CANADIAN PARA-CYCLING TEAM READY FOR SECOND WORLD CUP

Cycling Canada sends larger team for second stop of World Cup Tour

(Segovia, ESP – June 13, 2013) The Canadian Para-cycling team is ready to take on the World at the second stop of the 2013 UCI Road Para-cycling World Cup tour.

The event is held this weekend in Segovia, Spain, and 10 Canadian para-cyclists will be on the start lines of their respective categories.

The new Canadian women tandem of Robbi Weldon (Thunder Bay, ON) and Emilie Roy (Bromont, QC) will be racing together for the second straight weekend, both in the time trials and the road race. Marie-Claude Molnar (Ste-Agathe, QC), who won a bronze medal in cycling at the Paralympic Games, will be among the group in the C4 races.

In the men’s tandem races, Alexandre Carrier (Bromont, QC) will be racing with a new guide, Aroussen Laflamme (Québec, QC).

In the handcycle categories, Canada will have Mark Ledo (Maple, ON), Robert Labbé (Québec, QC) and Mark Beggs (Montréal, QC) racing the road race, the time trials as well as the team relay.

Shelley Gauthier (Toronto, ON) will be the only Canadian tricycle to race in Spain.

CANADIAN TEAM – 2013 UCI PARA-CYCLING WORLD CUP

Robbi Weldon (BVI) (37, Thunder-Bay, ON)

Emilie Roy (Pilot) (26, Bromont, QC)

Marie-Claude Molnar (C4) (30, St Agathe, QC)

Shelley Gautier (T1) (45, Toronto, ON)

Mark Ledo (H3) (36, Maple, ON)

Robert Labbe (H1) (48, Québec, QC)

Mark Beggs (H2) (36, Montréal, QC)

Alexandre Carrier (BVI) (25, Bromont, QC)

Aroussen Laflamme (Pilot) (35, Québec, QC)