The Irish women’s team pursuit team of Lara Gillespie, Mia Griffin, Kelly Murphy and Alice Sharpe lowered their Irish record in Jakarta, Indonesia on Friday. Photograph: Sebastian Widmann/Getty Images The Irish women’s team pursuit squad have continued their recent upwards momentum, improving their own national record again for the third time in 15 days.
Alice Sharpe, Kelly Murphy, Lara Gillespie and Mia Griffin set a new mark just over two weeks ago at the European Championships in Switzerland, and on Thursday went a further 2.180 seconds quicker with a time of 4 minutes 17.525 seconds.
They were even faster on Friday’s track session at the UCI Tissot Track Nations Cup in Jakarta, Indonesia, covering the 4,000 metre race distance in 4:16.877.
This reflected a 0.648 second improvement in one day, but agonisingly left them marginally short of fourth place in the competition, a result which would have seen them compete for the bronze medal.
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