Barely past her 21st birthday, Madeline Schmidt of the Rideau Canoe Club can clinch a Rio 2016 Olympic berth with a repeat victory in the women’s K-2 500-metre event at the second set of Canadian national team trials June 24-26 in Montreal.
Ben Tardioli’s potential path to the Games is considerably more complicated, though he most definitely helped his cause by producing Canada’s best result in an event featured on the Olympic programme at the season’s second World Cup event on May 29 in Czech Republic. The 26-year-old placed 5th in the men’s C-1 200 m.
At the May 21-22 canoe slalom national team trials in B.C., Ottawa’s Mike Tayler launched himself back towards the front of representing Canada in the K-1 discipline thanks to his wins in all four runs at the trials. Athletes can still accumulate points in the selection standings with strong results at the season’s first World Cup events.
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