{"id":34032,"date":"2026-08-23T10:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/34032\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T10:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:49:20","slug":"eve-buczkowski-wins-junior-womens-points-race-world-championships-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/34032\/","title":{"rendered":"Eve Buczkowski wins junior women&#8217;s points race world championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eve Buczkowski is a junior world champion!<\/p>\n<p>The Talbotville, Ont. rider won the junior women\u2019s points race Saturday at the junior track world champs in Belgium. The national team rider won the gold medal and the rainbow jersey at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uci.org\/competition-hub\/2026-uci-junior-track-world-championships\/7kdPdUIDkL2s2HXClvfqA3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sport Vlaanderen Zolder velodrome.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2026 junior track worlds<\/p>\n<p>Buczkowski, who races for Milton Revolution Racing, added the individual world title to an already impressive week in Belgium. Earlier in the championships, she helped Canada\u2019s junior women\u2019s team pursuit squad set a new national record. She and <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/alex-fangeat-on-her-world-pursuit-record-wasnt-part-of-the-plan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Fangeat<\/a> also held the IP world record last year.<\/p>\n<p>Buczkowski\u2019s season<\/p>\n<p>The world title caps a strong season for Buczkowski, who collected eight medals at the Canadian junior track championships earlier this year, including gold in the team pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>She has also raced extensively on the road in 2026, competing at events including the Tour de l\u2019Abitibi Femmes and Coupe de l\u2019Avenir. Her European campaign included Belgian kermesses, In Flanders Fields-Middelkerke-Wevelgem and the Tour du G\u00e9vaudan Occitanie Femmes.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the team pursuit, Team Canada qualified second behind Great Britain, and would eventually finish fourth. The 2025 junior track world championships wrap up Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Buczkowski is part of a promising new generation of Canadian riders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re encouraged by the performances of the team at the junior track worlds and we see potential for future success with the athletes who are currently in Belgium,\u201d S\u00e9bastien Travers, Cycling Canada\u2019s chief high performance sport officer said. \u201cWe are looking forward to seeing this cohort of athletes develop and perform in the maple leaf over the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 junior track worlds wrap up Sunday with the madison and keirin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eve Buczkowski is a junior world champion! The Talbotville, Ont. rider won the junior women\u2019s points race Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[18465,7,18431,2268],"class_list":["post-34032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-2026-junior-track-world-championships","tag-belgium","tag-eve-buczkowski","tag-spotlight"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117144437653113378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}