Cycling Canada is pleased to announce the roster of new and returning athletes who will compete for the NextGen Men’s Track Endurance program and Team RaceClean in 2017.
The NextGen Men’s Track Endurance program was launched in 2014 with the goal of being medal contenders in the men’s team pursuit at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
The team remains firmly on target to achieve that goal after a 2016 track season that included the first-ever sub-4 minute time at the Pan American Track Championships, a top-10 World Cup result and a 12th-place finish at the 2016 UCI Track World Championships.
The foundation for this success has been in selecting an MTE group that trains and competes together throughout the year.
For 2016, the program stepped up to the next level by bringing together 10 riders to train and compete as a 
Cycling Canada trade team for the entire upcoming season for cycling.
On the road, competing as Team RaceClean, the squad achieved multiple top-5 and top-10 results at internationally sanctioned European competitions.
This includes wins at Fleche du Sud (Luxembourg), Tour de La Manche (France) and the overall title at Ronde van Oost Vlaanderen (Belgium).
Domestically, a member of Team RaceClean became Canadian champion in the Under-23 Men’s Individual Time Trial.
In addition members of the Team were selected to represent Canada at the Road World Championships, in Doha, Qatar, which for all is exciting to be a huge part of.
For the 2017 season, the NextGenMTE program received many strong applications from riders across Canada. We are proud to announce our selected riders for the 2017 season.
Returning riders:
- Willem Boersma – Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
- Evan Burtnik – Edmonton, Alberta
- Aidan Caves – Vancouver, British Columbia
- William Elliott – Barrie, Ontario
- Jay Lamoureux – Victoria, British Columbia
- Bayley Simpson – Lindsay, Ontario
- Edward Walsh – Halifax, Nova Scotia
New riders:
- Derek Gee – Ottawa, Ontario
- Thierry Kirouac-Marcassa – Boucherville, Quebec
- John Willcox – Victoria, British Columbia
- Staff:
- Luc Arseneau – National Road Development Coach
- Ian Melvin – NextGen MTE Coach
- Emily Wood – Physiologist
It’s unfortunate that we are losing three riders (Alec Cowan, Sean MacKinnon, and Adam Jamieson) next season for other opportunities and we wish them the best of luck.
We are very happy with their progression and we are very proud to be able to continue counting on the talents
of MacKinnon and Jamieson for our track program as we begin the next Olympic cycle.
The goal for next season and the goal of the NextGenMTE program will be the Track World Cup series.
This will begin (next week) in Glasgow, Scotland and we are pleased that the team set a new Canadian record of 3:59.931 in Aguascalientes, Mexico, earlier this month.
Beginning next spring immediately following the track season, the NextGenMTE group will again attack the European road racing circuit in Team RaceClean colors.
Thanks to Cycling Canada for the info.
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