Eoghan Clifford

Eoghan Clifford
Ph.D.

Personal information
Nationality	Irish
Born	26 August 1980 Galway, Ireland
Sport
Country	Ireland
Sport	Track and road cycling
Disability class	C3
Medal record Representing  Ireland Para-cycling Summer Paralympics 2016 Rio de Janeiro Road time trial C3 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual pursuit C3 Road World Championships 2014 Greenville Road race (C3) 2014 Greenville Time Trial (C3) 2015 Nottwil Time trial (C3) Track World Championships 2015 Apeldoorn Scratch Race (C3) 2015 Apeldoorn 3km pursuit (C3) 2016 Montichiari 3km pursuit (C3)

Eoghan Clifford (born 26 August 1980) is an Irish Paralympic racing cyclist competing in C3 classification events. Clifford has represented Ireland at both road and track disciplines and is a multiple UCI Para-cycling World Champion, winning the C3 road race and the C3 time trial in Greenville in 2014, the scratch race at the track world championships in Apeldoorn in 2015 and the time trial event at Nottwil in 2015. He also won a bronze medal at the track world champions for the C3 pursuit in Apeldoorn in 2015 and Montichiari in 2016.

Personal history

Eoghan Clifford was born in 1980 in Dublin and grew up in Bruff, Co. Limerick, Ireland. Eoghan attended both Primary and Secondary school in Bruff and then went on to study at University in Galway. He lives with Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, a hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, but still races at a national level in able-bodied events. Dr Clifford now works as a Lecturer in NUI Galway, and lives in Galway.^[1]

References

1. "Eoghan Clifford". paralympics.ie. Retrieved 9 August 2016.