The UCI Road World Championships: Montreal 2026 and the three editions before it.

The 2026 UCI Road World Championships were held in Montreal, Canada, from 20 to 27 September, dates the UCI has confirmed. Every title is decided. This page gives the Montreal results and the elite results of the three editions before it, mostly from the UCI's own reports.

Status on 22 October 2026

Montreal 2026 is finished. The UCI's closing report confirms the championships ran from 20 to 27 September 2026. That settles an earlier difference between sources: Wikipedia had given 20 to 27 September, while a search summary of a City of Montreal page had said 19 to 27 September.

Montreal 2026: the courses

The UCI gives the elite road races as 273.7 km for men and 180.4 km for women, the women's race with 2,570 m of climbing, and says both elite time trials used the same 39.2 km course from Avenue du Parc to Jeanne Mance Park (some of these distances reached us through a search summary of the UCI's pages).

Montreal 2026: the elite results

Event, 2026	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Source
Men's road race, 27 September	Brandon McNulty (USA), 6h 17' 04"	Michael Matthews (Australia), 13 seconds	Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands), 13 seconds	UCI; time and third-place gap from Wikipedia
Women's road race, Saturday 26 September	Demi Vollering (Netherlands), 4h 45' 09"	Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney (Poland), same time	Elisa Longo Borghini (Italy), 4 seconds	Kuwait Times; Wikipedia
Men's time trial, 20 September	Remco Evenepoel (Belgium), 44:53.13	Filippo Ganna (Italy), 57 seconds	Paul Seixas (France), 1' 13"	UCI
Women's time trial, 20 September	Marlen Reusser (Switzerland), 50:24.44	Zoe Backstedt (Great Britain), just over 40 seconds	Franziska Koch (Germany)	UCI
Mixed relay team time trial, Tuesday 22 September	Italy, 51:32.28	France, 51:40.91	Switzerland, 51:52.18	UCI

Men's road race. McNulty won after riding the last 33 km alone, according to the UCI. Some news reports called him the first American to win the men's world road title in 33 years; the UCI's report does not say this and we could not confirm it, so we do not repeat it as fact.

Women's road race. Vollering beat Niewiadoma-Phinney in a sprint, and Marlen Reusser was fourth, 8 seconds down (Kuwait Times; Wikipedia). No UCI report of this race appeared in our research.

Time trials. The UCI says Evenepoel, averaging 52.4 km/h, became the first rider to win the elite time trial at four editions in a row; it was his fourth title. Reusser kept her title, and the UCI counts it as her fifth world time trial medal: two gold, two silver and one bronze.

Montreal 2026: under-23 and junior titles

Men's under-23 road race: Ashlin Barry (USA), alone (UCI).
Junior time trials, 22 September: Benjamin Noval Suarez (Spain) and Maria Okrucinska (Poland) (UCI).
Per Wikipedia (secondary), not confirmed on uci.org: men's under-23 time trial Ryan Gal (Netherlands); women's under-23 road race Viktoria Chladonova (Slovakia); women's under-23 time trial Felicity Wilson-Haffenden (Australia); junior men's road race Benjamin Noval (Spain); junior women's road race Alejandra Neira (Spain).

Elite road race winners, 2023 to 2026

Year and venue	Men	Women
2026, Montreal	Brandon McNulty (USA); Matthews second, Van der Poel third	Demi Vollering (Netherlands); Niewiadoma-Phinney second, Longo Borghini third
2025, Kigali	Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia); Evenepoel second at 1' 28", Ben Healy (Ireland) third at 2' 16"	Magdeleine Vallieres Mill (Canada); Niamh Fisher-Black (New Zealand) second at 23 seconds, Mavi Garcia (Spain) third at 27 seconds
2024, Zurich	Tadej Pogacar; Ben O'Connor (Australia) second at 34 seconds, Van der Poel third at 58 seconds	Lotte Kopecky (Belgium); Chloe Dygert (USA) and Elisa Longo Borghini (Italy) completed the podium
2023, Glasgow	Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands); Wout van Aert and Pogacar more than a minute and a half behind	Lotte Kopecky; seven seconds ahead of Demi Vollering and Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig

All from UCI reports; 2026 women from Kuwait Times and Wikipedia; 2023, and the 2024 women's race, from search summaries of UCI reports.

Elite time trial winners, 2023 to 2026

Year	Men	Women
2026	Remco Evenepoel; Ganna second, Seixas third	Marlen Reusser; Backstedt second, Koch third
2025	Remco Evenepoel, his third in a row; Jay Vine (Australia) second, Ilan Van Wilder third	Marlen Reusser, by 51 seconds from Anna van der Breggen; Demi Vollering third
2024	Remco Evenepoel over 46.1 km; Filippo Ganna second, Edoardo Affini third at 54 seconds	Grace Brown (Australia), 39' 16" over 29.9 km; Vollering second at 16 seconds, Dygert third at 56 seconds
2023, Stirling	Remco Evenepoel; Filippo Ganna second, Joshua Tarling third	Chloe Dygert (USA), her second elite title after 2019, over 36.2 km; Grace Brown closest

All from the UCI; 2025 and 2023 from search summaries of its reports. Ganna's 2024 gap is given two ways by the UCI itself: 6 seconds in its 2024 report, and 7 seconds in a later UCI article seen in a search summary.

What the UCI said about these editions

2025, Kigali, Rwanda: Pogacar attacked with more than 100 km to go and rode the last 77 km alone to his second title in a row. The UCI says he is the first rider to win both the Tour de France and the world road title in two consecutive years, 2024 and 2025. Healy's bronze was Ireland's first men's elite road race medal since Sean Kelly in 1989. Vallieres Mill became Canada's first elite road world champion, and Paula Ostiz won Spain's first women's junior road world title.
2024, Zurich, Switzerland, held jointly with the Para-cycling Road World Championships: Pogacar's solo win, after attacking with more than 100 km left, was Slovenia's first elite rainbow jersey. The UCI says his Giro, Tour and Worlds wins that year made a "Triple Crown" achieved before only by Eddy Merckx (1974) and Stephen Roche (1987). Kopecky won her second title in a row, in rain. Grace Brown became the first rider to win the time trial at the Olympic Games and the Worlds in the same year, and a UCI headline says Australia's mixed relay win gave her a second gold.
2023, Glasgow and Scotland, part of the combined UCI Cycling World Championships for all disciplines: Van der Poel won alone despite crashing with 16 km to go, and Kopecky took her first road world title.

The rules for championship road races

UCI Regulations Part 2, Road Races (version on 1 July 2025), article 2.3.002, sets distances for the World Championships and Olympic Games, subject to the course profile: 250 to 280 km for elite men, 150 to 180 km for elite women and under-23 men, 110 to 140 km for under-23 women and junior men, and 70 to 100 km for junior women. Article 2.2.002 caps the field at 200 riders. Part 2 has been amended since that version, and the later changes were not read.

Where to watch

The UCI published its own list of broadcasters for Montreal 2026, dated 19 September 2026; it is on watching cycling.

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