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Last Updated: 2 Apr 2018 - 8:45:17 PM |
Honda Supports Irelands Premier Women’s Cycling Event An Post Rás Na mBan
It was announced today that Honda will be the main vehicle sponsor for An Post Rás Na mBan, Ireland’s premier women’s cycling event.
This partnership will see Honda provide the incredibly versatile Honda JAZZ and The World’s Best Selling SUV the Honda CR-V as support cars for the 5 days in South Leinster.
Spectators can expect 400km of racing action with the Honda Time Trial also taking place on Saturday the 10th of September.
Valerie Considine, Race Director, An Post Rás na mBan said today: "We're delighted to have secured this important relationship with Honda Ireland to support our event. Women's cycle racing is developing at an exponential rate throughout the world and our event has grown in line with that expansion in popularity. Staging international stage races is a complicated process and we're delighted that brands and companies of the stature of Honda have chosen to partner with us in the process of bringing top class women's bike racing to the roads of Ireland."
John Saunders, Director of Sales and Marketing, Universal Honda Ltd said today: “I am delighted for Honda to be associated with such a spectacular event and I look forward to seeing the cream of women’s Irish cycling participating on an International level.”
At the launch this afternoon An Post Rás Na mBan competitor Fiona Guihen and Honda brand ambassador Alison Canavan took some time to showcase the benefits of Honda’s multipurpose magic seats for cyclists all over Ireland, simply in three steps you can have your bicycle safely stored in the back seats of your car with still plenty of room in your boot!!
To view the video please see: www.facebook.com/hondacarsireland
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Eurosport to Broadcast TV Highlights
Top TV sports broadcaster Eurosport has confirmed that it will broadcast highlights of this year's An Post Rás na mBan.
Eurosport, the 'Home of Cycling' for bike racing fans in Ireland and across the United Kingdom, will feature the 11th edition of Ireland's top international stage race for women in a half-hour highlights programme to be broadcast on September 25th.
This is the fourth year in succession that Eurosport, available in 14 million homes across the UK and Ireland, will cover the event which moves to a new base in Kilkenny this year..
InForm Sport Media will produce the show which is scheduled for a number of transmissions with the first provisional scheduled broadcast set to dovetail with Eneco Tour cycling coverage on Eurosport One at 12pm on 25th September.
25 teams are getting set for stage one in Kilkenny on Wednesday week, 7th September which will be followed by five further stages over the five days of racing.
An Post Rás na mBan race director Valerie Considine said: "This year's An Post Rás na mBan is set to be the best ever. There is immense quality throughout the entry list and a fabulous new selection of challenging and picturesque stage routes.
"I'm very pleased that we are able to renew our involvement with Eurosport again this year.
"This is one of the few women's bike races being given a proper outlet on television and I'm proud that we're able to showcase the very best of Irish women's bike racing, and the beautiful surroundings for the event, to such a wide audience.
"Thanks to generous support from An Post, Kilkenny County Council and the National Dairy Council we are looking forward to again bringing the event to wider audience with this broadcast."
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