Cycling Canada – Brisbane, Australia (December 16, 2019)Canada won two medals at the fifth round of the UCI Track World Cup in Brisbane, Australia. The women’s Team Pursuit secured their second bronze medal in as many weeks while Allison Beveridge won a silver medal in the Omnium having taken a bronze last weekend in Cambridge, New Zealand. The race concludes a three World Cup block for the Canada program over which a total of seven medals were earned in Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia.
On their way to bronze, the women’s Team Pursuit qualified fourth behind New Zealand, Australia and the U.S. and moved to the bronze medal final in a head-to-head against the Americans. The Canadians squad of Beveridge, Georgia Simmerling, Jasmin Duehring, Annie Foreman-Mackey and Ariane Bonhomme rode well to secure their second consecutive medal at a World Cup defeating the U.S. team.