Final 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
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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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Final Startlist Men's Elite Road Race - Montreal World Championships
| Slovenia | |
| 1 | Finkšt, Tilen |
| 2 | Glivar, Gal |
| 3 | Govekar, Matevž |
| 4 | Mezgec, Luka |
| 5 | Mohorič, Matej |
| 6 | Roglič, Primož |
| 7 | Tratnik, Jan |
| Belgium | |
| 8 | Benoot, Tiesj |
| 9 | Evenepoel, Remco |
| 10 | Hermans, Quinten |
| 11 | Nys, Thibau |
| 12 | Segaert, Alec |
| 13 | Aert, Wout van |
| 14 | Gils, Maxim Van |
| 15 | Vermeersch, Gianni |
| France | |
| 16 | Armirail, Bruno |
| 17 | Baudin, Alex |
| 18 | Jegat, Jordan |
| 19 | Labrosse, Jordan |
| 20 | Paret-Peintre, Valentin |
| 21 | Prodhomme, Nicolas |
| 22 | Seixas, Paul |
| 23 | Sivakov, Pavel |
| Denmark | |
| 24 | Asgreen, Kasper |
| 25 | Bjerg, Mikkel |
| 26 | Charmig, Anthon |
| 27 | Honoré, Mikkel |
| 28 | Andersen, Søren Kragh |
| 29 | Kron, Andreas |
| 30 | Pedersen, Mads |
| 31 | Valgren, Michael |
| Italy | |
| 32 | Bettiol, Alberto |
| 33 | Cattaneo, Mattia |
| 34 | Ciccone, Giulio |
| 35 | Finn, Lorenzo |
| 36 | Pellizzari, Giulio |
| 37 | Piganzoli, Davide |
| 38 | Scaroni, Christian |
| 39 | Trentin, Matteo |
| United Kingdom | |
| 40 | Donovan, Mark |
| 41 | Onley, Oscar |
| 42 | Pickering, Finlay |
| 43 | Pidcock, Tom |
| 44 | Shaw, James |
| 45 | Thornley, Callum |
| 46 | Wright, Fred |
| 47 | Yates, Adam |
| Spain | |
| 48 | Arrieta, Igor |
| 49 | Ayuso, Juan |
| 50 | Beloki, Markel |
| 51 | Camprubí, Marcel |
| 52 | García, Raúl |
| 53 | Mas, Enric |
| 54 | Romeo, Iván |
| 55 | Verona, Carlos |
| Netherlands | |
| 56 | Eenkhoorn, Pascal |
| 57 | Hoole, Daan |
| 58 | Huising, Menno |
| 59 | Lemmen, Bart |
| 60 | Mollema, Bauke |
| 61 | Paasschens, Mathijs |
| 62 | Poel, Mathieu van der |
| 63 | Dijke, Tim van |
| United States | |
| 64 | Jorgenson, Matteo |
| 65 | McNulty, Brandon |
| 66 | Quinn, Sean |
| 67 | Sheehan, Riley |
| 68 | Shmidt, Artem |
| 69 | Simmons, Quinn |
| 70 | Vermaerke, Kevin |
| 71 | Warbasse, Larry |
| Norway | |
| 72 | Foss, Tobias |
| 73 | Johannessen, Tobias |
| 74 | Leknessund, Andreas |
| 75 | Nordhagen, Jørgen |
| 76 | Skaarseth, Anders |
| 77 | Svestad-Bårdseng, Embret |
| Australia | |
| 78 | Haig, Jack |
| 79 | Hindley, Jai |
| 80 | Matthews, Michael |
| 81 | O'Connor, Ben |
| 82 | Storer, Michael |
| 83 | Tuckwell, Luke |
| Mexico | |
| 84 | Cadena, Edgar |
| 85 | Castillo, Ulises Alfredo |
| 86 | Del Toro, Isaac |
| 87 | Escarcega, José Antonio |
| 88 | Frayre, Eder |
| 89 | Garcia, Carlos Alfonso |
| Germany | |
| 90 | Brenner, Marco |
| 91 | Denz, Nico |
| 92 | Engelhardt, Felix |
| 93 | Lipowitz, Florian |
| 94 | Schachmann, Maximilian |
| 95 | Zimmermann, Georg |
| Swiss | |
| 96 | Bissegger, Stefan |
| 97 | Christen, Fabio |
| 98 | Christen, Jan |
| 99 | Hirschi, Marc |
| 100 | Küng, Stefan |
| 101 | Schmid, Mauro |
| Colombia | |
| 102 | Buitrago, Santiago |
| 103 | Higuita, Sergio |
| 104 | Paredes, Wilmar |
| 105 | Quintana, Nairo |
| 106 | Rivera, Brandon |
| 107 | Tejada, Harold |
| Ecuador | |
| 108 | Narváez, Jhonatan |
| New Zealand | |
| 109 | Oliver, Ben |
| 110 | Pithie, Laurence |
| 111 | Strong, Corbin |
| Austria | |
| 112 | Gall, Felix |
| 113 | Grossschartner, Felix |
| 114 | Konrad, Patrick |
| Eritrea | |
| 115 | Ghebreigzabhier, Amanuel |
| 116 | Girmay, Biniam |
| 117 | Kudus, Merhawi |
| 118 | Mulubrhan, Henok |
| Portugal | |
| 119 | Almeida, João |
| 120 | Antunes, Tiago |
| 121 | Eulálio, Afonso |
| 122 | Oliveira, Ivo |
| 123 | Oliveira, Nelson |
| 124 | Morgado, António |
| Czech Republic | |
| 125 | Novák, Pavel |
| 126 | Otruba, Jakub |
| 127 | Vacek, Mathias |
| Uruguay | |
| 128 | Silva, Thomas |
| Ireland | |
| 129 | Healy, Ben |
| 130 | Meehan, Jamie |
| 131 | Mullen, Ryan |
| 132 | Rafferty, Darren |
| Canada | |
| 133 | Boivin, Guillaume |
| 134 | Côté, Pier-André |
| 135 | Houle, Hugo |
| 136 | Leonard, Michael |
| 137 | Woods, Michael |
| 138 | Zukowsky, Nick |
| Slovakia | |
| 139 | Kovacik, Vladimir |
| Kazakhstan | |
| 140 | Kuzmin, Anton |
| 141 | Marukhin, Daniil |
| Poland | |
| 142 | Gajdulewicz, Mateusz |
| 143 | Kaczmarek, Jakub |
| 144 | Kwiatkowski, Michal |
| 145 | Pekala, Piotr |
| Latvia | |
| 146 | Belohvoščiks, Kristiāns |
| 147 | Liepiņš, Emīls |
| 148 | Pluto, Mārtiņš |
| 149 | Skujiņš, Toms |
| Estonia | |
| 150 | Mihkels, Madis |
| Russia | |
| 151 | Vlasov, Aleksandr |
| South Africa | |
| 152 | Munton, Byron |
| Ukraine | |
| 153 | Antonenko, Heorhii |
| Costa Rica | |
| 154 | Oses, Luis Daniel |
| Serbia | |
| 155 | Stolić, Mihaljo |
| Brasil | |
| 156 | Avancini, Henrique |
| Algeria | |
| 157 | Mimouni, Oussama |
| Panama | |
| 158 | Jurado, Christofer |
| Mongolia | |
| 159 | Batmunkh, Maral-Erdene |
| Sweden | |
| 160 | Söderqvist, Jakob |
| Uzbekistan | |
| 161 | Janikulov, Samandar |
| Guatemala | |
| 162 | Rodas, Manuel |
| 163 | Vásquez, Juan Mardoqueo |
| Hungary | |
| 164 | Valter, Attila |
| Greece | |
| 165 | Arvanitou, Nikiforos |
| Luxembourg | |
| 166 | Wallenborn, Arno |
| Israel | |
| 167 | Raisberg, Nadav |
| China | |
| 168 | Li, You |
| Mauritius | |
| 169 | Mayer, Alexandre |
| Romania | |
| 170 | Vaidian, Iustin-Ioan |
| Belize | |
| 171 | Chavarria, Derrick |
| Japan | |
| 172 | Hashikawa, Jo |
| Thailand | |
| 173 | Poulard, Baptiste |
| Cyprus | |
| 174 | Miltiadis, Andreas |
| Chile | |
| 175 | Rojas, Vicente |
| Bermuda | |
| 176 | Hopkins, Kaden |
| 177 | Narraway, Nicholas |
| Malta | |
| 178 | Mifsud, Andrea |
| Guinea-Bissau | |
| 179 | Gomes, Gil |
| Honduras | |
| 180 | Matute, Fredd |
| Monaco | |
| 181 | Langellotti, Victor |
| Dominica | |
| 182 | Baron, Kohath |
| Saudi Arabia | |
| 183 | Al Shaikhahmed, Ali |
| Afghanistan | |
| 184 | Ansari, Amir |
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