Canada's Olympic-medal winning women's endurance squad will be at the third round of the TISSOT UCI Track Cycling World Cup set to take place at the Mattamy Cycling Centre in Milton, Ontario, from December 1-3.
The focus will be on the team pursuit, where Canada has won bronze medals in the past two Olympics. The squad will be anchored by Olympian Allison Beveridge, who will also race the Omnium. Jasmin Duehring, who won a silver medal in the Points Race at the last World Championships, will compete in that event at Milton, as well as the Madison with teammate Steph Roorda.
"This is an exciting time for our program," said Craig Griffin, Women's Track Endurance Coach. "We are fortunate enough to have seven athletes getting ready for the World Championships and Commonwealth Games, so in the process we have seven athletes who can ride the four events at the World Cup here in Milton. We will have six athletes ready to ride in the Team Pursuit, and hopefully have the opportunity to have them ride in the different rounds of the competition, in different combinations."
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The Milton World Cup marks a return to the top level for Beveridge, who was off the bike for five months after surgery in January to correct a lingering injury she suffered in the 2016 Hong Kong World Cup. She missed the world championships in April but was back on form in October for Canadian nationals,where she took three titles.
"It was a significant process that had a lot of ups and downs along the way. A couple of people told me I wasn't going to be able to come back and race again," Beveridge told the Canadian Broadcasting Company for an article published this week.
Other riders on the team include Amelia Walsh, who will compete in all three sprint events - Sprint, Keirin and Team Sprint; she will be joined by newcomer Tegan Cochrane for the latter competition.
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