Cycling Canada is pleased to release the 2017 national calendar for all competition disciplines – Road, Mountain Bike, Track, Cyclo-cross, BMX and Para-cycling.
“We are pleased to release the 2017 Cycling Canada calendar,” said Mathieu Boucher, Director of Performance Development. “Once again, our athletes will benefit from a variety of high level events across all cycling disciplines. We want to thank all of our organizers and the host cities for enabling us to provide quality events to support the growth and the development of our athletes.”
In addition to regular competitions on the calendar, 2017 will see young athletes from across Canada travel to Winnipeg, Manitoba, for the Canada Summer Games in late July and early August. Canadian stars such as Raphael Gagne, Annie Foreman-Mackey, Brian Walton, Leah Kirchmann, Hugo Houle and Guillaume Boivin all competed at the Summer Games before going on to international prominence.
National Track competition will begin in February with the Eastern and Western Track Challenges, culminating with the U17/Junior/Para National Championships at the end of March. [Note: Dates for the National Track Championships (Elite/Masters), and the potential UCI World Cup have not been announced, pending date selection by the UCI.]
The Mountain Bike season begins, for the second year, in Victoria, BC, with the Bear Mountain Canada Cup XCO event. Canada Cup action for both the XCO and DHI disciplines continue through the season across Canada, including Quebec, Ontario and BC. In July, national championships will take place in BC, Quebec and Alberta. For the 26th year, Mont-Ste-Anne, Quebec, will play host to the World Cup for both XCO and DHI.
The national Road season begins in May with the internationally sanctioned Chrono de Gatineau and GP Cycliste Gatineau. In June, the back-to-back GP Cycliste de Saguenay and Tour de Beauce take place, as well as the Grey County Road Race. At the end of the month, Road Nationals return to Gatineau for Elite/Junior/Para, while Masters will contest their titles in Vancouver. July brings the BC Superweek and Tour de l’Abitibi, while the end of August and early September will see some of the top riders in the world attend the Tour of Alberta and GP Cyclistes de Quebec and Montreal.
The first six rounds of the Canada Cup for BMX will take place in BC in May, Ontario in July, and Alberta in August, followed by the national championships and the final round of the Canada Cup in late August.
In addition to national Road and Track championships, Para athletes compete in Montreal at the end of April, at the Defi sportif AlterGo.
The national season will conclude in October with the UCI sanctioned Silver Goose Cyclo-cross in Midland, Ontario, and the national championships in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Links to national calendars, by discipline:
Track
Mountain Bike
Para
Road
BMX
Cyclo-cross