Kelly Murphy (born 3 November 1989) is an Irish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . She was elite women's national champion in the time trial event in 2018 & 2019 and represented Ireland in this event at the European and World Championships in these same years. At the

2019 European Road Championships The 2019 European Road Cycling Championships was the 25th running of the European Road Cycling Championships, that took place from 7 to 11 August 2019 in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. The event consisted of a total of 6 road races and 7 time trials, ...

, Murphy finished 10th in the TT and in doing so became the first Irish woman to place within the top 10 at any international road event. 2020 track worlds tp

Murphy also represents Ireland on the track, most notably for women's team pursuit. Together with

Mia Griffin Mia Griffin (born 30 December 1998) is an Irish professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . She rode in the women's team pursuit event at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Berlin Ber ...

Lara Gillespie Lara Gillespie (born 21 April 2001) is an Irish professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team UAE Team ADQ Development Team. At the 2018 UEC European Junior Track Championships Gillespie won Gold in the Poi ...

and

Alice Sharpe Alice Louise Sharpe (born 3 May 1994) is an Irish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . She rode in the women's road race event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships. She was the Women's Elite Irish National ...

, Murphy was part of the line up that set a new Irish record of 4:21.368 at the

2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were held in Berlin, Germany from 26 February to 1 March 2020. Schedule 20 events were held: ''All times are local (UTC+1).'' Medal summary Medal table Men Women *Shaded events are no ...

in Berlin, finishing 8th place in the process. The same quartet came close to this time again at the 2021 UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup in St. Petersburg, where they won the gold medal against Russia, becoming the first women's team pursuit squad to medal at an international event. Later in that same competition, Murphy rode in the women's individual pursuit and set a new national record of 3:29.510 in qualifying, then went on to win a second gold against Russia in the medal ride-off. Before turning to cycling full-time in 2018, Murphy completed a doctoral degree in Brain Imaging & Cognitive Neuroscience at Aston University, her PhD thesis is entitled: "On the Neural Basis of Reading: Using Interactions Between Semantics and Phonology to Dissociate Typical, Deviant and Delayed Reading with

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow. This technique relies on the fact that cerebral blood flow and neuronal activation are coupled. When an area o ...

and Magnetoencephalography"

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Murphy, Kelly 1989 births Living people Irish female cyclists Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Irish women 21st-century Irish women Cyclists from Greater London Sportspeople from Hillingdon Alumni of Aston University