Dean Harvey takes the best result of the season at Vuelta a Extremadura

After a very strong performance in the final stage, Dean Harvey (Martigues Sport Cyclisme Payden-Rygel) achieved its best result in the attack on the Vuelta A Extremadura stage race in Spain.

In Italy, the Irish driver Adam Kelly (Mg.K Vis Cosstruzioni e Ambiente) achieved a significant performance with a outlier of 140 km at the 175 km long UCI-1.2-racing racing popolarissima.

Harvey (22), who has won the National Cyclocross Championships in the past three years, was in a outlier in a outlier for a large part of the 153 km level from Finca El Toril to Los Santos de Maimona in southeastern Spain.

When the group in which Harvey was, what was left of the peloton was closed, the Irish driver had his legs to resume the attack, and held the group to the goal.

He took the 2nd place, about 17 seconds behind the solo winner Adrian Benito, a 20-year-old Spanish driver, with which (Extremadura-Pebetero) competed. The group, which sprints in third place and contains the yellow jersey Ferre Geereraerts (DL Chemicals-Experza), was only a second behind Harvey and was led by the British Charlie Meredith (Grupo Eulen-Nuuk).

That was a strong performance by Harvey on a clumpy course that came in a race with 100 starters. He was aggressive over the stage and the fact that he had his legs to go alone and take a place on the podium after his renegade group was neutralized, concludes that he is in great condition.

Harvey, the only Irish driver in the race, was in a large group of 20 seconds after the winner Tyler Tomkinson (Balmoral Cycle Club) in the opening level on Friday; The Australian leads in a four-man outline. On Saturday 2 Harvey was at 1:51 38. And took the 24th overall at 2:16 a.m.

A number of Irish drivers were also used in Popolarissima in Treviso, Italy. Adam Kelly, a former U23 international, made the one-day outlier, who was clear for about 140 km before he was caught.

Seth Dunwoody (Bahrain Victorious Devo) made his debut as the U23 – after the previously planned race had been postponed for him. Although the race came on a sprint, Dunwoody was affected by accidents on this day and was denied the opportunity to enter the mix.

The race was won by Ivan Smirnov, a 26-year-old Russian with (XDS Astana Development Team), with the former Irish U23 road racing master Jamie Mehan (AVC Aix Provence Dole) in 35th place.

After his expenditure, Dunwoody was 71st after his expenditure, while Kelly took 125th place after his outlier efforts at 1:26 a.m.