The Canadian athletes selected for the Tissot UCI Track Cycling World Cup Milton will be available on Thursday, January 23^rd, for interviews and scrums previous to their last official training session at the Mattamy National Cycling Centre.

Media interested in attending the event are asked to RSVP to Philippe Tremblay.

When: 
Thursday, January 23^rd

8:55 – Official team photo
9:00-10:00 – Interviews and photo/video opportunities
10:20 – 11:340 – Official training session
*Accredited media are asked to arrive 15 minutes prior to pick up their accreditation passes for the Tissot UCI Track Cycling World Cup.

Where: 
Mattamy National Cycling Centre – Community Entrance
2015 Pan Am Boulevard
Milton, ON, L9E 0K7

Who: 
Team Canada

• Hugo Barrette – Sprint
• Lauriane Genest – Sprint
• Kelsey Mitchell – Sprint
• Stephanie Roorda – Women’s Track Endurance
• Miriam Brouwer – Women’s Track Endurance
• Devaney Collier – Women’s Track Endurance
• Erin Attwell – Women’s Track Endurance
• Kinley Gibson – Women’s Track Endurance
• Evan Burtnik – Men’s Track Endurance
• Chris Ernst – Men’s Track Endurance
• Amiel Flett-Brown – Men’s Track Endurance
• Jackson Kinniburgh – Men’s Track Endurance
• Ethan Ogrodniczuk – Men’s Track Endurance
• Sean Richardson – Men’s Track Endurance
• Riley Pickrell – Men’s Track Endurance

Pedal 2 The Medal

• Joel Archambault – Sprint
• Nick Wammes – Sprint
• Amelia Walsh – Sprint
• Sarah Orban – Sprint

Milton, Ontario (January 14, 2020) – Team Canada will close out the 2019-2020 UCI Track World Cup season on home soil from January 24 to 26, marking Canada’s third consecutive year hosting the world cup series at the Mattamy National Cycling Centre. Cycling Canada will send a full roster of Olympic calibre sprinters and a deep endurance squad of developing riders.

2016 Rio Olympian Hugo Barrette will be the only male sprinter competing for Team Canada, accompanied by RBC Training Ground athlete Kelsey Mitchell and Lauriane Genest. While Mitchell has had the best season of her life, which include breaking the world record in the 200 m sprint and winning several world cups medals, Genest has also had a breakthrough season where she won her first-ever world cup medal in the Keirin. Four other Canadian sprinters will also be competing under the Trade Team P2M.

Canada’s endurance squad will be led by veteran Steph Roorda and will feature male and female NextGen and development riders, including Pan Am medallists Erin Attwell and Miriam Brouwer, as well as many talented U23 riders.

Spectators will be able to take in the unique atmosphere of world class track cycling while enjoying concessions and beverages from Steam Whistle and Fat Tire, as well as expos from several high profile brands.

For more information and tickets, visit https://www.twcmilton.com/.

Team Canada

Women’s Endurance
Erin Attwell – Victoria, BC
Miriam Brouwer – Burlington, ON
Devaney Collier – Edmonton, AB
Kinley Gibson – Edmonton, AB
Steph Roorda – Vancouver, BC

Men’s Endurance
Evan Burtnik – Edmonton, AB
Chris Ernst – Kitchener, ON
Amiel Flett-Brown – Vancouver, BC
Jackson Kinniburgh – Calgary, AB
Ethan Ogrodniczuk – Vancouver, BC
Sean Richardson – Vancouver, BC
Riley Pickrell – Victoria, BC

Sprint
Hugo Barrette – Îles-de-la-Madeleine, QC
Lauriane Genest – Lévis, QC
Kelsey Mitchell – Sherwood Park, AB

Team P2M
Joel Archambault – Sainte-Christine, QC
Sarah Orban – Calgary, AB
Amelia Walsh – Ayr, ON
Nick Wammes – Bothwell, ON

Cambridge, New Zealand (December 8, 2019) – Team Canada had a tremendous outing at the fourth round of the TISSOT UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Cambridge, New Zealand earning four medals. On the final day of competition, Lauriane Genest earned silver in the Keirin and Allison Beveridge took bronze in the Omnium adding to the women’s Team Pursuit bronze medal and Kelsey Mitchell’s silver in the Sprint.

A day after earning a berth in the Sprint quarterfinals for the first time in her career at a World Cup, Genest needed to go through repechage to make it into the second round of the Keirin. She won her heat in the second round to earn a spot in the medal final where she again showed her strength and skill to win silver, her first World Cup medal.

“I’m still learning a lot in the Keirin. You don’t need to be the fastest to be in the big final. I was a bit disappointed with the first round but won repechage with a big gap and also won semis,” Genest said. “I told myself to give everything I had in the final because there wasn’t anything to lose. I have been looking at Kelsey’s success and it looks like it feels good. I am happy we can share it together.”

In the omnium, Beveridge won the tempo race and rode consistently in the scratch, elimination and points race to secure bronze. It was her second medal of the competition having been part of the women’s Team Pursuit bronze medal on Friday.

“Heading in I wasn’t quite sure where I was at. A couple of weeks ago I struggled in Glasgow. It feels good to put together some consistent rides and come away with a bronze medal,” Beveridge said before moving her attention to next week’s World Cup in Australia. “ We keep hoping to build especially in the Team Pursuit in Brisbane so we’ll see what we can do. As much as we love a medal, we are getting a little tired of bronze so we’ll see if we can improve on that.”

The fifth round of the World Cup takes place in Brisbane, Australia from December 13 to 15.

Cambridge, New Zealand (December 6, 2019) – Team Canada had a good start to the fourth round of the TISSOT UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Cambridge, New Zealand. The women’s team pursuit squad won a bronze medal on the opening day of competition while Canada’s men’s team finished in fifth place.

“I think we did a lot of good things in all three rides,” said Georgia Simmerling on the bronze medal performance. “We can take away a lot of positives. The four of us who rode today haven’t ridden at all together till today and those other teams have been riding for months and months together so that’s actually giving us a lot of motivation. We know we have so much more to give and we are ready to do the work.”

Competing together for the first time this season Simmerling, Jasmin Duehring, Annie Foreman-Mackey and Allison Beveridge qualified with the third fastest time and faced Australia in round one. Canada lost to Australia but secured a spot in the bronze medal final against trade team Subway New Zealand. With a strong ride, they secured Canada’s first medal of the competition.

“We are looking at building through the season, running a little hotter into the world championships and making sure we qualify for the Olympics so we are juggling a couple of things,” said team Canada’s head track coach Brendon Cameron.

The men’s team pursuit squad was also in action and qualified with the fourth fastest time. Jay Lamoureux, Derek Gee, Adam Jamieson, Vincent De Haitre and Michael Foley did not move on to the medal round finishing a solid fifth. The World Cup continues on Saturday with Canadians in action in the women’s sprint, men’s Keirin and men’s Omnium.

Milton, ON (November 21, 2019) – Heading into a critical period of Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualification, Cycling Canada is pleased to announce the athletes travelling to compete in the three upcoming back-to-back rounds of the TISSOT UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Hong Kong (November 29-December 1), Cambridge, New Zealand (December 6-8) and Brisbane, Australia (December 13-15).

Canada is sending a strong contingent of endurance and sprint athletes to Rounds 3, 4 and 5 with the aim of securing spots at the Summer Games. After a break over the holidays, the series concludes in the New Year with the TISSOT UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Milton on January 24-26 before the UCI World Championships in Berlin, February 26-March 1.

“The main goal is to maintain and ensure Olympic qualification in our chosen events, we track progress and forecast very closely after each event,” Brendon Cameron, Canada’s Head Track coach said about the teams ambitions. “We highlighted these three world cups some time ago as events we wanted to concentrate on coming in with good form. The athletes will then have a short break before final preparation for the World Championships in Berlin at the end of February.”

Leading Canada’s Women’s Team Pursuit squad in New Zealand and Australia will be Rio bronze medalists Allison Beveridge, Jasmin Duehring and Georgia Simmerling, who will ride alongside Annie Foreman-Mackey and Ariane Bonhomme. Canada’s young Men’s Team Pursuit squad continues to improve as they solidify their Olympic spot and will have teams in all three rounds. Both programs will start riders in the Omnium to aim for a fifth rider quota for the Olympics.

Canada’s sprint team had a fantastic early season highlighted by Kelsey Mitchell’s gold at the Pan Am Games and world record in the 200 m sprint at the Pan Am Championships. She will be travelling to all three rounds, alongside teammates Lauriane Genest, Hugo Barrette, while Nick Wammes and Joel Archambault will be taking part in selected world cups.

(TP – Team Pursuit, OM – Omnium, MAD – Madison, KI – Kilo, SP – Sprint, KE – Keirin)

HONG KONG

Men’s Endurance
Chris Ernst – Kitchener, ON [TP]
Evan Burtnik – Edmonton, AB [TP]
Jay Lamoureux – Victoria, BC [TP]
Aidan Caves – Vancouver, BC [TP]
Derek Gee – Ottawa, ON [TP, OM]

Women’s Endurance
Devaney Collier – Edmonton, AB [OM]

Sprint
Hugo Barrette – Îles-de-la-Madeleine, QC [SP, KE]
Nick Wammes (Team P2M) – Bothwell, ON [SP, KE]
Kelsey Mitchell (Team P2M) – Sherwood Park, AB [SP, KE]
Lauriane Genest – Lévis, QC [SP, KE]

NEW ZEALAND/AUS

Men’s Endurance
Jay Lamoureux – Victoria, BC [TP]
Aidan Caves (Only AUS) – Vancouver, BC [TP]
Derek Gee – Ottawa, ON [TP, OM in AUS]
Adam Jamieson (Only NZL) – Barrie, ON [TP]
Vincent De Haitre – Ottawa, ON [TP]
Michael Foley – Milton, ON [OM in NZL, TP]

Women’s Endurance
Allison Beveridge – Calgary, AB [OM, TP]
Jasmin Duehring – North Vancouver, BC [TP]
Annie Foreman-Mackey – Kingston, ON [TP]
Ariane Bonhomme – Gatineau, QC [TP]
Georgia Simmerling – Vancouver, BC [TP]

Sprint
Hugo Barrette – Îles-de-la-Madeleine, QC [SP, KE]
Joel Archambault (Team P2M) – Sainte-Christine, QC [SP, KE]
Kelsey Mitchell (Team P2M) – Sherwood Park, AB [SP, KE]
Lauriane Genest – Lévis, QC [SP, KE]