{"id":847066,"date":"2026-08-05T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847066\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:26:14","slug":"2026-canadian-masters-road-championships-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847066\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Canadian masters road championships recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 Canadian masters road championships came to a close in Calgary after three days of racing. Several riders were crowned national champions in the time trial, road race and criterium. Held alongside the Tour de Bowness and hosted in partnership with Bow Cycle, the championships attracted riders from across the country.<\/p>\n

The time trials<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s individual time trial opened the weekend. Warren Muir set the fastest time of the day to win the masters men\u2019s 35\u201339 (A) title.<\/p>\n

Nigel Wray topped the 40\u201344 (A) category. Mark Sherboneau, Mark Daws, Bruce Bird, Gary Alexander, Brian Countryman, Bob Simpson and Stew Hutchings also claimed national titles across the remaining men\u2019s age groups.<\/p>\n

Nadia Gontova debuts stunning new national championship kit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In the women\u2019s races, Brittany Mercier won the masters 35\u201339 (A) title ahead of Stephanie Flynn in 40\u201344 (A). Deirdre Maloney, Debra Sluz, Paolina Allan, Dawn Heinemeyer, Margie Ritchie and Gaylene Halter rounded out the list of time trial champions.<\/p>\n

Road races<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s road races featured a slew of tough climbs.
Ritchie, Halter, Allan, Heinemeyer and Maloney all did time trial-road race doubles, while Carolyn Russell, Jodi Wendland and Sin\u00e9ad Tracey earned the remaining women\u2019s titles.
The men\u2019s road race champs were Brian Countryman, Willy Van Sevenant, Pierre L\u2019Ecuyer, Lorenzo Caterini, Bruce Bird, Shannon Hunt, Andrew Conley, Olivier Hamel and Jerome McNicoll.<\/p>\n

The criterium<\/p>\n

The championships wrapped Sunday with criteriums through downtown Calgary.
Olivier Hamel and David Collings won the masters A men\u2019s races, Andrew Conley and Fran\u00e7ois Doyon topped masters B, Eugene Hahn and Greg Cavanagh took masters C. Daniel Blanche, Willy Van Sevenant and Pierre L\u2019Ecuyer won the masters D categories.<\/p>\n

Emma Scott and Stephanie Flynn took the dubs in the women\u2019s masters A criterium titles. Shantel Koenig and Carolyn Russell won masters B, Dawn Heinemeyer claimed masters C and Anna Tykoliz took the masters D crown.<\/p>\n

For full results, head on over to Zone4.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Canadian masters road championships came to a close in Calgary after three days of racing. Several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-847066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}