March 19/07 (Ottawa, ON) – National Handcycling Team member Rico Morneau, of Montreal, QC, is in Australia where he was invited to race at the 2007 Wild West Handcycling Tour 5 day stage competition, March 17-22. He took the third and second place on March 17th and 18th respectively:

"I'm very happy with my results. My training in France this winter is paying off," said Morneau, who still has three races to go.

Here is the link to the official results:
http://www.handcycling.org.au/pages/wwt/2007/2007_event.html

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