Startlist World Championships 2026 Elite Men's Road Race - Riders: Remco Evenepoel, Wout van Aert, Mathieu van der Poel, Isaac del Toro, Tom Pidcock, Paul Seixas and more
CyclingThursday, 17 September 2026 at 12:30
The elite men's road race at the 2026 World Championships takes place in Montreal on Sunday, 27 September, with a huge field set to battle for the rainbow jersey over one of the hardest one-day courses of the season.
With Tadej Pogacar absent, the race opens up considerably around a group containing Remco Evenepoel, Wout van Aert, Mathieu van der Poel, Isaac del Toro, Tom Pidcock and Paul Seixas.
The riders face 273.7 kilometres and 3,803 metres of climbing, with 12 laps around Mount Royal after the approach into Montreal. Below, you can find the startlist for the 2026 World Championships elite men's road race.
Evenepoel, Van Aert and Van der Poel headline stacked field
Belgium arrive with two of the biggest names on the startlist in Evenepoel and Van Aert, backed by Tiesj Benoot, Quinten Hermans, Thibau Nys, Alec Segaert, Maxim Van Gils and Gianni Vermeersch.
The Netherlands will be led by Van der Poel, who returns to the World Championships road race having won the rainbow jersey in Glasgow in 2023 and taken bronze in Zurich a year later.
Isaac del Toro will also attract plenty of attention after winning the recent GP Montreal on the same roads, where he beat Seixas into second. France have built their team around the 19-year-old, with Pavel Sivakov, Valentin Paret-Peintre, Nicolas Prodhomme and Alex Baudin among those alongside him.
Great Britain bring Tom Pidcock, Adam Yates and Oscar Onley, while Italy arrive with Giulio Ciccone, Giulio Pellizzari, Alberto Bettiol, Christian Scaroni and teenage U23 world champion Lorenzo Finn among their eight.
Tadej Pogacar won the World Championship in 2024 and 2025, but misses the 2026 edition
Slovenia will be without Pogacar but can still call on Primoz Roglic, Matej Mohoric and Jan Tratnik.
There is plenty of depth beyond the most obvious names too. Richard Carapaz and Jhonatan Narvaez line up for Ecuador, Mads Pedersen leads a strong Danish selection, Joao Almeida features for Portugal and the United States bring Quinn Simmons, Matteo Jorgenson, Brandon McNulty and Neilson Powless.
Ben Healy, Felix Gall, Marc Hirschi, Mauro Schmid, Biniam Girmay, Santiago Buitrago, Sergio Higuita, Michael Matthews, Ben O'Connor and Florian Lipowitz are also included in a field packed with riders capable of making an impact in Montreal.
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Startlist Men's Elite Road Race - Montreal World Championships
| Algeria | |
| Oussama Abdellah Mimouni | |
| Australia | |
| Jack Haig | |
| Jai Hindley | |
| Michael Matthews | |
| Ben O'Connor | |
| Michael Storer | |
| Luke Tuckwell | |
| Austria | |
| Felix Gall | |
| Felix Grossschartner | |
| Patrick Konrad | |
| Belgium | |
| Remco Evenepoel | |
| Wout van Aert | |
| Tiesj Benoot | |
| Quinten Hermans | |
| Thibau Nys | |
| Alec Segaert | |
| Maxim Van Gils | |
| Gianni Vermeersch | |
| Bermuda | |
| Kaden Hopkins | |
| Nicholas Narraway | |
| Belize | |
| Derrick Chavarria | |
| Brazil | |
| Henrique da Silva Avancini | |
| Canada | |
| Derek Gee-West | |
| Hugo Houle | |
| Michael Leonard | |
| Michael Woods | |
| Nickolas Zukowsky | |
| Pier-Andre Cote | |
| Chile | |
| Vicente Rojas | |
| China | |
| You Li | |
| Colombia | |
| Nairo Quintana | |
| Brandon Smith Rivera | |
| Harold Tejada | |
| Santiago Buitrago | |
| Sergio Higuita | |
| Wilmar Andres Paredes | |
| Costa Rica | |
| Luis Daniel Oses | |
| Cyprus | |
| Andreas Miltiadis | |
| Czech Republic | |
| Mathias Vacek | |
| Jakub Otruba | |
| Pavel Novak | |
| Denmark | |
| Mikkel Frolich Honore | |
| Kasper Asgreen | |
| Mikkel Bjerg | |
| Mads Pedersen | |
| Andreas Kron | |
| Michael Valgren | |
| Soren Kragh Andersen | |
| Anthon Charmig | |
| Dominica | |
| Kohath Baron | |
| Ecuador | |
| Richard Carapaz | |
| Jhonatan Narvaez | |
| Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda | |
| Jefferson Alexander Cepeda | |
| Eritrea | |
| Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier | |
| Biniam Girmay | |
| Merhawi Kudus | |
| Henok Mulubrhan | |
| Natnael Tesfatsion | |
| Estonia | |
| Madis Mihkels | |
| France | |
| Paul Seixas | |
| Pavel Sivakov | |
| Bruno Armirail | |
| Jordan Labrosse | |
| Valentin Paret-Peintre | |
| Nicolas Prodhomme | |
| Alex Baudin | |
| Jordan Jegat | |
| Germany | |
| Florian Lipowitz | |
| Marco Brenner | |
| Georg Zimmermann | |
| Felix Engelhardt | |
| Nico Denz | |
| Maximilian Schachmann | |
| Great Britain | |
| Tom Pidcock | |
| Mark Donovan | |
| Oscar Onley | |
| Finlay Pickering | |
| James Shaw | |
| Callum Thornley | |
| Fred Wright | |
| Adam Yates | |
| Guinea-Bissau | |
| Gil Landim Gomes | |
| Greece | |
| Nikiforos Arvanitou | |
| Guatemala | |
| Manuel Rodas | |
| Juan Mardoqueo Vasquez | |
| Honduras | |
| Fredd Matute | |
| Hungary | |
| Attila Valter | |
| Ireland | |
| Ben Healy | |
| Darren Rafferty | |
| Jamie Meehan | |
| Ryan Mullen | |
| Israel | |
| Nadav Raisberg | |
| Italy | |
| Alberto Bettiol | |
| Mattia Cattaneo | |
| Giulio Ciccone | |
| Lorenzo Mark Finn | |
| Giulio Pellizzari | |
| Davide Piganzoli | |
| Christian Scaroni | |
| Matteo Trentin | |
| Japan | |
| Jo Hashikawa | |
| Kazakhstan | |
| Anton Kuzmin | |
| Daniil Marukhin | |
| Latvia | |
| Kristians Belohvosciks | |
| Emils Liepins | |
| Martins Pluto | |
| Toms Skujins | |
| Luxembourg | |
| Arno Wallenborn | |
| Arthur Kluckers | |
| Mauritius | |
| Alexandre Mayer | |
| Mexico | |
| Isaac Del Toro | |
| Eder Frayre | |
| Edgar David Cadena | |
| Ulises Alfredo Castillo | |
| Jose Antonio Escarcega | |
| Carlos Alfonso Garcia | |
| Monaco | |
| Victor Langellotti | |
| Mongolia | |
| Maral-Erdene Batmunkh | |
| Netherlands | |
| Mathieu van der Poel | |
| Daan Hoole | |
| Bart Lemmen | |
| Tim van Dijke | |
| Bauke Mollema | |
| Pascal Eenkhoorn | |
| Menno Huising | |
| Mathijs Paasschens | |
| New Zealand | |
| Ben Oliver | |
| Corbin Strong | |
| Finn Fisher-Black | |
| George Bennett | |
| Laurence Pithie | |
| Norway | |
| Tobias Halland Johannessen | |
| Tobias Foss | |
| Embret Svestad-Bardseng | |
| Jorgen Nordhagen | |
| Andreas Leknessund | |
| Anders Skaarseth | |
| Panama | |
| Christofer Robin Jurado | |
| Poland | |
| Michal Kwiatkowski | |
| Mateusz Gajdulewicz | |
| Jakub Kaczmarek | |
| Piotr Pekala | |
| Portugal | |
| Afonso Eulalio | |
| Ivo Oliveira | |
| Tiago Antunes | |
| Nelson Oliveira | |
| Antonio Morgado | |
| Joao Almeida | |
| Romania | |
| Iustin-Ioan Vaidian | |
| Saudi Arabia | |
| Ali Al Shaikhahmed | |
| Serbia | |
| Mihajlo Stolic | |
| Slovakia | |
| Martin Svrcek | |
| Slovenia | |
| Tilen Finkst | |
| Gal Glivar | |
| Matevz Govekar | |
| Luka Mezgec | |
| Matej Mohoric | |
| Jan Tratnik | |
| Primoz Roglic | |
| Jakob Omrzel | |
| South Africa | |
| Byron Munton | |
| Spain | |
| Juan Ayuso | |
| Ivan Romeo | |
| Raul Garcia Pierna | |
| Carlos Verona | |
| Igor Arrieta | |
| Markel Beloki | |
| Enric Mas | |
| Marcel Camprubi | |
| Sweden | |
| Jakob Soderqvist | |
| Switzerland | |
| Fabio Christen | |
| Jan Christen | |
| Marc Hirschi | |
| Mauro Schmid | |
| Stefan Bissegger | |
| Stefan Kung | |
| Thailand | |
| Athit Poulard | |
| Ukraine | |
| Heorhii Antonenko | |
| United States | |
| Quinn Simmons | |
| Matteo Jorgenson | |
| Brandon McNulty | |
| Neilson Powless | |
| Sean Quinn | |
| Artem Shmidt | |
| Kevin Vermaerke | |
| Larry Warbasse | |
| Uruguay | |
| Eric Antonio Fagundez | |
| Guillermo Thomas Silva | |
| Uzbekistan | |
| Samandar Janikulov | |
| Venezuela | |
| Orluis Aular | |
| Francisco Joel Penuela | |
| Individual Neutral Athlete | |
| Aleksandr Vlasov |
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