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Silver medal, Canadian record for Zach Bell

Westy — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:58:50 +0000

As Team SpiderTech powered by C10 unveiled its 2012 roster in Toronto Friday, one rider was absent: Zach Bell.

Bell was in Cali, Colombia, competing as a member of the Canadian national team in the second round of the UCI Track World Cup.

After skipping the first round, Bell was using the Cali event to gauge his progress towards his target event, the 2012 Olympics in London in August.

And progress looks good: In Cali Bell set a new Canadian individual pursuit record of 4:27.686 and personal bests in all the timed events on the way to capturing a silver medal in the event.

Bell is now returning to the Los Angeles region to continue his preparation.

Click here for the full results from Cali.

Click here to read an article about Bell’s track season.

SpiderTech ends season with a bang at Univest GP

Westy — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:13:27 +0000

Ryan Roth takes win, Francois Parisien wins King of the Mountain and Most Aggressive rider, and Team wins Team classification

(Souderton, PA, USA – September 17, 2011) Team SpiderTech concluded its 2011 campaign with a bang at the Univest Grand Prix in Pennsylvania, with Ryan Roth of Cambridge, Ont., winning the 160-kilometre race in a three-men sprint finish to the line. In addition of the victory, teammate Francois Parisien won the King of the Mountain jersey, as well as the most aggressive rider prize.

Ryan Roth, who just raced the two World Tour races in Canada last weekend and who finished second at Univest in 2007, took the victory crossing the line with a time of 3:52:25.

“I was nervous about (Frank) Pipp (Bissell Pro Cycling). He’s a fast sprinter and I didn’t want to have to go to the line with him. I tried to attack him on the last climb — the feedzone hill. But I couldn’t get away. When (Tom) Zirbel (Jamis/Sutter Home) caught us on the KOM hill inside the final kilometer, that was good for me. It took Frank’s focus off me a bit. The extra confusion helped me figure out the sprint. Zirbel just came straight through. I was able to drift back on the descent to the finish and time my final kick perfectly. Having done well here, on this finish, in the past really helped me in the sprint today,” said Roth after the race.

Team SpiderTech was the top-ranked team amongst the 26 teams entered in the race.

Kevin Field, Directeur Sportif for Team SpiderTech, was pleased with the efforts from the team: “We had two goals today: win the race and win the team classification. In the end the boys won four classifications, the race, team, aggressive and KOM. We’re really happy. And I’m super proud of how the guys raced.”

The season is now over for Team SpiderTech powered by C10, its first season as a professional cycling team. Throughout this historic season, the team took 8 overall race victories, as well as 30 podiums in race finishes and classifications of UCI races across the North America and Europe Tours. In non UCI races in Canada and the US the team took another 14 wins and 24 podiums.

2011 UNIVEST GRAND PRIX (September 17, 2011)
Class: UCI 1.2
Location: Souderton, PA, USA
Stage: 1-day race

Distance: 160 Km

Official website.

RESULTS
1. ROTH Ryan (Team SpiderTech p/b C10) 3:52:27
2. PIPP Frank (Bissell Pro Cycling Team ST
3. ZIRBEL Tom (Jamis/Sutter Home ST
4. YOUNG Eric (Bissell Pro Cycling Team +0:13
5. SHMIDT Alexey (Team Type 1 – Sanofi-Aventis) +0:13
6. GILBERT Martin (Team SpiderTech p/b C10) +0:13

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15. LAMBERT-LEMAY Simon (Team SpiderTech p/b C10) +0:13
30. LANGLOIS Bruno (Team SpiderTech p/b C10) +0:13
48. BATTY Mark (Team SpiderTech p/b C10) +1:02
51. PARISIEN Francois (Team SpiderTech p/b C10) +1:11

ABOUT Team SpiderTech powered by C10
Team SpiderTech powered by C10 is Canada’s first Continental Professional Cycling Team. Founded by Steve Bauer and Josée Larocque in 2007, the team has earned a Professional Continental license from the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The 19 rider team of 16 Canadians and 3 other North American riders is sponsored by SpiderTech Inc. and a consortium of Canadian corporations known as C10 including BlackBerry, NRS Brakes, Pinetree Capital, Planet Energy and Saputo.

ABOUT SpiderTech
SpiderTech is the Canadian developer and world leader of pre-cut and ready to apply kinesiology taping solutions. SpiderTech is committed to excellence and innovation in the management of pain and myofascial dysfunction through the use of specialized elastic tape applications. SpiderTech’s focus is on the development and manufacturing of products and therapy protocols that meet the demands of today’s health care clinician and therapist.

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6 SpiderTech-sponsored riders selected to worlds team

Westy — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:41:18 +0000

Team SpiderTech p/b C10 riders Svein Tuft, Guillaume Boivin and Hugo Houle are among the six SpiderTech-sponsored riders who will represent Canada at the upcoming road worlds championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Canadian elite time trial and road champion Tuft will compete in the elite men’s time trial on Sept. 21 and road race on Sept. 25.

Canadian U23 time trial and road champion Houle will contest the U23 men’s time trial on Sept. 19, while 2010 worlds bronze medalist Boivin will be the lone Canadian in the men’s U23 road race on Sept. 23.

Three members of the Montreal-based SpiderTech propulsée par Powerwatts junior team will also represent Canada at the worlds.

Alizée Brien will compete in the junior women’s time trial on Sept. 19 and road race on Sept. 23, while Canadian junior time trial champion Alex Cataford and junior road champion Emile Jean are entered in the junior men’s time trial on Sept. 20 and road race on Sept. 24.

Click here for the Canadian Cycling Association team announcement.

Click here for the official world championships site.

SpiderTech’s World Tour debut a success

Westy — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:16:34 +0000

More than 100 000 fans line the roads in Quebec; At least as many turn out for Montreal race

(Montréal, QC – September 11, 2011) As the only professional Canadian cycling team, Team SpiderTech powered by C10 is happy and satisfied with its first two appearances on the UCI World Tour, at the Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec et de Montréal.

Throughout their first professional season, which concludes this coming weekend with the Univest Grand Prix, the Canadian team harvested 27 podiums, including jerseys and classifications, both on the European and North American scene.

In front of Canadian cycling fans gathered in Quebec City and Montreal — a crowd estimated at more than 100,000 just for the race in Quebec — Team SpiderTech took the opportunity to promote its brand and ride alongside the best UCI World Tour cyclists.

During the last race on Canadian soil in Montréal, similar crowds gathered around the edges of the course to encourage cyclists as they tackled the difficult climbs on and around the Mont-Royal, especially that of the Côte Camilien-Houde.

François Parisien was the best rider for Team SpiderTech, finishing in 62nd position in this 205.7-kilometre race, run over 17 laps of a of 12.1-km circuit. Svein Tuft placed 66th, while Ryan Roth finished 108th. A total of 111 riders finished the race, while 61 abandoned.

Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa of MoviStar won the race in a time of 5:20:18, followed by Pierrick Fedrigo de Française-Des-Jeux and Philippe Gilbert of Omega-Pharma Lotto in the second and third respectively.

Ryder Hesjedal of Garmin-Cervélo won the best Canadian honours in 11th place. Danny Pate of HTC-HighRoad won the King of the Mountain award as best climber, scoring the most points at the top of the gruelling Camilien-Houde climb, an 1.8 km stretch of road averaging an 8% grade. The award for the most combative rider was awarded to Yukiya Arashiro of Team EuropCar.

The SpiderTech team also benefited from these races to offer supporters the opportunity to purchase the official team clothing and accessories, which were hot commodities. Those interested in obtaining Team SpiderTech branded products can do so via the online store at www.cyclesportmanagement.com

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SpiderTech p/b C10 makes Canadian cycling history

Westy — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:08:49 +0000

Canada’s only professional cycling team rides for the first time on World Tour

(Québec, QC – September 9, 2011) It was a busy week for Team SpiderTech, with media appearances, signing autographs and shaking hands with the cycling fans gathered in Québec city as the team raced on home soil on the UCI World Tour. Eight cyclists took the start line on a beautiful day in Québec City for a 201.6-kilometre race against the world’s top cyclists.

Today, winning the bike race was long shot for Team SpiderTech. One of the objectives for Team SpiderTech was to be competitive, to show the World that Canadian cycling is on a rise and that Canadian riders can ride with the best.

The race in Quebec City, as well as the upcoming race this Sunday in Montreal, also serves as an opportunity for management at Team SpiderTech to showcase the power of cycling to current and prospective sponsors. With a strong program in place that showed for 25 international podium performances and classification victories this season, the World Tour races this week area great opportunity to thank all the cycling fans that supports Team SpiderTech’s vision to one day field a Canadian team on the UCI World Tour.

A total of 176 cyclists started the race that lasted more than five hours. Philippe Gilbert of Omega Pharma-Lotto went on to win the race, while Robert Gesink of RaboBank crossed the line in second place. Rigoberto Uran of Team Sky took third place.

Italian rider Matteo Trentin of QuickStep grabbed the most aggressive rider jersey, while 14th-place finisher Michael Barry of Team Sky won the top Canadian award. Jesus Herrada-Lopez of MoviStar went on to win the King of the Mountain jersey, which was disputed on the 420-meter, 9% grade Côte De Glacis.

From a racing perspective, the goal was to put SpiderTech riders in all the breakaways, and let Svein Tuft and François Parisien cruise in the peloton. The break went off in the first of 16 laps, which was anticipated. Team SpiderTech missed the break which had a rider each from MoviStar, Liquigas-Cannondale and EuropCar.

The break lasted 11 laps and had a gap of as much as 4:30 seconds but was caught by the peloton with four laps to go. Immediately, a group of 10 riders attacked. Two laps later, the break was caught again.

SpiderTech’s Svein Tuft then went on to lead an attack, joined by six other riders with 21 kilometres to race, accelerating the race tempo. Rave favourite Philippe Gilbert then went on to attack to rejoin the leading group, which split the peloton, and continued on his way to the victory.

At the end, in front of tens of thousands spectators gathered alongside the 12.6-kilometre course, Canadian champion Svein Tuft finished 39th. Ryan Roth, the other SpiderTech to finish, was 40th.

Click here for the full results.

“It’s amazing. It’s even more impressive than last year, and then I was already amazed. Up the climb, the crowds were insane. I knew with the smaller group breaking away, riding slow for the first half race, I knew that would make it for a very difficult finale, and it certainly lived up to that. Those guys were pretty impressive,” said Svein Tuft.

“You look at the guys who do well, and it’s the guys who can last, and keep suffering, making it over the climb. You look at a guy like Gesink, and he’s a pure climber. A strong all-round guy like Hesjesdal can really do well in a course like that. I don’t think the courses suit specific riders, but they just really suit strong, consistent rider. That’s the key to both these races, and suffering,” continued Tuft.

The team will travel to Montreal tomorrow, and are set to arrive at 11:50 a.m. at the Montreal train station, where they will meet with the press, and meet the fans welcoming the riders to Montreal.

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Team SpiderTech p/b C10 thanks sponsors

Westy — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:06:04 +0000

Canada’s only professional cycling team thrilled with sponsors contributions

(Ste-Catharines, ON – September 8, 2011) Team SpiderTech powered by C10, Canada’s only UCI Pro-continental team, is thrilled to be racing at the 2011 Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec et de Montréal this week, two races of the UCI World Tour.

These two races are closing a great season for the only Canadian-based professional cycling team, showcasing over 25 podiums in UCI one day races as well as sprint and KOM jerseys picked up in stage race along the way across Europe and North America.

The team’s successes are due in large part to the dedicated sponsors marketing through the Team SpiderTech powered by C10 project. Leading the way is the company SpiderTech Inc., a Canadian developer and World leader in pre-cut kinesiology tape. The team is also backed by a consortium of sponsors, called C10, which as a collective ensure sustainability for Team SpiderTech. The consortium includes notably BlackBerry, NRS Brakes, Pinetree Capital, Planet Energy and Saputo.

“The support we get from these sponsors is essential of the team’s successes. Without their commitment and dedication to our vision to become a World Team and race the Tour de France, our Team would not have been able to grow, develop and extend its reach around the World,” said Josée Larocque, co-founder and General Manager of Team SpiderTech.

Will Routley, who finished second at the Classique Tro Bron Léon in France, a race in which he won the Best Sprinter jersey, echoes Larocque’s comments: “Partners of the team together provide the opportunity for our Canadian athletes to excel at their profession. They have supported the team’s vision to race to victory in the most difficult professional sport in the world. Without their involvement, we would simply not be where we are right now, racing against the world’s best as Canada’s top cycling team.”

In addition to Team SpiderTech sponsors, there are a wide variety of suppliers that ensure the team is adequately equipped to race amongst the best in the world. Canadian-based Argon18, Canada’s award-winning bicycle manufacturer, is the team’s bicycle supplier, while Shimano offers Team SpiderTech the best components on the market with their Dura-Ace, Di2 and PRO product lines. Pearl Izumi provides the performance training and racing apparel for the team.

Other team’s suppliers are Humberview Group (Cadillac), Oakley, Hutchinson, Thule, Giro, Finish Line , Dunning, Canada Goose, SRM, Bonk Breaker, Herbalife and Park Tool.

Canadian companies interested in joining the team and be part of history as Team SpiderTech continues on its mission to be in the World Tour can do so by visiting the team’s become a sponsor page.

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Zach Bell to race Pro Sprint Challenge

Westy — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:52:22 +0000

Exciting, fan-favourite and TV-friendly event to be broadcast in more than 75 countries.

(Ste-Catharines, ON – September 7, 2011) Sprinter Zach Bell of North Vancouver, BC will represent Team SpiderTech in the Pro Sprint Challenge at the 2011 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec et de Montréal, a unique project sanctioned by the Canadian Cycling Association and supported by the International Cycling Union.

“The sprint challenge will be a great place to showcase the sport in a high energy venue that will keep even a less experienced audience engaged. I have had success in this style of event before and look forward to the challenge of racing head to head against the Pro Tour riders,” said Zach Bell, the 2011 World Cup Champion in the track cycling Omnium event. “It is also a great opportunity to develop my skills as a finisher. In bike racing we spend a lot of time working for others on the team and it is not often you get a chance to work on your skills in the final few hundred meters. So this race presents a great opportunity to develop those skills.”

In the Pro Sprint Challenge, sprinters from each professional cycling team will be sprinting their way to victory on a 1-kilometre course on the historic Grande Allée in Old Québec city, and race to the ultimate TV-friendly, fan favourite sprint finish.

The Sprint event is a unique concept born last year in close collaboration between the Canadian Cycling Association, the Fédération québécoise des sports cyclistes and Serge Arsenault, race organizer of the Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec et de Montréal. This year, Arsenault elevated the project and marketed the concept to all World Tour teams. The Pro Sprint Challenge will be televised in more than 75 countries world-wide. Rogers SportsNet, Radio-Canada and Canal Evasion will broadcast the event on tape delay. Consult your local listings.

The Pro Sprint Challenge will be held starting at 4:05 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 8, the day prior the World Tour road race, and all World Tour teams are participating.

Click here to visit the event website.

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SpiderTech p/b C10 unveils roster for Quebec, Montreal

Westy — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:11:57 +0000

Team unveils starters for Québec city, Montreal World Tour races

(Ste-Catharines, ON – September 7, 2011) Team SpiderTech powered by C10, Canada’s only UCI Pro-continental team, is thrilled to announce the official starters for the 2011 Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec et de Montréal this week, two races of the UCI World Tour.

History will be made this week as Team SpiderTech becomes the first ever Canadian-based professional cycling team to race at the UCI World Tour level. Through one of four wild card invitations from race organizer Serge Arsenault, Team SpiderTech riders will be racing alongside all the World Tour professional cycling teams at the highest level of racing.

“We have been waiting for this week since the first day we received our Pro Continental license, back in December. We couldn’t be happier to end this first professional season with races on the World Tour,” said Steve Bauer, co-founder of Team SpiderTech. “We’ve raced against some of these teams in the past, at various races across the World, but never have we raced against all of them at once, in a World Tour race. This is history in the making for Team SpiderTech. We are proud to represent our sponsors on these prestigious races on Canadian soil.”

Team SpiderTech will be sending eight riders to both the Québec City race and the Montreal City race, with some riders doing both races.

ROSTER – TEAM SPIDERTECH – GRAND PRIX CYCLISTE DE QUÉBEC

ANDERSON, Ryan (Vancouver, BC)
BELL, Zach (North Vancouver, BC)
GILBERT, Martin (Chateauguay, QC)
MCCARTY, Pat (Austin, TX, USA)
PARISIEN, François (Repentigny, QC)
ROTH, Ryan (Cambridge, ON)
ROUTLEY, Will (Whistler, BC)
TUFT, Svein (Langley, BC)

ROSTER – TEAM SPIDERTECH – GRAND PRIX CYCLISTE DE MONTREAL

ANDERSON, Ryan (Vancouver, BC)
EUSER, Lucas (Napa, CA, USA)
GILBERT, Martin (Chateauguay, QC)
LANGLOIS, Bruno (Quebec, QC)
MCCARTY, Pat (Austin, TX, USA)
PARISIEN, François (Repentigny, QC)
ROUTLEY, Will (Whistler, BC)
TUFT, Svein (Langley, BC)

The Quebec race will be held Friday September 9th, while the Montreal race will be held September 11th.

Click here for the official event website.

ABOUT Team SpiderTech powered by C10

Team SpiderTech powered by C10 is Canada’s first Continental Professional Cycling Team. Founded by Steve Bauer and Josée Larocque in 2007, the team has earned a Professional Continental license from the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The 19 rider team of 16 Canadians and 3 other North American riders is sponsored by SpiderTech Inc. and a consortium of Canadin corporations known as C10 including BlackBerry, NRS Brakes, Pinetree Capital, Planet Energy and Saputo.

ABOUT SpiderTech

SpiderTech is the Canadian developer and world leader of pre-cut and ready to apply kinesiology taping solutions. SpiderTech is committed to excellence and innovation in the management of pain and myofascial dysfunction through the use of specialized elastic tape applications. SpiderTech’s focus is on the development and manufacturing of products and therapy protocols that meet the demands of today’s health care clinician and therapist.

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USA Pro Cycling Challenge Stage 6 report

Westy — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:00:02 +0000

Levi Leipheimer wins USA Pro Cycling Challenge, completes American hat trick

The 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge ended on Sunday in Colorado, USA, with the sixth and final stage, a short 114.1-km road race between Golden and Denver. Since Monday, the riders have raced a total distance of 812.8 kilometres through some of the toughest terrain of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.

Levi Leipheimer of Team RadioShack won the race, topping the General Classification by 11 seconds over Christian Vandevelde of Garmin-Cervélo in second place. Leipheimer wore the Leaders’ jersey for five of the six stages to win his third stage race win of the season on American Soil to complete the hat trick. Leipheimer previously won the 2011 AMGEN Tour of California as well as the 2011 Tour of Utah.

Lucas Euser, one of Team SpiderTech’s top climbers, finished in 24th place overall, just 4 minutes 28 seconds behind Leipheimer. Flavio De Luna, who was sitting third in the Best Young rankings, finished today’s race outside the time limit.

Team SpiderTech powered by C10 will now travel to the province of Quebec for the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec et Montréal, Canada’s two UCI World Tour races on September 9th and 11th.

2011 USA PRO CHALLENGE
Category: UCI 2.1 America Tour
Location: United States of America
Type: Road Race – Stage Race (Prologue + 6 stages)
Stage 6: Golden to Denver (114.1 km)
Number of riders: 115
Website: http://www.usaprocyclingchallenge.com/
Live webcast: http://shacktracker.usaprocyclingchallenge.com

RESULTS – STAGE 6 (Golden to Denver, 114.1 km)
1. Daniel OSS (Liquigas-Cannondale) 2:27:08
2. Elia VIVIANI* (Liquigas-Cannondale) ST
3. Fred RODRIGUEZ (Team Exergy) ST
4. Daniel SUMMERHILL* (Team Garmin – Cervelo) ST
5. Frank PIPP (Bissell Pro Cycling) +0:02
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30. Lucas EUSER (Team Spidertech Powered by C10) +0:02
71. Francois PARISIEN (Team Spidertech Powered by C10) +0:49
78. Ryan ROTH (Team Spidertech Powered by C10) +1:08
HD. Flavio DE LUNA* (Team Spidertech Powered by C10)
*denotes U23

RESULTS – GENERAL CLASSIFICATION
1. Levi LEIPHEIMER (Team RadioShack) 20:00:24
2. Christian VANDEVELDE (Team Garmin – Cervelo) +0:11
3. Tejay VAN GARDEREN* (HTC – Highroad) +0:17
4. Tom DANIELSON (Team Garmin – Cervelo) +0:21
5. George HINCAPIE (BMC Racing Team) +0:53
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24. Lucas EUSER (Team Spidertech Powered by C10) +4:28
76. Francois PARISIEN (Team Spidertech Powered by C10) +28:01
89. Ryan ROTH (Team Spidertech Powered by C10) +42:39
HD. Flavio DE LUNA* ((Team Spidertech Powered by C10)
DNF. Jonathan Patrick MCCARTY (Team Spidertech Powered by C10)
DNF. Bruno LANGLOIS (Team Spidertech Powered by C10)
DNF. Andrew RANDELL (Team Spidertech Powered by C10)
DNF. David BOILY* (Team Spidertech Powered by C10)
*denotes U23

THE TEAMS

HTC-Highroad (USA); Team RadioShack (USA); BMC Racing Team (USA); Team Garmin-Cervélo (USA); Liquigas-Cannondale (ITA); Rabobank Pro Cycling Team (NED); Saxo Bank-Sunguard (DEN); Leopard-Trek (LUX); Team SpiderTech powered by C10 (CAN); Skil-Shimano (FRA); Geox-TMC (ESP); Team Type 1 – Sanofi (USA); UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling (USA); Bissell Pro Cycling (USA); Endura Racing (GBR); Gobernacion de Antioquia – Indeportes Antioquia (COL); Jelly Belly Cycling Team (USA); Team Exergy (USA); UNE-EPM (COL)

THE SPIDERTECH RIDERS – 2011 USA PRO CYCLING CHALLENGE

David BOILY – Québec, QC [2nd, Canadian Championships, U23, Road]
Flavio DE LUNA – Aguascalientes, MEX [Winner, Stage 5, 2010 Vuelta Mexico]
Lucas EUSSER – Napa, CA, USA [Winner, 2008 Univest Grand Prix]
Bruno LANGLOIS – Québec, QC [3rd, 2010 Canadian Championships, Road]
Pat McCARTY – Austin, TX, USA [4th, 2010 Tour of Utah]
François PARISIEN – Repentigny, QC [Winner, Stage 2 – Vuelta Mexico]
Andrew RANDELL – Toronto, ON [2nd, 2010 Canadian Championships, Road]
Ryan ROTH – Cambridge, ON [2nd, 2010 Gatineau Chrono]

ABOUT Team SpiderTech powered by C10

Team SpiderTech powered by C10 is Canada’s first Continental Professional Cycling Team. Founded by Steve Bauer and Josée Larocque in 2007, the team has earned a Professional Continental license from the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The 19 rider team of 16 Canadians and 3 other North American riders is sponsored by SpiderTech Inc. and a consortium of Canadian corporations known as C10 including BlackBerry, NRS Brakes, Pinetree Capital, Planet Energy and Saputo.

ABOUT SpiderTech

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6 SpiderTech riders in worlds pool

Westy — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:07:45 +0000

Six SpiderTech riders hoping for World Selection; Three confirmed to race the Tour de l’Avenir

(Ste-Catharines, ON – August 28, 2011) Six Team SpiderTech p/b C10 riders have been nominated to the Canadian selection pool for the 2011 UCI Road World Championships to be held in Copenhaguen, Denmark from September 19-25, and three riders have confirmed their participation with Team Canada to race at the 2011 Tour de l’Avenir.

Hoping for a World Championships selection are Svein Tuft, Zach Bell, Martin Gilbert, Keven Lacombe, Bruno Langlois and Will Routley. The final team selection will be released by the Canadian Cycling Association in the next two weeks.

For the 2011 Tour de l’Avenir held next week in France, Guillaume Boivin, David Boily and Hugo Houle, the Canadian U23 champion in both the road race and time trials, have all been confirmed to race under the Team Canada banner.

The 2011 Tour de l’Avenir is the sixth and final event of the UCI U23 Nations Cup tour. This 1,201-km race is held through seven stages, in addition to the opening prologue. In the U23 Nations Cup standings, France is comfortably leading the world standings in first place with 90 points, a 22-point lead over second-place Italy. Canada is ranked 21st with nine points.

ABOUT Team SpiderTech powered by C10

Team SpiderTech powered by C10 is Canada’s first Continental Professional Cycling Team. Founded by Steve Bauer and Josée Larocque in 2007, the team has earned a Professional Continental license from the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The 19 rider team of 16 Canadians and 3 other North American riders is sponsored by SpiderTech Inc. and a consortium of Canadian corporations known as C10 including BlackBerry, NRS Brakes, Pinetree Capital, Planet Energy and Saputo.

ABOUT SpiderTech

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