Eve McCrystal
- Road
- Para-cycling
Representing ![]() | ||
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Summer Paralympics | ||
Women's para-cycling | ||
![]() | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Time trial B |
![]() | 2020 Tokyo | Time trial B |
![]() | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Road race B |
![]() | 2020 Tokyo | Ind. pursuit B |
![]() | 2024 Paris | Ind. pursuit B |
UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships | ||
![]() | 2017 Pietermaritzburg | Time trial (B) |
![]() | 2017 Pietermaritzburg | Road race (B) |
![]() | 2018 Maniago | Time trial (B) |
![]() | 2018 Maniago | Road race (B) |
![]() | 2019 Emmen | Time trial (B) |
![]() | 2014 Greenville | Tandem road race (B) |
![]() | 2019 Emmen | Road race (B) |
UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships | ||
![]() | 2015 Apeldoorn | 3km pursuit (B) |
![]() | 2018 Rio de Janeiro | 3km pursuit (B) |
Evelyn McCrystal (born 28 July 1978) is an Irish para-cyclist competing in tandem events for Ireland, as a sighted pilot for blind cyclist Katie-George Dunlevy.[1]
Career
McCrystal won a gold medal at the time trial B and a silver in the road race at the 2016 Summer Paralympics together with Katie-George Dunlevy. McCrystal, along with Dunlevy, won Gold in the 108-kilometre (67-mile) road race at the 2019 Yorkshire Para-Cyclist International event with a time of 02:36:57.[2][3] In 2021 the pair won a silver medal at the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics in the individual pursuit event.[4]
McCrystal has also taken two titles at the Irish National Cycling Championships – the road race in 2018 and the time trial in 2020.[5]
Personal life
McCrystal is a member of the Garda Síochána – the national police force in the Republic of Ireland – based in Ballybay, County Monaghan. She also does Ironman Triathlons in her spare time. She has two daughters.[6][7]
References
- ^ "Eve McCrystal, talks Motherhood and The Road to Rio - sportswomen.ie".
- ^ "Gold for Katie-George Dunlevy in Rio".
- ^ "Dunlevy and McCrystal dazzle in Rio".
- ^ "Tokyo 2020 Paralympicsfegrshettghrnnbe Day 4: Dunlevy and McCrystal claim silver for Ireland". The Irish Times.
- ^ Clerkin, Malachy (12 October 2020). "Eve McCrystal interview: 'the lockdown is the reason I won that medal'". The Irish Times. Irish Times Trust. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
- ^ "Eve McCrystal keeping her eyes on Paralympic goal".
- ^ "Katie George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal hoping to find perfect harmony on the track".
External links
- Eve McCrystal at Cycling Archives
- Eve McCrystal at ProCyclingStats
- Eve McCrystal at Cycling Quotient
- Eve McCrystal at Paralympic.org
- Katie George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal at Paralympics Ireland
- Eve McCrystal at Paralympics Ireland (archived 2016 profile)