May 03, 2019 (Ottawa, ON) – Canada is sending a strong team of athletes to the first two rounds of the UCI Para-Cycling Road World Cup, including two multi-time world champions. In total, eight athletes will participate in the first round on May 9-12, in Corridonia, Italy, with ten taking part in Round 2, a week later in Ostend, Belgium.

These events count towards qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, with riders and nations collecting ranking points that will determine country quotas for the Games.

“We are looking forward to these first road events of the 2019 season,” said Sebastien Travers, Para Head Coach at Cycling Canada. “Italy will be a very interesting course, with key technical features as well as two hills per lap. This will be one of the few courses that is similar to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, so it will be valuable to see how our athletes perform.

“For the Ostend World Cup, the High Performance team will be joined by a multitude of Next Gen athletes, who will try to qualify for the remaining World Cups, Parapan Am Games and/or Road World Championships.”

Racing at each event will begin with the individual time trials for all categories on the first two days, followed by the road races on the final two days.

World Cup #1 – Corridonia, Italy
– Keely Shaw (Women’s C4) – Saskatoon, SK
– Shelley Gautier (Women’s T1) – Toronto, ON
– Kara Douville (Women’s H4) – Calgary, AB
– Tristen Chernove (Men’s C2) – Cranbrook, BC
– Joey Desjardins (Men’s H3) – Hawkesbury, ON
– Alex Hyndman (Men’s H3) – Morpeth, ON
– Charles Moreau (Men’s H3) – Victoriaville, QC
– Mike Sametz (Men’s C3) – Calgary, AB

World Cup #2 – Ostend, Belgium
– Keely Shaw (Women’s C4) – Saskatoon, SK
– Shelley Gautier (Women’s T1) – Toronto, ON
– Annie Bouchard (Women’s Tandem) – Baie-St-Paul, QC
– Evelyne Gagnon (Women’s Tandem Pilot) – Quebec City, QC
– Charles Moreau (Men’s H3) – Victoriaville, QC
– Alex Hyndman (Men’s H3) – Morpeth, ON
– Lowell Taylor (Men’s Tandem) – Lethbridge, AB
– Andrew Davidson (Men’s Tandem Pilot) – Calgary, AB
– Ross Wilson (Men’s C1) – Edmonton, AB
– Tristen Chernove (Men’s C2) – Cranbrook, BC
– Mike Sametz (Men’s C3) – Calgary, AB
– Michael Shetler (Men’s T2) – Montreal, QC