9 NATIONAL RECORDS BROKEN 57 TITLES WON AT CANADIAN TRACK NATIONS
Milton, ON (September 4, 2022) – After three intense days of racing at the Mattamy Cycling Centre in Milton, Ontario, 57 new national titles were awarded at the 2022 Canadian Track Championships along with nine national records broken, making for an exciting weekend.
Para-cyclist, Mel Pemble, set the tone, breaking the first Canadian record of the weekend in the women’s C3 Time Trial with a time of 40.379 seconds, smashing the record she previously held by 1.83 seconds. The British Columbia rider then went on to break another national record in the Individual Pursuit the category later in the weekend.
Denise Magnini (Time Trial), Keith Bruneau (Time Trial, 200m Sprint), Frank Kovacs (Time Trial, 200m Sprint), Guy McLintock (200m Sprint) and Uli Mayer (Individual Pursuit) all can call themselves Canadian Champions and National Record holders in their respective Master categories.
On the Elite side, heavy hitters like Kelsey Mitchell, Lauriane Genest, Nick Wammes and Maggie Coles-Lyster were all in attendance. Over the three days, Mitchell would sweep the women’s sprint events along with taking the crowd by surprise with a bronze in the women’s Team Pursuit alongside Jackie Boyle, Sarah Orban and Kathryn Ayroud. Olympian, Nick Wammes, sought to take his own Sprint sweep but would be shy by two events to take bronze in the men’s Kilo and taking the silver to James Hedgcock by 0.005 seconds in the Keirin.
Fresh off her Commonwealth Games bronze, Maggie Coles-Lyster came back home after racing around the world with big goals. She would take the overall win in the women’s Omnium, winning three out of four events.
“It was nice coming off a high of third, fourth, fifth at Commonwealth Games, and then coming into nationals and having my legs back again after a bit of time off I was excited,” said Coles Lyster after taking the win in front of a home crowd. “My goal coming into the Omnium was to win every race. I wanted to show what I’ve found myself capable of this year and what I’ve put a lot of work into. I made three out of four of those happen. It was really cool having the top three all be from B.C. and it was really competitive which made for some good racing.”
Men’s endurance racing saw, Junior World Champions, Carson Mattern and Dylan Bibic who looked to win Elite titles. Racing in an experienced field the two were able to take home maple leaf jerseys with Bibic taking gold in the Omnium, overtaking strong athletes including Tokyo 2020 Olympian Michael Foley. He would then end his event schedule to take the win in the Madison alongside Mathias Guillemette where they won every sprint of the race. Coming off his double rainbow jersey wins just weeks ago, Mattern saw the top of the podium in the Men’s Pursuit with teammates Sean Richardson, Amiel Flett-Brown and Daniel Fraser-Maraun.
With the wrap up of 2022 domestic track events, Elites will prepare for World Championships in Saint-Quentin, France, then will come back home for the 2023 Canadian Championships for Elites and Masters slated for January 6-8 in Milton. List of all Canadian Champions along with medallists and results can be found here.
