TEAM CANADA EARNS TWO MEDALS AT BRISBANE WORLD CUP

Brisbane, Australia (December 16, 2019) – Canada won two medals at the fifth round of the UCI Track World Cup in Brisbane, Australia. The women’s Team Pursuit secured their second bronze medal in as many weeks while Allison Beveridge won a silver medal in the Omnium having taken a bronze last weekend in Cambridge, New Zealand. The race concludes a three World Cup block for the Canada program over which a total of seven medals were earned in Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia.

On their way to bronze, the women’s Team Pursuit qualified fourth behind New Zealand, Australia and the U.S. and moved to the bronze medal final in a head-to-head against the Americans. The Canadians squad of Beveridge, Georgia Simmerling, Jasmin Duehring, Annie Foreman-Mackey and Ariane Bonhomme rode well to secure their second consecutive medal at a World Cup defeating the U.S. team.

On Sunday, Beveridge rode very strong in the omnium to earn a silver medal. She earned fourth in the Scratch Race, second in the Tempo Race, second in the Elimination Race and third in the Points Race.

In other results, the men’s Team Pursuit finished in sixth place. In the women’s Sprint, Lauriane Genest was fifth and Kelsey Mitchell ninth. Hugo Barrette finished 10th in the men’s Keirin. The endurance athletes head back to New Zealand for a camp to build for the 2020 UCI Track World Championships in Berlin in February while the sprint athletes head back to Canada to prepare for the Milton, World Cup in January.