{"id":93650,"date":"2025-08-24T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93650\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T13:58:07","slug":"alexandra-fangeat-takes-bronze-at-junior-track-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93650\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Fangeat takes bronze at junior track worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great day for Alexandra Fangeat of St. Thomas, Ont.! She took bronze in the women\u2019s junior points race at the 2025 UCI junior track world championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Fangeat was steady and tactical across the 80-lap event. She scored points in multiple sprints and held her position through a fast, strategic final. Her ride earned her Canada\u2019s first endurance medal of the championships.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old has already had a standout season. She won eight medals at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/alex-fangeat-on-her-world-pursuit-record-wasnt-part-of-the-plan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian junior track championships<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>She also broke the world record in individual pursuit at the nationals, just minutes after her fellow Ontarian Eve Buczkowski did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/planes-trains-and-automobiles-and-bikes-juniors-stranded-on-way-to-world-champs-following-air-canada-strike\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Planes, trains and automobiles (and bikes): Juniors stranded on way to world champs following Air Canada strike<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Fangeat and Buczkowski had a helluva time making it to the worlds, however. The Air Canada strike threw a wrench into their plans. It ended up taking two days of crazy travel to make it there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A great day for Alexandra Fangeat of St. Thomas, Ont.! She took bronze in the women\u2019s junior points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-93650","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\/93650","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=93650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}