Fresh off a silver medal showing at the Track World Championships last year, Jasmine Glaesser and the Canadian Team Pursuit cycle squad were named 2015 Athletes of the Year.
The team, which is ranked second in the world, consists of Glaesser, Stephanie Roorda, Allison Beveridge and Laura Brown. The group recently took the bronze medal at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in women's pursuit.
The 22-year-old Glaesser was one of only a handful of athletes to compete in the London Olympics, finishing the Games with a bronze medal in indoor cycling, just edging Australia off the podium by a tenth of a second.
The German-born cyclist moved to Coquitlam at the age of nine. It wasn't until her high school graduation, when Glaesser was given a road bike as a gift that she took up cycling seriously.
Also honoured at the 2015 Athlete of the Year Awardswere Maggie Coles-Lyster, Tory Nyhaug, and Alex Tougas, all finalists for their respective Athlete of the Year categories.
