Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France (October 13, 2022) – Dylan Bibic claimed the rainbow jersey in the men’s Scratch race on the second day of racing at the Track World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. At just nineteen, the endurance rider would claim Canada’s first medal of the Championship week, while being the first Canadian in history to win gold in the event.

“It’s very exciting, I still can’t believe it I’m so proud of myself,” Bibic told the UCI in an interview after his race. “My sprint (is my strenght), I know it is comparable to sprinters, so I relied on that during the race […] My goal is to place well in the Omnium and in the Madison, which are both Olympics events, to secure a place in the upcoming Olympics.”

Bibic was part of the lead in the bunch with 10 laps to go race where he gained control on the last lap, sprinting to the line and edging out Japan’s Kazushige Kuboki and Roy Eefting from the Netherlands to secure the top of the podium. The 2022 Championship marks the first Elite Championships for the Mississauga, Ontario native making a remarkable debut which showcased his depth as an athlete. Bibic first turned heads after winning the Junior World Championship title in 2021 where he won the Points Race in Cairo, Egypt. The endurance athlete will take on Madison, Elimination and Omnium next.

Canadians still have three more days of racing at the Vélodrome National de St-Quentin-en-Yvelines which will play host to the Paris 2024 Games. Live streaming of races can be found FloBikes and live results and start lists can be found on the UCI website.

Ottawa, ON (October 7, 2022) – Coming off strong performances at the Commonwealth Games and at the Track Pan Am Championship, 18 Sprint and Endurance athletes are heading to Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France for the 2022 UCI Track World Championships on October 12 – 16. Canada was one of only two nations who qualified to compete in every event this year’s Worlds. The team is comprised of both veterans and rookies to World Championship racing and are ready to take on the best athletes on the track.

Veterans to the team include Sprinter, Kelsey Mitchell, who has seen great success this season at the Commonwealth Games as well as Pan Ams. The Alberta native is looking to better her performances from 2021, after winning her first career World Championship medal in the women’s Sprint where she took home bronze. She will be joined by Lauriane Genest and Sarah Orban, who were part of the Team Sprint squad that won bronze at the Commonwealth Games. The trio hope to use their momentum from this year and add another international podium finish to their racing resumes. Olympian, Nick Wammes and Canadian Champion, Ryan Dodyk, will be at the helm of the men’s Sprint squad as they make their second return to World Championship racing, with James Hedgcock and Tyler Rorke making their Worlds debut.

” I’m looking forward to racing on the track that will host the 2024 Olympics and excited to see where my legs are at,” said Olympic Champion Kelsey Mitchell. “I have never been a World Champion, so that is definitely something I am looking to achieve as well as trying to lead the younger squad we have going to worlds this year. Crazy to think that at my first Worlds in 2020, we only had 3 sprinters there, this time we will have 8. It’s great, the program continues to grow and be competitive on the international stage. Should be a great competition.”

On the men’s endurance side, the team will be comprised of 6 athletes, with 5 racing at their first Elite World Championships including Carson Mattern who has had a spectacular track season so far winning two rainbow jerseys at the Junior Track World Championships in Israel.  He’ll be joined in the Team Pursuit by Evan Burtnik, Chris Ernst, Mathias Guillemette and Sean Richardson. Mattern will then go on to race in the Individual Pursuit alongside Ernst. 2021 Junior Track World Champion Dylan Bibic is slated to compete in the Elimination, Omnium and Scratch race, as well as the Madison, alongside Guillemette who will also contend in the Points race.

“I’m very excited to have the opportunity to gain some experience at the highest level there is in track cycling,” said Mattern. “It’s been great to learn from the Elite squad over the past month and I look forward to continuing to grow as a rider in the programme.”

Coming off her first Commonwealth Games where she won a bronze in the women’s Scratch race, Maggie Coles-Lyster is looking for another international podium finish as she makes her second appearance at Track World Championships. She will have a full schedule and is set to race in the Team Pursuit, Omnium, Points Race and Scratch race. Joining her are Erin Atwell and Sarah van Dam who will be part of the quartet in the women’s Team Pursuit alongside Ruby West, who will make her inaugural World Championships team. Coles-Lyster and van Dam will team up in the Madison, with van Dam also competing in the Elimination. West and van Dam will contend in Individual pursuit.

The event will be livestreamed on Flobikes and full results will be available here throughout the five days of competition.

Women’s Endurance
Erin Atwell (Team Pursuit) – Victoria, BC
Maggie Coles-Lyster (Team Pursuit, Madison, Omnium, Points Race, Scratch Race) – Maple Ridge, BC
Sarah Van Dam (Team Pursuit, Individual Pursuit, Madison, Elimination) – Victoria, BC
Ruby West (Team Pursuit, Individual Pursuit) – Dundas, ON

Women’s Sprint
Jackie Boyle (Keirin) – Oakville, ON
Lauriane Genest (Team Sprint, Sprint, Keirin) – Levis, QC
Kelsey Mitchell (Team Sprint, Sprint, Keirin, Time Trial) – Sherwood Park, AB
Sarah Orban (Team Sprint, Sprint, Time Trial)  –Calgary, AB

Men’s Endurance
Dylan Bibic (Team Pursuit, Madison, Elimination, Omnium, Scratch Race) – Mississauga, ON
Evan Burtnik (Team Pursuit) – Edmonton, AB
Chris Ernst (Team Pursuit, Individual Pursuit) – Kitchener, ON
Mathias Guillemette (Team Pursuit, Madison, Points Race) – Trois-Rivières, QC
Carson Mattern (Team Pursuit, Individual Pursuit) – Ancaster, ON
Sean Richardson (Team Pursuit) – Vancouver, BC

Men’s Sprint
Ryan Dodyk (Team Sprint, Sprint, Time Trial) – Sherwood Park, AB
James Hedgcock (Keirin, TimeTrial) – Ancaster, ON
Tyler Rorke (Team Sprint) – Baden, ON
Nick Wammes (Team Sprint, Sprint) – Bothwell, ON

Ottawa, ON (August 30, 2022) – Athletes from across Canada are gearing up for the 2022 Canadian Track Championships on September 1-3 at the Mattamy Cycling Centre in Milton, ON. Elite, Para and Masters riders will take part in the three days of racing, with Elites and Masters coming back to compete for the Canadian Champion title for the first time since 2019.

“It has been an exciting event season and we are looking forward to hosting athletes back in Milton for another Track Championship weekend,” said Jolène Dupuis, Manager of Events and Officials at Cycling Canada. “Both Elite and Masters athletes have not had the opportunity to race for the maple leaf jersey in three years, so we are excited to witness them back in action with even more fast racing on the heals of Track Nations Cup that happened earlier this spring.”

Not only will Elites like Olympic Champion Kelsey Mitchell and Tokyo Olympians, Ariane Bonhomme & Michael Foley be back on the track, but also former and current Junior World Champions, Dylan Bibic & Carson Mattern and Paralympic medallists, Kate O’Brien & Keely Shaw will also be on the hunt for the top of the podium and the title of 2022 Canadian Track Champion in their respective categories.

“I’ve been super fortunate to have some success on the road this year, but in the last two years I’ve really been trained as a track cyclist,” said Shaw. “I’m super excited to be back in Milton for nationals this weekend and interested in seeing what a season of road racing has done for my track events. Milton has become something of a home away from home for me. I can’t wait to be back at the velodrome in a race environment and see the fruits of everyone’s labour as the best track cyclists in Canada get together to race for the maple leaf.”

Athletes will take on individual, team, sprint and endurance events over the three days of racing all competing for the coveted maple leaf jersey. The full technical guide which includes schedule and important event information can be found on the Events page of our website.

Tel Aviv, Israel (August 25, 2022) – On the third day of racing at the Junior Track World Championships in Tel Aviv, Junior endurance rider, Carson Mattern, would win Canada’s first medal of the Championship week in the men’s Individual Pursuit to win his second individual World Champion title.

“It was obviously a really hard final,” said Mattern. “The qualifying was really tight, and I like the fact that I had to lead in the qualifying, which gave me some confidence. I knew that there were some strong competitors. When I saw an opening to strike, I just accelerated the last couple laps and that’s all I needed. I’m very excited, two World Champion wins in two World Championships. It’s another one I can put on the wall, and I can’t wait.”

With a time of 3:10.889 Mattern edged out second place finisher, Theodor Storm of Denmark by just 0.151 seconds, securing his place on the top of the podium. The gold in the Individual Pursuit would mark the Ancaster, Ontario native’s third World Championship medal after winning the men’s Scratch Race and taking bronze in the Madison alongside teammate, Dylan Bibic, at the 2021 Junior Track World Championship in Cairo, Egypt.

Canadians still have one more day of racing at the Sylvan Adams National Velodrome featuring the Omnium for the men and the 500-metre Time Trial and Individual Pursuit on the women’s side. Live streaming of races can be found here and live results and start lists can be found here.

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.