August 1/19 13:33 pm - Canadian Track Team Has Strong Opening Session in Lima
Posted by Editoress on 08/1/19
Canada had a strong start on the track at the Pan American Games, with both the women's Team Pursuit and Team Sprint squads qualifying second.
For the Team Sprint duo of Amelia Walsh and Kelsey Mitchell, their time of 34.189 was second to Mexico's 33.759, putting them in the Gold medal final against the Mexican's. Colombia and Argentina will ride for bronze.
The Team Pursuit squad of Erin Attwell, Miriam Brouwer, Maggie Coles-Lyster and Laurie Jussaume had a time of 4:29.145, 0.959 seconds behind the USA. Canada will go up against Mexico in the next round this evening, but the Mexicans were over eight and a half seconds slower than Canada, so it more than likely by Canada versus the USA for Gold on Friday
| Women Team Pursuit | |
| Qualifying | |
| 1 United States (Christina Birch/Chloe Dygert/Kimberly Geist/Lily Williams) | 4:28.186 |
| 2 Canada (Maggie Coles-Lyster/Erin Attwell/Miriam Brouwer/Laurie Jussaume) | 4:29.145 |
| 3 Mexico (L Salazar Vazquez/S Arreola Navarro/J Bonilla Escapite/Y Verdugo Osuna) | 4:37.879 |
| 4 Colombia (L Hernandez Gomez/Jessica Parra Rojas/L Rojas Zapata/ Salcedo Zambrano) | 4:39.523 |
| 5 Chile (A Villalón Sánchez/ Ahumada Riquelme/R. V Martínez/P Villalón Sánchez) | 4:46.776 |
| 6 Cuba (Cervante Trujillo/Iraida García Ocasio/ González Valdivie/J Pradera Bernal) | 4:51.742 |
| 7 Ecuador (D Aguilar Garcia/A Herrera Teran/M Nuñez Padilla/Leslye Ojeda Rivera) | 5:04.460 |
| 8 Peru (B. A Paulett/R. C Dávila/L Fernández Quispe/I. R Medrano) | 5:09.577 |
| First Round: The 6th fastest team against the 7th fastest team. The 5th fastest team against the 8th fastest team. The 2nd fastest team against the 3rd fastest team. The fastest team against the 4th fastest team. |
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| First Round | |
| Heat 1 | |
| 1 Cuba (Cervante Trujillo/Iraida García Ocasio/ González Valdivie/J Pradera Bernal) | 4:47.309 |
| 2 Ecuador (D Aguilar Garcia/A Herrera Teran/M Nuñez Padilla/Leslye Ojeda Rivera) | 4:58.333 |
| Heat 2 | |
| 1 Chile (A Villalón Sánchez/ Ahumada Riquelme/R. V Martínez/P Villalón Sánchez) | 4:46.886 |
| 2 Peru (B. A Paulett/R. C Dávila/L Fernández Quispe/I. R Medrano) | 5:11.653 |
| Heat 3 | |
| 1 Canada (Maggie Coles-Lyster/Erin Attwell/Miriam Brouwer/Laurie Jussaume) | 4:29.145 |
| 2 Mexico (L Salazar Vazquez/S Arreola Navarro/J Bonilla Escapite/Y Verdugo Osuna) | 4:36.673 |
| Heat 4 | |
| 1 United States (Christina Birch/Chloe Dygert/Kimberly Geist/Lily Williams) | 4:28.186 |
| 2 Colombia (L Hernandez Gomez/Jessica Parra Rojas/L Rojas Zapata/ Salcedo Zambrano) | 4:40.046 |
| The winners of heats 3 and 4 in the First Round ride the final for the gold and silver medals. The remaining six teams will be ranked by their times in the First round and will be paired as follows: The two fastest teams ride the final for the bronze medal. |
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| Women Team Sprint | |
| Qualifying | |
| 1 Mexico (L Gaxiola Gonzalez/Jessica Salazar Valles) | 33.759 |
| 2 Canada (Kelsey Mitchell /Amelia Walsh) | 34.189 |
| 3 Colombia (Martha Bayona Pineda/Juliana Gaviria Rendon) | 34.437 |
| 4 Argentina (Mariana Diaz/Natalia Andrea Vera) | 36.609 |
| 5 Ecuador (K Cargua Sevilla/GH Lozano Tarira) | 37.482 |
| 6 Peru (G Bendezu Flores/E Valdivia Vilchez) | 38.83 |
| Fastest 2 teams race for the gold and silver, 3rd and 4th teams race for the bronze medal |
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| Final | |
| Ride for Gold | |
| 1 Mexico (L Gaxiola Gonzalez/Jessica Salazar Valles) | 33.424 PR |
| 2 Canada (Kelsey Mitchell /Amelia Walsh) | 34.096 |
| Ride for Bronze | |
| 3 Colombia (Martha Bayona Pineda/Juliana Gaviria Rendon) | 34.313 |
| 4 Argentina (Mariana Diaz/Natalia Andrea Vera) | 35.983 |
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