March 20/15 19:30 pm - Cycling Canada Announces Para Track Worlds Team

Posted by Editoress on 03/20/15
 

Five of Canada's best track para-cyclists will race at the 2015 UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships on March 26-29, at the indoor velodrome in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

The Canadian team will consist of Jaye Milley (Calgary, AB), Marie-Claude Molnar (Longueuil, QC), Brayden McDougall (Calgary, AB), Ross Wilson (Edmonton, AB) and Michael Sametz (Calgary, AB).

Brayden McDougall

Jaye Milley

Marie Claude Molnar

At the Track Cycling World Championships, the team hopes to secure podium performances and top-10 results that will help Canadian athletes accumulate qualification points for the track cycling events at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games.

"We're excited about this event, as it will give us the opportunity to see the progress made by our para-cyclists in actual competition settings. This will allow us to observe the international growth of the sport and where we stand, and take decisions as to what needs to be done to win medals in Rio," said Jacques Landry, Director of High Performance and Head Coach at Cycling Canada. "We have a great support structure in place for these para-cyclists, with Eric Van den Eynde leading the team. We are confident that the work invested heading to these World Championships will bear it fruit."

Coaches and managers will also use this opportunity to observe and assess the athletes' competitiveness on the international scene 18 months away from the Paralympic Games.

The team prepared for this event by attending a road training camp in Gainesville, Florida, prior to transferring to a track-specific training block that ended Thursday, at the new Cisco Milton Pan Am/Parapan Am Velodrome in Milton, Ontario.

At the 2014 UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships in Mexico, Milley secured two bronze medals, in the Kilo time trial and the Individual Pursuit.

Cycling Canada press release