Vereker finishes eighth in final road race event
2024 Paris Paralympic Games - Para Cycling Road, Clichy-sous-bois, Paris, France - Men's B Road Race Ireland’s Damien Vereker with Pilot Mitchell McLaughlin. Photo: INPHO/Tom Maher
Waterford's Damien Vereker and his pilot Mitchell McLaughlin have finished in eighth place in the men's B road cycling event at the Paris Paralympics this afternoon.
The duo, who sat in sixth spot for much of the grueling 127.8km event, gave it their all before finishing in a time of 3:04:18.
There was a three-way photo finish after almost three hours of action with The Netherlands' Tristan Bangma and his pilot Patrick Bos finished just two hundreds of a second ahead of compatriots Vincent ter Schure and Timo Fransen in 2:55:10, with France's Alexandre Lloveras and Yoann Paillot taking bronze in 2:55:18.
