The Canadian Cycling Hall of Fame will welcome six new members this fall, recognizing decades of contributions to the sport from athletes, coaches, organizers and innovators.

Cycling Canada announced Monday that the 2026 induction class includes builders Serge Arsenault, the late Antoine Bedwani, Pierre Hutsebaut and Giuseppe Marinoni, along with athletes Marie-Claude Molnar and Ivan Waddell.

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The induction ceremony and dinner will be held Sept. 23 at the headquarters of Argon 18 in Montreal.
The Canadian Cycling Hall of Fame was created back in 2015. With this year’s nominees, the Hall will grow to 53 members. That includes 36 athletes and 17 builders.

Serge Arsenault

Arsenault is being recognized for helping establish the Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec et de Montreal, Canada’s only UCI WorldTour races. His work in bringing the events to the international calendar elevated Canada’s profile in professional road cycling and helped secure WorldTour racing in North America. The Grands Prixs are now in their 14th year.

Antoine Bedwani

Bedwani spent more than three decades developing young riders in Québec. A co-founder of the Espoirs de Laval cycling club in 1968, he mentored generations of athletes while also serving in leadership roles with the provincial federation. All sorts of well-known Canadian cyclists grew up through the club: Roland Green, Peter Wedge, Geneviève Jeanson Czesław Łukaszewicz, Joëlle Numainville and Dominique Rollin, just to name a few. Bedwani, who was born in Egypt, died in 2003.

Pierre Hutsebaut

Hutsebaut’s influence stretches from coaching to high-performance sport. After organizing the road races for the 1976 Montréal Olympic Games, he went on to help shape the Canadian Cycling Association’s, (now Cycling Canada) national coaching system. He also established national training centres and integrated para-cycling into the country’s high-performance program. He also played a key role in organizing the 2003 road worlds in Hamilton–the last time the event took place here. The other time of course was 1974–also in Montreal.

Giuseepe Marinoni

If you know Canadian bikes, you know the name Marinoni. After immigrating from Italy in the 1960s, he became one of Québec’s top road racers before turning his attention to building custom steel bicycles. His handmade frames have been ridden by generations of Canadian cyclists. His story was even chronicled in the award-winning documentary Marinoni: The Fire in the Frame.

Marie-Claude Molnar

Among the athlete inductees is Molnar. She is one of Canada’s most successful para-cyclists. A two-time Paralympian, she won bronze at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Molnar also won multiple world championship medals, including two road world titles in 2021. Through her long career she’s snagged all kinds of national championships and UCI victories.

Ivan Wadell

Ivan Waddell represented Canada at the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games, competing in both the road race and team time trial.

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Following his racing career, he remained heavily involved in the sport as a national team manager and as president of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Beauce. He also rode for the first real pro team in Canada, Evian Miko.

The six inductees will officially be welcomed into the Hall of Fame during the Montreal ceremony in September.