2016 Canadian championship individual time trial startlist
Hugo Houle and Karol-Anne Canuel defend their national TT titles in Gatineau park
Canada crowned nine Canadian national road champions over the weekend including Bruno Langlois and Annie Foreman-Mackey as the elite champions. On Tuesday June 28 a challenging time trial in Gatineau Park will determine who will wear skinsuits with the red maple leaf for the next year. Racing through Gatineau Park for national titles will be the elite and U23 men, the elite and U23 women, junior men and women, and Canada’s top paracycling athletes.
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Elite and U23 women’s 26-km timetrial course
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Defending elite champions Hugo Houle and Karol-Ann Canuel are both step to take the start. As likely participants in the upcoming Olympic games, the challenging course will put their preparations for Rio to the test. Also on the startline will be home today favourite Michael Woods who knows Gatineau Park like the back of his hand. He is returning to racing from a wrist injury that has kept him out of competition since April’s Liège – Bastogne – Liège. Svein Tuft has been Canadian time trial champion on nine occasions and can never be counted out.
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Elite and U23 men’s time trial course
Jasmin Glaesser of Rally Cycling and the elite national track program will take the start and is headed to the Rio Olympics in August. She earned her first UCI win at the Tour of the Gila in May and after Foreman-Mackey soloed to the road championship title it confirmed that track riders are often strong on the road. Tara Whitten was fourth in the world championships TT in 2011 the same year she was also national champion. Whitten finished second at the Chrono Gatineau and again is a strong contender. Canuel was third at the Chrono Gatineau and is building her form for the Olympics, she is a good climber and lives in Gatineau so is familiar with the roads.
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The racing gets underway at 8:01am EDT, Canuel is the last elite women’s starter at 12:20pm and Hugo Houle is the days last start and will defend his title at 1:40pm.
