2026 World Road Cycling Championships

93rd edition: September 20 - 27, 2026
Montréal, Quebec, Canada

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Saturday, September 26: Elite Women's Road Race, 180.1 km

Elite Women's Road Race map & profile | Elite Women's Road Race photos

Hewre's a screen grab of Demi Vollering becoming the new world champion.

Weather at Montréal at 9:30 PM, local time: 16C (60F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the north at 11 km/hr (7 mph). The temperature is forecast to climb to 20C (68F) at noon.

The race: The race started at 9:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time. The 2026 Women's World Road Championship ended up with the same podium as the 2026 Women's Tour de France.

The women's peloton crosses the Pont Samuel-De Champlain. Photo: David Marcotte

Complete results:

Photos

There were two non-starters: Lucie De Marigny-Lagesse (Mauritius) & Ramadhan Najma (Comoros)

There were 148 starters and 49 classified finishers.

180.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 37.896 km/hr

1	Demi Vollering	Netherlands	4hr 45min 9sec
2	Kasia Niewiadoma	Poland	s.t.
3	Elisa Longo Borghini	Italy	@ 4sec
4	Marlen Reusser	Switzerland	0:08
5	Juliette Berthet	France	0:39
6	Puck Pieterse	Netherlands	1:36
7	Célia Gery	France	2:55
8	Dominika Włodarczyk	Poland	4:16
9	Franziska Koch	France	5:48
10	Maeva Squiban	Germany	5:51
11	Pfeiffer Georgi	Great Britain	8:34
12	Eleonora Camilla Gasparrini	Italy	s.t.
13	Steffi Häberlin	Switzerland	s.t.
14	Liane Lippert	Germany	s.t.
15	Noemi Rüegg	Switzerland	s.t.
16	Henrietta Christie	New Zealand	s.t.
17	Sarah Van Dam	Canada	s.t.
18	Lauren Dickson	Great Britain	s.t.
19	Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio	South Africa	s.t.
20	Lotte Kopecky	Belgium	s.t.
21	Kristen Faulkner	United States	s.t.
22	Sara Casasola	Italy	s.t.
23	Paula Patiño	Colombia	s.t.
24	Shari Bossuyt	Belgium	s.t.
25	Monica Trinca Colonel	Italy	s.t.
26	Mavi García	Spain	8:40
27	Margot Vanpachtenbeke	Belgium	s.t.
28	Antonia Niedermaier	Germany	s.t.
29	Karlijn Swinkels	Netherlands	s.t.
30	Silvia Persico	Italy	8:48
31	Mireia Benito	Spain	s.t.
32	Cédrine Kerbaol	France	s.t.
33	Ginia Caluori	Switzerland	8:51
34	Zoe Bäckstedt	Great Britain	9:03
35	Francesca Barale	Italy	12:38
36	Nina Berton	Luxembourg	14:21
37	Ana Vitória Magalhães	Brazil	s.t.
38	Riejanne Markus	Netherlands	s.t.
39	Amanda Spratt	Australia	s.t.
40	Lauren Stephens	United States	15:31
41	Nadia Gontova	Canada	15:33
42	Sarah Gigante	Australia	s.t.
43	Marte Berg Edseth	Norway	s.t.
44	Lieke Nooijen	Netherlands	s.t.
45	Kim Le Court-Pienaar	Mauritius	s.t.
46	Anna Henderson	Great Britain	s.t.
47	Katharina Sadnik	Austria	s.t.
48	Femke de Vries	Netherlands	s.t.
49	Évita Muzic	France	s.t.

 

Elite Women's Road Race map & profile:

Elite women's road race map

Elite women's road race profile

Elite women's road race photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Here they come...

Demi Vollering drives for the line while it appears that second-place Kasia Niewiadoma has conceded.

Demi Vollering wins.

Demi Vollering sits up and absorbs the fact that she is world champion.

Kasia Niewiadoma was second.

Elisa Longo Borghini finishes third.

UCI president David Lappartient helped Demi Vollering with her new rainbow jersey.

The podium, from left: Kasia Niewiadoma (2nd), Demi Vollering (1st), & Elisa Longo Borghini (3rd).

A tearful Demi Vollering in her rainbow jersey.

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Tuesday, September 22: Team Time Trial Mixed Relay, 40.6 km

Team Time Trial map & profile

The Italian men begin their race-winning ride. Sirotti photo

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Weather at Montréal at 8:30 PM, local time: 9C (49F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the north-northeast at 10 m/hr (6 mph). There is just a 2% chance of rain.

The race: Each team is made up of six riders, three men and three women. The men ride the first half of the course and then the women ride the second half.The first team to start at 8:30 AM was the World Cycling Center Team (WCC) made up of six riders from six diferent nations. There are fifteen teams enrolled, and a team rolled off every three minutes.

Here's the report from rider Mattia Cattaneo's Team Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe:

Mattia Cattaneo has become World Champion in the Mixed Relay with Italy. The 35-year-old was part of the team that claimed their country’s first-ever gold medal in the event, which was introduced in 2019.

Together with Matteo Sobrero and Filippo Ganna, Mattia formed the Italian men’s trio. After 20.3 kilometers, they handed over to Elisa Longo Borghini, Vittoria Guazzini and Monica Trinca Colonel with an eleven-second lead over France and twelve seconds over Australia. The women defended most of the advantage over the same course to secure the world title.

Brand new world champions! The Italians joyfully put on their new rainbow jerseys. Sirotti photo

It was Mattia’s fourth consecutive appearance in the Italian Mixed Relay team. In the previous three years, the team finished fifth, third and fourth. Alongside Romet Pajur, who finished tenth with Estonia, he was the only rider from Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe competing in the event.

With the Mixed Relay complete, Mattia has now finished two thirds of his World Championships in Montréal. He finished 16th in the individual time trial on the opening Sunday and is also part of Italy’s line-up for the final road race.

“It was a tough course. But, as in previous years, we had a strong team. We’ve been trying to win this rainbow jersey for so long. Now we’ve finally done it, so I’m very happy.” - Mattia Cattaneo

The podium, from left: France (2nd), Italy (1st), & Switzerland, (3rd). Sirotti photo

Complete results:

40.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 47.266 km/hr

1	Italy	51min 32sec
	Vittoria Guazzini
	Elisa Longo Borghini
	Monica Trinca Colonel
	Mattia Cattaneo
	Filippo Ganna
	Matteo Sobrero
2	France	@ 8sec
	Bruno Armirail
	Rémi Cavagna
	Jordan Labrosse
	Juliette Berthet
	Cédrine Kerbaol
	Marion Borras
3	Switzerland	@ 20sec
	Stefan Bissegger
	Stefan Küng
	Jasmin Liechti
	Marlen Reusser
	Noemi Rüegg
	Mauro Schmid
4	Australia	@ 40sec
	Georgia Baker
	Mackenzie Coupland
	Conor Leahy
	Michael Matthews
	Cameron Rogers
	Felicity Wilson-Haffenden
5	Germany	@ 49sec
	Nikias Arndt
	Ricarda Bauernfeind
	Franziska Koch
	Jasha Sütterlin
	Max Walscheid
	Antonia Niedermaier
6	Spain	@ 1min 11sec
	Sandra Alonso
	Héctor Álvarez
	Mireia Benito
	Paula Blasi
	Iván Romeo
	Eñaut Urkaregi
7	Norway	@ 1min 49sec
	Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset
	Tobias Foss
	Andreas Leknessund
	Embret Svestad-Bårdseng
	Oda Aune Gissinger
	Marte Berg Edseth
8	Poland	@ 1min 49sec
	Patryk Goszczurny
	Nadia Hartman
	Jan Michal Jackowiak
	Michał Kwiatkowski
	Maja Tracka
	Dominika Włodarczyk
9	Canada	@ 2min 7sec
	Olivia Baril
	Pier-André Côté
	Nadia Gontova
	Alison Jackson
	Michael Leonard
	Nickolas Zukowsky
10	Estonia	@ 3min 26sec
	Elisabeth Ebras
	Oliver Mätik
	Romet Pajur
	Frank Aron Ragilo
	Laura Lizette Sander
	Ann-Christine Allik
11	China	@ 5min 8sec
	Houwang Cao
	Haixin Dong
	You Li
	Xin Tang
	Chenli Zhao
	Shimeng Zhu
12	Mauritius	@ 5min 44sec
	Camille Chasteau de Balyon
	Lucie de Marigny-Lagesse
	Kim Le Court-Pienaar
	Alexandre Mayer
	Jeremy Raboude
	Daniel Yon Hin
13	UCI World Cycling Centre	@ 5min 47sec
	Amir Arsalan Ansari
	Mario Sánchez
	Ahmad Badreddin Wais
	Nesrine Houili
	Jazilla Mwamikazi
	Natalie Revelo
14	Mexico	@ 6min 9sec
	Romina Hinojosa
	Andrea Ramirez
	Lizbeth Yareli Salazar
	Sebastian Ruiz
	Tomas Aguirre
	Ignacio de Jesús Prado
15	Japan	@ 6min 43sec
	Karin Abe
	Jo Hashikawa
	Ayana Mizutani
	Taito Shindo
	Rena Tanaka
	Isshin Yamasato

 

Team Time Trial map & profile:

Team Time Trial map

Team Time Trial profile

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Sunday, September 20: Elite Men's 39.2 km individual time trial

Men's time trial map & profile | Men's time trial photos

The master of the crono: Remco Evenepoel on his way to winning his fourth consecutive world time trial championship. Sirotti photo

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Weather at Montréal at 1:00 PM, local time: 14C (57F), cloudy, with the wind from the south at 3 km/hr (2 mph). There is a 15% chance of rain at 2:00 PM.

The race: Elite men & women are riding the same course.

Here's the report from winner Remco Evenepoel's Team Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe:

Remco Evenepoel made cycling history in Montréal. The Belgian was crowned World Champion in the individual road time trial for the fourth consecutive time – the first rider ever to achieve this feat.

For Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe, it is the team’s first medal in a World Championship elite time trial.

Remco delivered a start-to-finish victory through the streets of Montréal, leading at every intermediate time check. He completed the 39.2-kilometre course in 44:53 minutes, averaging 52.4 km/h. He finished almost a minute ahead of silver medallist Filippo Ganna.

On a par with Martin and Cancellara
In 2023, after winning bronze in the previous two editions, Remco claimed his first World Championship time trial title. One year later, he successfully defended his title, narrowly beating Ganna once again, before winning his third consecutive title in Rwanda in 2025, finishing more than a minute ahead of Jay Vine in second place.

Four consecutive gold medals are unprecedented. No rider has ever won more than four World Championship time trial titles either, meaning Remco has also moved into the record books as joint record holder for the most time trial world titles, alongside Tony Martin and Fabian Cancellara.

Remco Evenepoel: “It’s simply incredible. My goal was to come here and win, to take this fourth title. That was my motivation. Thanks to the team around me and to Specialized for providing me with such great equipment. It was a challenging course, with a technical start and finish and a power section in the middle. After six kilometres, we had taken our own time check, and when I saw that I was in front, I was able to relax a little. Now I have some time to recover, and then I’ll focus on next Sunday.”

Complete results:

Photos

39.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 52.403 km/hr

1	Remco Evenepoel	Belgium	44min 53sec
2	Filippo Ganna	Italy	@ 57sec
3	Paul Seixas	France	1:13
4	Brandon McNulty	United States	1:25
5	Jakob Söderqvist	Sweden	1:26
6	Stefan Küng	Mexico	1:39
7	Isaac del Toro	Switzerland	1:44
8	Kasper Asgreen	Denmark	1:49
9	Daan Hoole	Netherlands	2:02
10	Callum Thornley	Great Britain	2:03
11	Alec Segaert	Belgium	2:04
12	Mikkel Bjerg	Denmark	2:06
13	Michael Leonard	Canada	2:10
14	Jasha Sütterlin	Germany	2:11
15	Mattia Cattaneo	Spain	2:13
16	Iván Romeo	Italy	2:14
17	Jan Tratnik	Slovenia	2:16
18	Ethan Hayter	Great Britain	2:19
19	Artem Shmidt	United States	2:20
20	Nelson Oliveira	Portugal	2:23
21	Ivo Oliveira	Portugal	2:29
22	Tobias Foss	Norway	s.t.
23	Michał Kwiatkowski	Poland	2:34
24	Pablo Castrillo	Spain	2:42
25	Byron Munton	South Africa	2:44
26	Bruno Armirail	France	2:45
27	Max Walscheid	Germany	2:48
28	Stefan Bissegger	Switzerland	2:54
29	Arthur Kluckers	Czech Republic	2:60
30	Mathias Vacek	Luxembourg	3:12
31	Nickolas Zukowsky	Canada	3:19
32	Andreas Leknessund	Norway	3:23
33	Conor Leahy	Australia	3:24
34	Rune Herregodts	Belgium	3:29
35	Ognjen Ilić	Serbia	3:41
36	Ryan Mullen	Ireland	3:48
37	Wálter Vargas	Colombia	3:49
38	János Pelikán	Hungary	4:22
39	Henrique da Silva Avancini	Brazil	4:30
40	Kaden Hopkins	Bermuda	4:48
41	Barnabás Peák	Hungary	5:18
42	Anton Kuzmin	Kazakhstan	5:31
43	Jo Hashikawa	Japan	5:46
44	Amir Arsalan Ansari	Refugee Cycling Team	5:49
45	Brandon Smith Rivera	Colombia	5:54
46	Nicholas Narraway	Bermuda	6:17
47	Cory Williams	Belize	6:26
48	Maral-Erdene Batmunkh	Mongolia	7:07
49	Alexandre Mayer	Mauritius	7:11
50	Houwang Cao	China	7:27
51	Chenglu Liu	China	7:32
52	Daniil Marukhin	Kazakhstan	7:33
53	Derrick Chavarria	Belize	8:14
54	Fredd Matute	Honduras	8:40
55	Majid Abu Harrah	Jordan	8:58
56	Ahmad Badreddin Wais	Refugee Cycling Team	9:27
57	Daniel Yon Hin	Mauritius	10:20
58	Christopher Bodden	Cayman Islands	14:32
59	Apolinário Cá	Guinea-Bissau	23:14
60	Gil Landim Gomes	Guinea-Bissau	24:34
DNS	Arvin Moazemi	Iran

Course map & profile:

Map of the individual time trial course

Profile of the individual time trial course.

Elite Mens Time Trial photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Remco Evenepoel going faster on a bike than anybody else in the world.

Filippo Ganna riding to second place.

Third-place Paul Seixas

American rider Brandon McNulty was fourth

Isaac del Toro was seventh.

Remco Evenepoel and his wife just after the race.

Another rainbow jersey to squeeze into Remco's crowded closet.

Second-place Filippo Ganna

Third-place Paul Seixas

The elite mens world championship podium, from left: Filippo Ganna (2nd), Remco Evenepoel (1st), & Paul Seixas (3rd)

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Sunday, September 20: Elite Women's 39.2 km individual time trial

Women's time trial map & profile

Marlen Reusser on her way to another world championship. Photo: Adam Pretty/Getty Images

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Weather at Montréal at 10:00 AM, local time: 12C (54F), cloudy, with the wind from the north-northeast at 3 km/hr (2 mph). There is a 5% chance of rain.

The race: Elite men & women are riding the same course. Katrine Aalerud (Norway) did not start.

The Olympics posted this race report by Matt Nelson:

Switzerland’s Marlen Reusser threw a birthday party to remember at the 2026 UCI Road World Championships in Montréal on Sunday (20 September), eschewing the traditional cake in favour of gifting herself a second women’s elite time trial world title.

Living up the favorite label bestowed upon her by road cycling fans and pundits before the race, she negative split – going faster on the second half of the course than the first – the longest route ever ridden by the women’s elite category to don the rainbow jersey once more. 

Even a light drizzle in the closing kilometers couldn’t stop the silver medalist in the women’s time trial at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 from bearing down on those who began the day believing they could snatch the crown from atop her head.

Pushing the boundaries on a technical course around La Métropole, Reusser rode a fine line between disaster and divinity in the corners, farming every bit of power out her aching legs, whenever the road straightened for a brief moment. 

By the time she overtook 2026 Tour de France Femmes champion Demi Vollering in between the third split and the finish line, it was abundantly clear this queen of the road would rule over the dominion of time for another season.

Powering up the final rise to the finish, she stopped the clock at 50:24.44, riding an average of 46.660 kph (29 mph) over a distance of 39.2km (24.4 miles).

Great Britain’s Zoe Backstedt (51:04.55) – reigning U23 time trial world champion – was relegated to second fiddle in the city known for it’s Acadian rhythms and annual jazz festival, with Germany’s Franziska Koch (51:09.98) occupying the final step of the podium.

“It’s a pretty good present,” Reusser said of winning a second world title on her birthday. “I thought: ‘Win or not, either way I have something to celebrate.’”

Complete results:

39.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 46.667 km/hr

1	Marlen Reusser	Switzerland	50min 24sec
2	Zoe Bäckstedt	Great Britain	@ 40sec
3	Franziska Koch	Germany	0:45
4	Elisa Longo Borghini	Italy	0:50
5	Cédrine Kerbaol	France	1:10
6	Antonia Niedermaier	Belgium	1:47
7	Lotte Kopecky	Germany	1:49
8	Demi Vollering	Netherlands	1:50
9	Dominika Włodarczyk	Poland	1:59
10	Vittoria Guazzini	Italy	2:05
11	Lotte Claes	Belgium	2:09
12	Lieke Nooijen	Netherlands	2:16
13	Taylor Knibb	United States	2:18
14	Lauretta Hanson	Australia	2:19
15	Anna Morris	France	2:51
16	Juliette Berthet	Great Britain	2:57
17	Christina Schweinberger	Austria	3:02
18	Paula Blasi	Spain	3:06
19	Nadia Gontova	Canada	3:14
20	Mireia Benito	Spain	3:37
21	Kristen Faulkner	United States	3:41
22	Anniina Ahtosalo	Finland	4:16
23	Olivia Baril	Canada	4:47
24	Nika Bobnar	Slovenia	5:01
25	Teniel Campbell	Trinidad & Tobago	5:08
26	Lucie de Marigny-Lagesse	Mauritius	5:39
27	Valeriya Kononenko	Ukraine	5:41
28	Romina Hinojosa	Mexico	5:42
29	Diana Peñuela	Estonia	5:47
30	Ann-Christine Allik	Colombia	5:56
31	Bronwyn Macgregor	New Zealand	6:09
32	Shimeng Zhu	China	6:26
33	Sara Roel	Mexico	7:29
34	Gergana Stoyanova	Bulgaria	8:12
35	Xin Tang	China	8:20
36	Faina Potapova	Kazakhstan	8:50
37	Xaveline Nirere	Rwanda	9:17
38	Diane Ingabire	Rwanda	9:45
39	Magh Marenda Firotika	Indonesia	11:36
40	Skye Davidson	Zimbabwe	11:38
41	Mashael Alhazmi	Saudi Arabia	12:56
42	Karin Abe	Japan	13:05
43	Jelimo Kiplagat Monica	Kenya	16:15
44	Kendra Masiga	Kenya	16:52
45	Alyssa Burgess	Cayman Islands	18:36
46	Rongina Ngandu	Zimbabwe	22:38
47	Sajedeh Siyahian	Iran	28:51

 

Course map & profile:

Course map

Course profile