I was on a trajectory to the top of the track cycling world when an unthinkable crash at the 2018 Pan-American Track Cycling Championships in Aguascalientes, Mexico, would set me on another path: a path of physical, emotional, and spiritual recovery from a severe traumatic brain injury. This video is that story of my healing…Read more My Journey, Five Years Later
Track Cycling Racing
News items related to Stefan’s Track Cycling Career.
Precision
This fall term at school saw me taking Design 393, the fundamentals of visual communication design, at the University of Alberta. In this class we worked with typography, photography, and how to combine them both to convey and evoke emotions, ideas, and information etc. The final project in this class was to create a booklet…Read more Precision
My Track Cycling Career
photo credit: Cycling Canada Instagram Story It has been over a year now since my crash on August 30, 2018. The road to recovery from a severe traumatic brain injury is long and challenging. Although my recovery is going incredibly well, I still have the final portions of it ahead of me. With that being…Read more My Track Cycling Career
2018 Pan-Amercian Track Cycling Championship
Stefan crashed on August 30th at the 2018 Pan-Amercian Track Cycling Championship in Aguascalientes, Mexico. We (Barbara, Norman and Carsten Ritter) would personally like to thank the Cycling Canada for all their love and support at this time. As well as the love, outreach and support from lots of family, friends, Edmonton and world wide cycling communities,…Read more 2018 Pan-Amercian Track Cycling Championship
GC2018 XXI Commonwealth Games
2018 XXI Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia - April 4 to 15, 2018 Stefan competed for Team Canada in the four Track Sprint Cycling events in the newly built Anna Meares Velodrome in Brisbane from April 4 to April 8, 2018. Men's Team Sprint Men's Keirin Men's 1 Kilometre Time Trial (Kilo) Men's Match Sprint DAY 1 -…Read more GC2018 XXI Commonwealth Games
2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships Apeldoorn
(cover photo courtesy of SWpix.com) UCI 2018 Track Cycling World Championships Apeldoorn, Netherlands - February 28 to March 4, 2018 March 2, 2018 - Stefan placed 12th in the sprint qualifications with a time of 9.828. This paired him up in the 1/16 Final against Yuta Wakimoto of Japan. Unfortunately, he lost and did not proceed…Read more 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships Apeldoorn
Stefan Ritter’s 2017 & Minsk Review
Recovery As many of you know, June was not my month with two big crashes in Trexlertown PA. These crashes had me sitting on the sidelines for the rest of the summer. However, spending the summer at home was a nice change of pace. Before I knew it, September arrived and my unintentional summer vacation, full…Read more Stefan Ritter’s 2017 & Minsk Review
World Cup V, Minsk, January 2018
World Cup V Minsk, Belarus – 19 to 21 January 2018 Men's Keirin - Saturday, January 20th SILVER for Stefan video of Keirin Final Quoted from Canadian Cyclist: For Ritter, a former Junior world champion (Kilo), the podium result came after a long recovery from a crash in 2017 that kept him out of competition for the…Read more World Cup V, Minsk, January 2018
Track Cycling Challenge 2017
The Canadian Sprint Team had a few days break and then it was back to racing. This time in Grenchen, Switzerland at the Tissot Velodrome for the Track Cycling Challenge 2017. Wednesday, December 20th was a day of Men Elite sprinting. Stefan steadily raced all day starting with the second fastest qualifying time to ending…Read more Track Cycling Challenge 2017
Troféu Internacional Municipio de Anadia 2017
Thanks to the UVP - Federação Portuguesa de Ciclismo's Facebook page, here are a few photos of Stefan. DAY 1 - Sprint - Silver Flying 200 Qualifier with a first place qualifying time of 9.993. Match Sprint for first place versus Vaslijus Lendel. See the race in action - click here. Match Sprint Medal Ceremony DAY 2 -…Read more Troféu Internacional Municipio de Anadia 2017
2017 Canadian Nationals & World Cup III Milton
Due to the crash on July 1, 2017, Stefan did not participate in the 2017 Canadian Nationals (September 28 to 30, 2017) nor in the World Cup III Â (December 1 to 3, 2017). Both races were held at the Mattamy Velodrome in Milton, Ontario, which is the home training centre for Canadian Track Cyclists. Good…Read more 2017 Canadian Nationals & World Cup III Milton
Trexlertown June 2017
Each year Trexlertown, PA holds a month long event during the summer called World Series of Bicycling. In 2017 Stefan participated in the event for the first time and had a few bumps along the way. Below is a summery of how events unfolded for Stefan. Friday, June 9th - Off to a Sprint Season…Read more Trexlertown June 2017
Stefan Ritter 🇨🇦 