May 11, 2019 (Corridonia, Italy) – Canada added gold and silver medals on Friday bringing its tally to four medals at the opening round of the UCI Para Road World Cup in Corridonia, Italy.

World champion Shelley Gautier of Toronto won the 8.9 kilometre women’s T1 category time trial with a time of 29 minutes and 32 seconds, while Tristen Chernove of Cranbrook, BC, took silver in the 18 kilometre men’s C2 race, only 3.84 seconds behind Arslan Gilmutdinov of Russia.

Michael Sametz was Canada’s only other competitor on Friday in the men’s C3 race, and did not finish after crashing. After two days of competition, Canada has one gold, two silver and one bronze medal.

“It was a fabulous day, Italy always knows how to put on a great para-cycling event,” said Chernove. “The mood of the whole team has been right on target for great results. I had a little mechanical episode on the cobbles, but was really happy to still manage a silver, just three seconds behind. I’m looking forward to the road race on Sunday.”