Silver for Roan Grimes in the MC4 event at the Para-Cycling Road World Championships

Ronan Grimes has won a silver medal in the MC4 Road Race at the Para-Cycling Road World Championships in Glasgow.

The Athenry native set out to retain the World Championships title he won in Canada last year but he was second best in a two-up sprint, with French rider Kevin le Cuff taking the victory.

An early attack by Jozef Metelka was brought back to form a leading group of nine riders featuring the race favourites. Racing over six laps of the 15.6km circuit, the lead group extended their advantage with each lap.

A crash in the lead group in the fourth lap dwindled the group down to just six riders and on the final lap, Le Cuff attacked, and Grimes was the only rider in the lead group able to follow his wheel and the pair worked well together to extend their gap ensuring the race would be decided between the two of them.

Le Cuff outsprinted Grimes to take gold, with Grimes adding silver medal to the two bronze he won last week on track.