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Good start for Canada on brief first night of LA track World Cup

Canadian women's team pursuit squad posts third best qualifying time, fourth for team sprint duo

February 25, 2017
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A short program on Friday’s opening night of the season’s final UCI track cycling World Cup saw Canadians race all three qualifying events, with the steady women’s team pursuit outfit and the women’s team pursuit duo moving on to Saturday’s first round.

One of the stories of the night, and possibly of the entire final round of the World Cup, regarded Team Australia and a few other squads arriving without their bikes and other equipment from last week’s round Colombia. Most notably, the women’s team pursuit gold medalists of Cali, Australia, were unable to compete.


Other Aussie athletes were able to train on machines provided by Canada and New Zealand.


Cycling Canada was just showing the love.


There were only three events on Friday evening: the men’s and women’s team sprint qualifying and the women’s team pursuit qualifying.

Matched up against Mexico, Kate O’Brien and Amelia Walsh had another fine qualifying round in the women’s team sprint, coming fourth with a time of 34.093 over 200-metres. They face China on Saturday in the first round.

The men’s team sprint outfit didn’t have as much luck, placing 10th with a time of 45.451 over three laps. Hugo Barrette, Patrice Piven and Stefan Ritter had to make the top-8 to carry on to the first round.

The Canadian women’s team pursuit quartet was a little different from last week in Cali, with Jasmin Duehring (née Glaesser) and Kristi Lay in for Ariane Bonhomme and Kinley Gibson. Nevertheless, the result was nearly the same, with the team taking third place after stopping the clock at 4:25.651. Canada faces New Zealand in Saturday’s first round.