Canada's Mike Sametz, Keely Shaw earn bronze medals at Para road cycling worlds
Canadians Isabella Holmgren, Marin Lowe take gold, silver in women's junior event
Canada's Mike Sametz and Keely Shaw each raced to bronze medals on Thursday at the Para road cycling world championships in Dumfries, Scotland.
Sametz, of Calgary, crossed the finish line of the 10-kilometre men's C3 time trial course in 23 minutes 25.87 seconds for his third career world medal.
Germany's Matthias Schindler won gold at 22:50.67, while England's Finlay Graham took silver just 1.98 seconds behind.
Sametz, 27, also won bronze in the event at the 2016 Paralympics. He was born with right hemiplegic cerebral palsy and started biking at 12 years old.
Shaw, 29, comfortably placed third in the women's C4 individual time trial, clocking in just under 90 seconds behind gold medallist Samantha Bosco of the U.S. England's Emily Petricola took silver.
Shaw previously won silver on the track in the women's C3 individual pursuit.
The Midale, Sask., native, who has partial paralysis after falling off a horse, made her Paralympic debut in Tokyo in 2020, where she brought home a bronze medal.
Canada now has four medals at the road cycling worlds after Nathan Clement won gold and Shelley Gautier added bronze on Thursday. Canadians previously earned five medals at the track worlds.
Action from Dumfries continues through Sunday.
Canada 1-2 in women's junior events
Meanwhile, Isabella Holmgren won gold and fellow Canadian Marin Lowe took silver in the women's junior cross-country Olympic race.
Holmgren, from Orillia, Ont., rode out to an early lead in the first lap of the race and finished with a time of one hour seven minutes 37 seconds.
Lowe, from Squamish, B.C., crossed the finish line 39 seconds later.
Natalia Grzegorzewska of Poland claimed bronze.
Holmgren's world title continues her successful season.
She became first Canadian to win the junior cyclocross world championship in February, finishing 20 seconds ahead of twin sister Ava in Hoogerheide, Netherlands.
Ava Holmgren missed Thursday's race after crashing in practice.
"It was crazy, it was very fun, it still doesn't feel real," Isabella Holmgren said. "I really like the course and the climbing, and because Ava wasn't able to race, I just raced extra hard for her."
