Posted by Editoress on 03/14/19
Two Medals for Canada at Para Track Worlds
Canada opened the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, on Thursday with silver and bronze medals.
Defending men's C2 world champion Tristen Chernove of Cranbrook, BC, had to settle for silver in the Individual Pursuit. Chernove qualified first, but in the medal final finished behind Australian Darren Hicks, who took the gold medal.
"I tried something I hadn't tried before and it didn't work," said Chernove, "so the game plan will have to change for next time. I went out there trying to win the final by catching my opponent in the first kilometre and that didn't work out. It's a well deserved win for Darren Hicks."
In the men's C1 competition, Ross Wilson of Sherwood Park, Alberta, qualified third and maintained that position in the medal final, beating Pierre Senska of Germany for the bronze medal.
"I'm happy to see that my riding has improved," said Wilson, "although the results don't necessarily show my potential and abilities. Unfortunately, I had a bit of a mechanical in the qualifier [and did not make the gold medal race], but I was able to put in a repeated effort [in the bronze medal final] and it was rewarding to finish the race as strong as I did."
In other Canadian results, Marie-Claude Molnar and Keely Shaw both competed in the women's C4 500 metre time trial, finishing 11th and the 12th, respectively.
Marie-Claude Molnar
Keely Shaw
Results from the 1st Day in Apeldoorn, NED
Men C1 - Individual Pursuit | |
Qualifying | |
1 Ricardo Ten Argiles (Spain) | 3:50.051 |
2 Zhangyu Li (China) | 3:54.194 |
3 Ross Wilson (Canada) | 3:54.443 |
4 Pierre Senska (Germany) | 3:55.266 |
5 Weicong Liang (China) | 3:55.282 |
6 Michael Teuber (Germany) | 3:56.697 |
7 Ivan Ermakov (Russia) | 3:59.845 |
8 Erich Winkler (Germany) | 4:00.672 |
9 Darcy Thompson (Australia) | 4:02.319 |
10 Mohamad Yusof Hafizi Shaharuddin (Malaysia) | 4:10.018 |
11 Todd Key (USA) | 4:11.087 |
12 Rodrigo Fernando Lopez (Argentina) | 4:14.627 |
13 Carlos Alberto Gomes Soares (Brazil) | 4:31.793 |
14 Andreas Zirkl (Austria) | 4:37.820 |
15 Damian Lopez Alfonso (Cuba) | 5:16.815 |
Fastest 2 riders race for Gold and Silver, 3th and 4th for race Bronze | |
Final | |
Ride for Gold | |
1 Ricardo Ten Argiles (Spain) | |
2 Zhangyu Li (China) | caught |
Ride for Bronze | |
3 Ross Wilson (Canada) | 3:55.268 |
4 Pierre Senska (Germany) | 3:55.864 |
Men C2 - Individual Pursuit | |
Qualifying | |
1 Tristen Chernove (Canada) | 3:42.249 |
2 Darren Hicks (Australia) | 3:42.709 |
3 Guihua Liang (China) | 3:42.824 |
4 Alejandro Perea (Colombia) | 3:43.109 |
5 Ewoud Vromant (Belgium) | 3:45.704 |
6 Arslan Gilmutdinov (Russia) | 3:48.067 |
7 Ivo Koblasa (Czech Republic) | 3:48.515 |
8 Louis Rolfe (Great Britain) | 3:49.750 |
9 Aaron Keith (USA) | 3:49.789 |
10 Shota Kawamoto (Japan) | 3:49.842 |
11 Alexandre Leaute (France) | 3:50.056 |
12 Matthew Robertson (Great Britain) | 3:50.470 |
13 Maurice Far Eckhard Tio (Spain) | 3:55.694 |
14 Colin Lynch (Ireland) | 3:57.318 |
15 Nikolaos Papangelis (Greece) | 3:59.010 |
16 Chris Burns (Ireland) | 4:01.266 |
17 Roger Bolliger (Switzerland) | 4:05.411 |
18 Telmo Pinao (Portugal) | 4:07.951 |
19 Victor Luise De Oliveira Herling (Brazil) | 4:13.700 |
20 Eduard Mihaita Moescu (Romania) | 4:17.061 |
21 Seulchan Yeom (Korea) | 4:34.893 |
Final | |
Ride for Gold | |
1 Darren Hicks (Australia) | 3:45.390 |
2 Tristen Chernove (Canada) | 3:48.895 |
Ride for Bronze | |
3 Alejandro Perea (Colombia) | 3:39.101 |
4 Guihua Liang (China) | 3:46.599 |
Women C4 500 TT | |
1 Kadeena Cox (Great Britain) | 36.176 |
2 Jianping Ruan (China) | 38.436 |
3 Katherine Horan (New Zealand) | 39.846 |
4 Emily Petricola (Australia) | 39.991 |
5 Elena Galkina (Russia) | 40.516 |
6 Nikita Howarth (New Zealand) | 40.903 |
7 Anna Grace Taylor (New Zealand) | 41.282 |
8 Meg Lemon (Australia) | 42.150 |
9 Katell Alencon (France) | 42.198 |
10 Anna Tikhonova (Russia) | 42.329 |
11 Marie-Claude Molnar (Canada) | 42.922 |
12 Keely Shaw (Canada) | 44.016 |
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