Ottawa, ON (August 12th, 2022) – Cycling Canada is pleased to announce the team representing Canada at the UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Tel Aviv, Israel on August 24-27.

Junior World Champion, and nine-time Junior National Champion, Carson Mattern, will lead the 10 athlete contingent along with Kiara Lylyk who has six-national national titles to her name. The team will take part in most of the events, except for the Sprint, the Keirin and the Team Sprint.

“This year’s cohort for Junior Track Worlds continues to show the strength of our development athletes in Canada,” said National Team coach, Jenny Trew. “The Men’s Team Pursuit is the strongest we have seen in years, as it boasts three men who rode under 3:20 for their Individual Pursuits and the women are poised to perform well given the strength of the riders involved. Athletes are working well together and looking strong heading into the Championships.”

Riders are now taking part in a two-week training camp at the Mattamy National Cycling Center in Milton under the tutelage of former National team rider, turned coach, Kinley Gibson and Richard Wooles, before taking on the the endurance events at the Championships in pursuit of podium finishes and rainbow jerseys.

Full results will be available here.

Roster :
Charles Bergeron – Oakville, ON
Gavin Hadfield – Peterborough, ON
Madeline Lebreton – Mississauga, ON
Kiara Lylyk – Guelph, ON
Carson Mattern – Ancaster, ON
Vanessa Montrichard – Hamilton, ON
Campbell Parrish – Vancouver, BC
Pénélope Primeau – Rosemère, QC
Ethan Powell – Waterloo, ON
Taylor Tompkins – Peterborough, ON

Richard Wooles – Coach
Kinley Gibson – Coach

Birmingham, UK (August 1st, 2022) – Kelsey Mitchell and Maggie Coles-Lyster scored bronze medals in the women’s Keirin and Scratch race. Both athletes took home the final medals for Team Canada on the track to win a total of five medals over the four days of racing.

Endurance athlete, Maggie Coles-Lyster was just shy in a podium finish in yesterday’s women’s Points Race but would come back hungry in her final event on the track to take the first bronze of the day in the Scratch Race in what was a tight finish. After a crash midway through the race, she was able to compose herself and get to the line for third place. Coles-Lyster finished ahead of Canadian teammates, Ariane Bonhomme who finished tenth and Devaney Collier in 11^th.

“This is incredible, it’s my first Commonwealth Games and my first medal here,” said Coles-Lyster. “Was fourth yesterday so to get on the podium today was definitely my goal for this whole Games. I race best when it comes down to a bunch finish like that. It was just a matter of positioning and hanging on to wheels but it was a long sprint at the end. I think my desire for a medal pushed me to get through that last lap. To be here in London with this kind of crowd, you really can’t beat it.”

Riding to her fourth medal, Mitchell took home the second bronze for Canada in Track Cycling in the Keirin, medalling in every event she raced over the four days of competition. After qualifying rounds, she would make it to the 1-6 final against strong contenders including New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews who would make a clear break for gold with Mitchell just behind England’s Sophie Capewell. While Mitchell was the sole Canadian to make the 1-6 final, both Lauriane Genest and Sarah Orban would move on to the 7-12 final with Genest in seventh spot and Orban finishing ninth to cap off their Commonwealth Games schedule.

“I’m happy about getting four medals in the four days mixing it up with a bronze,” said Mitchell. “Keirin is a tough one, and Ellesse and Sophie raced really well and I’m happy to be up on the podium. I’m feeling it in the legs for sure, but the crowd was incredible, and adrenalin kicked in so I didn’t feel it in the legs during the race. We are back to racing again for [Track] Pan Am Champs and then Canadian Nationals, but I love to race so the fun doesn’t stop.”

Road athletes will race next at the Games starting August 4 with both the men’s and women’s Individual Time Trial events before the Road Race on Sunday August 7. Full results and schedules for track and road cycling events can be found here.

Birmingham, UK (July 31, 2021) – Kelsey Mitchell clocked a personal best and won her third straight silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in the women’s 500-metre Time Trial. The podium finish comes after winning silver in both the Team Sprint and women’s Sprint earlier in the week.

Mitchell kicked off racing to set a Commonwealth Games record in a time of 33.294 seconds, before the final rider, Kristina Clonan from Australia, would outride the Olympic Champion, to take top spot and break the record by 0.06 seconds and to the gold.

“I’m really happy with my performance, especially since I don’t usually do the 500, so to do it here and walk away with a medal, I’m really excited,” said Mitchell. “I had a good start where I’m normally weaker in and had a personal best for my start. It felt really spinny towards the end but clocked a pretty good time. It was a bit of an emotional roller coaster since I was the first one to go and had to just sit and wait. In the end, it did end up coming down to the very last rider. You have to win and lose to your competition, and those losses just ignite that fire even more and everyone is pushing each other and it’s awesome.”

For endurance specialists, Maggie Coles-Lyster just missed her shot at getting on the podium in the women’s Points Race in the fight for bronze being just four points behind the third place finisher. After a crash in qualifying rounds of the men’s Scratch Race with Derek Gee having minor injuries as a result, Michael Foley would finish in 12^th place in the final.

Tomorrow will be the final day of racing on the track featuring the women’s Keirin and Scratch Race, and men’s Points Race and Time Trial. Full results and complete schedule for both track and road events at the Games can be found here.

Birmingham, UK (July 29, 2021) – Canadian Team Sprint squad of Sarah Orban, Kelsey Mitchell and Lauriane Genest win silver and Canada’s first medal of the 2022 Commonwealth Games on day one of racing at the Lee Valley VeloPark.

“We wanted that gold but I just went in thinking that there’s nothing to lose and just gave it my one-hundred per cent,” said Sarah Orban. “Stepping on to that podium doesn’t even feel real. I think I’m still trying to process everything. Being alongside my teammates made it that much more special. I’m so proud of both of them. We executed it well and hit our target of getting on the podium and just standing next to them made it that much more special.”

Both the men’s and women’s Team Sprint squads rode through qualifying rounds with the women advancing to the gold medal final only to be edged out by New Zealand by 0.576 seconds. Meanwhile, the men’s Sprint team of Ryan Dodyk, Tyler Rorke and Olympian Nick Wammes, moved to the bronze medal final, also against New Zealand, just missing the podium finishing 0.717 seconds behind the Kiwis to take fourth place.

Endurance squads also took to the track on the first day of racing. Both men’s and women’s Team Pursuit teams fought to advance through to the final medal rounds but coming up just short with teams each finishing in fifth.

“Our team is still pretty new,” said endurance rider and Olympian Ariane Bonhomme. “We just wanted to put our best foot forward and show what we could do. It didn’t work and we are a little disappointed, but we know we can do so much more. This is our beginning for the Paris Olympic Games and we know what we can do from here.”

Racing continues tomorrow with women’s Sprint, Individual Pursuit and men’s Keirin and Individual Pursuit. Stream on CBC Gem and find full results here.