Silver for Mitchell
Last week saw a small contingent of Irish riders compete in the European Masters Track Championship in Newport Wales. The timing of the event for some was not ideal coming just days after an exhausting weekend racing (for our female riders) at the Senior Nationals, but the prospect of getting some m…
Four of the Best!
2013 Leinster Track Championship
Sundrive Track Team showed why they are the 'Neenan Travel Track Team of the Year' with a dominant display in the technical power event that is the 500m Standing Start TT with four Golds - Eoin Healy (Sen), Terry Cromer (Vet) , Susie Mitchell (Women) and Hugo Brennan …
Mullen defends Sprint Title
2013 Senior Track Championships
Eoin Mullen took a break from traininig in Switzerland and successfully defended his Men's Senior Sprint Title with relative ease. It is important to him to have right to wear his National Champions Jersey at International Competition and he is always proud to compete …
Triple Gold at Juniors
Another stroing showing from the Mullen clan, with Michelle taking both the Sprint and Standing Start 500m titles in the Junior Women category setting a National Record for the Flying 200 in the Sprint qualifier. Hugo Brennan dipped under 12 sec for the first time, further bettering his Stadium Jun…
Team Sprint - clean sweep!
Sundrive enjoyed probably its most successful day ever on the track winning both Men and Women's Team Sprint National Championships and breaking both National Records enroute. To put icing on the cake two of Sundrive's newest riders Cliona Murray and Aine McBride took silver in a time that would hav…
2013 Duane Delaney GP
A dominant display by Sundrive's Susie Mitchell, saw her win both the Women's Section and the Overall in the Duane Delaney Track Grand Prix, the opening event of the 2013 domestic track season. Ray Grogan won a fiercely contested C section, while Terry Cromer was 3rd B. This is a unique event in th…
Dublin International GP
Eoin Mullen riding in colours of the UCI whith whom he is currently on a training scholarship was the dominant male sprinter in a top class international field winning both the Sprint and the Keirin. Congratulations to the Track Commission for assembling such a top class field and successfully runn…
2013 CycloX Nationals
Sundrive's Susie Mitchell added another National Medal to her tally when she won Bronze in 2013 National Track Championsips in a mudfest in Dundalk. She was in esteemed company with the win going to Fran Meehan (Tullamore) from Melanie Spath (Cycloeways). Susie was ren seconds down on Clair Oakely …
Susie : World Champion!!!
It is not without irony that when Irish cycling should be celebrating our latest World Champion, that the date coincides with the breaking of the Lance Armstrong story. Certainly over shadowed once again its news about doping that people are more interested in reading about. Susie Mitchell (Sundriv…
2012 Leinster Track
Superb double Gold for Sean Curtis with many of our riders inclding Susie, Hugh and Hugo knocking chunks off the personal best timesand indeed Susie addiing a Leinster Gold to her four Senior National medals for the 2012 season. Very impressive display from 1st Year Junior Hugo Brennan in his first …
Track Team of the Year
With ten more points added from the Senior Narionals The Sundrive Club won the 'Neenan Travel Track Team of the Year' with an impressive total of 35 points, 16 points clear of their nearest rivals. Strangely enough this is the first year that the Sundrive Club even featured in the top three, with pr…
2012 Track Nationals
Sundrive Sprinter Eoin Mullen emphasised his dominance to take both the Sprint and the Kilo, making it a total of four out of four Sprint Events for 2012. Indeed he posted the fastest ever time recorded at the Sundrive Track in qualifying with a time of 10.92 beating previous best by 8/10ths of a se…
Team Sprint Double
All the squad training paid off when Sundrive took both titles with both Men and Women's Team secured Gold. This a a feat repeated from 2009 but the Women's event was only a Demostration Level at this stage. The men's team were lead out by Keith Meghan, followed by Eoin Mullen and Donal Bailey. O…
Omnium Bronze for Susie
A remarkable achievement from Sundrive Masters rider, Susie Mitchell when she won a Bronze medal in the Women's Olympic Omnium Championship just 5 weeks after giving birth to baby Tori. with consistant scoring across the six disciplines. She was in joint 4th place after Day 1 (Flying 250, Points a…
Eoin Mullen : World Cup Debut!
Well the day we all could see coming from way back has finally arrived when Sundrive sprinter Eoin Mullen takes to the world stage in the London round of the UCI Track World Cup. This is a day we could see coming from a long way back, even before he won his first Junior title. He has come such a lo…
Series win for Susie
Sundrive rider Susie Mitchell continued on her winning ways with a win in the final round of the Steevens Supercross Cup in Tymon Park. That made it 4 wins in a row which sealed overall victoty in the Series. Susie will now continue with building he stamina base for her primary objective - Track.…