September 15, 2009 (Bogogno, Italy) – Réal Labbé of Quebec City will head home with a complete medal set from the world championships in Para-cycling for riders with a disability which concluded on Sunday. Labbé, who races in the hand cycling events, took gold this week in the individual time trial, the silver in the road race and the bronze with Mark Beggs of Montreal and Rico Morneau of Ste-Martine, Que., in the hand cycling relay race.

Marie-Claude Molnar of Greenfield Park, Que., collected two bronze medals placing third in both the women’s 48 kilometre road race and the individual time trial.

Canada’s other medal was earned by Daniel Chalifour of Lac-des- Écorces, Que., and his guide Alexandre Cloutier of Ste-Antoine-de-Tilly, Que., in the individual time trial for the visually impaired.

Other time trial results for Canadians this week were:

– seventh for Jean Quévillon of Ste-Adèle, Que.,
– eighth for Éric Bourgault of Orford, Que.,
– ninth places for Morneau, Mathieu Parent of Granby, Que., Brayden MacDougall of Calgary
-12th for Geneviève Ouellet of Amos, Que., and her guide Mathilde Hupin-Debeurme of Chateauguay, Que., as well as Beggs,
– 13th for Arnold Boldt of Saskatoon
– 19th for Mark Breton of Quebec City
– 23rd for Stéphane Côté of Quebec City and his guide Pierre-Olivier Boily of Sherbrooke, Que.

Other road race results were:

– fourth for Chalifour and Cloutier,
– sixth for Ouellet and Hupin-Debeurme,
– eighth for Parent,
– ninth for Boldt and Bourgault
– 16th for Breton
– 18th for Côté and Boily