Bronzed Aussies shine at Para Road Worlds

The Aussies continued to shine on the world stage with bronze medals and strong placings on Day 3 of the UCI Para Road World Championships.

Meg Lemon with her bronze medal in the WC4 at the 2019 UCI Para Road World Championships (Casey Gibson) Source: Casey Gibson

While Alistair Donohoe failed to defend his reign in the rainbow jersey in the men's C5, he finished with bronze after a fight at the line with home nation hero Martin van de Pol (Netherlands), the pair finishing 20 seconds behind the winner, Italian Andrea Tarlao. 

Kaitlyn Schurmann also shared in bronze glory, in the WC1 road race finishing behind Wangwei Qian (China) and Katie Toft (Great Britain).

The Aussie trio of Meg Lemon, Hannah MacDougall and Emily Petricola finished 3rd, 4th and 5th in the women's WC4 category with Lemon finishing just one second behind silver medallist Jianping Ruan (China). 

Paige Greco also finished fifth in her WC3 road race. 

For more information visit the Australian Cycling team website