Introducing Emer Heverin | Ireland’s newest elite champion at 16-years-old

Emer Heverin leads the breakaway - in the order their finished - from Aine Doherty, Linda Kelly and Erin Creighton (Photo: Toby Watson) It’s easy to find the similarities between world and European track champion Lara Gillespie and Emer Heverin from Belfast. On Sunday, in lashing rain in Dublin 16-year-old Heverin took an impressive victory in the elite National Criterium Championships.

Introducing Emer Heverin | Ireland’s newest elite champion at 16-years-old. Emer Heverin leads the breakaway - in the order their finished - from Aine Doherty, Linda Kelly and Erin Creighton (Photo: Toby Watson) It’s easy to find the similarities between world and European track champion Lara Gillespie and Emer Heverin from Belfast. On Sunday, in lashing rain in Dublin 16-year-old Heverin took an impressive victory in the elite National Criterium Championships. Eight years ago, then a fresh-faced 16-year-old, Gillespie similarly announced herself by winning the elite race at the National Cyclocross Championships. Gillespie, like Heverin, was a star youth rider before that first big win as a first-year junior, and the same came be said of Gillespie. And while Wicklow’s Gillespie has since become a star of road and track, Heverin is just em...