Cycling takes a back-seat to no one and given the fact that the nice weather is showing it’s face, many local cyclists are enjoying what they have been missing all winter long.

Now we are hearing that Cycling Canada has assembled a small but unique team consisting of four riders that will represent Canada at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships.Pp

The event will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil running from March 22-25 that has seen Canada win seven (7) medals, consisting of four Gold and three Silver, at the 2017 worldPo championships.

The team will include the three athletes who won medals last year; men’s C2 category rider Tristen Chernove (Cranbrook), men’s C1 athlete Ross Wilson (Edmonton) and women’s C4 rider from St-Hubert Marie-Claude Molnar.

Joining them will be NextGen athlete Keely Shaw of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, who will be classified prior to competition.

Both Chernove and Ross will be defending their two world titles in the 1000m Time Trial as well as the Individual Pursuit.

Molnar won three silver medals at the 2017 world championships, in the 500m Time Trial, Individual Pursuit and Scratch Race.

Chernove won silver and bronze medals and Wilson won a silver medal on this same track at the Rio Paralympic Games.

“The Para team is looking forward to going back to the Rio velodrome, where our team lived great experiences at the Paralympics in 2016,” said Sebastien Travers, Para-cycling Head Coach at Cycling Canada. “We are going to these championships to try to maintain our world champion titles, but we are also looking forward to gathering UCI points, as this is the first event on the track to qualify for the Tokyo Paralympics.”

“Our team is looking very good with some of our veterans, but we are also seizing the opportunity to get up-and-coming athletes a first exposure to international classification.”

For more info please contact Cycling Canada at 438 884 8771