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Canada’s Zach Bell wins silver at track cycling World Cup
OTTAWA – Zach Bell of Watson Lake, Yukon returned to Beijing for the second time in less than a year and won the silver medal in the men’s points race this past weekend at a track cycling World Cup competition.
Bell (personal coach: Richard Wooles), a Canadian Olympic team member last summer, finished second to Chris Newton of Britain. Newton tabulated 35 points, followed by Bell at 20 and Rafal Ratajczyk of Poland in third place at 19.
‘’Zach continued to show he has a bright future,’’ said Jacques Landry, chief technical officer for the Canadian Cycling Association. ‘’He’s gaining more and more experience in regards to tactics in the track events like the points race. The more he races these events the better he’ll get.’’
Canada also posted three more top-10 results on the weekend. Bell took seventh spot in the scratch race, Travis Smith (personal coach: Jamie Staff) of Calgary came through the repechage for fifth in the men’s Keirin and Monique Sullivan of Calgary (personal coach: Tanya Dubnicoff) won the consolation quarterfinals, semifinals and final to place ninth overall in the women’s sprint.
Richard Wooles, head coach of the Canadian national track team, held very successful and popular selection and talent identification camps over the winter and Landry is excited about Canada’s future on the track.
‘’It shows we’re well aligned with reaching our goals for the track team in 2012,’’ said Landry. ‘’We’re putting a lot more emphasis on the track events and it’s starting to pay off with medal performances at the international level.’’
It’s a busy winter for Canada’s top track cyclists. Besides this past weekend’s races in Beijing, there is another World Cup set for Copenhagen, Denmark February 13-15 then the world championships March 25-29 in Pruskow, Poland.
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For more information
Jacques Landry
Chief Technical Officer
Canadian Cycling Association
Tel: (613) 248-1353 ext. 2603
E-mail: jacques.landry@canadian-cycling.com
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