The Men's road race of the 2026 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 27 September 2026 in Montreal, Canada. It was the 93rd edition of the championship, for which Tadej Pogačar of Slovenia was the defending champion, having won in 2025. Due to injuries sustained at the 2026 Vuelta a España, Pogačar did not defend his title.
The race was won by United States rider Brandon McNulty, beating Australian rider Michael Matthews and Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel by 13 seconds after escaping with around remaining.
Course The race covered with of total elevation gain. Starting at Quartier DIX30 in Brossard, the course passed through several municipalities in the Montérégie region before crossing the Samuel De Champlain Bridge to reach the finishing circuit in downtown Montréal.
The circuit was in length around Mount Royal, with of elevation gain per lap. The circuit included the Voie Camillien-Houde climb ( at 6.2% average gradient), the Chemin de la Polytechnique with sections exceeding 11% gradient, and a false flat rising along Avenue du Parc, which served as the finish line. The circuit would be tackled 12 times. The circuit was similar to that used by the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, as well as previous cycling events in Montréal such as the 1974 UCI Road World Championships and 1976 Summer Olympics.
Final classification
Tissot Timing - UCI Men's elite road race - Results
Rank Athlete Nation Time Brandon McNulty 6h 17' 04" Michael Matthews + 13" Mathieu van der Poel s.t. 4 Quinn Simmons s.t. 5 Isaac del Toro + 14" 6 Mads Pedersen s.t. 7 Tom Pidcock s.t. 8 Matteo Jorgenson s.t. 9 Giulio Ciccone s.t. 10 Ben Healy s.t. 11 Mauro Schmid + 22" 12 Remco Evenepoel + 25" 13 Juan Ayuso + 2' 08" 14 Stefan Küng + 2' 19" 15 Paul Seixas + 2' 47" 16 Jørgen Nordhagen + 3' 09" 17 Oscar Onley s.t. 18 Christian Scaroni + 3' 12" 19 Mikkel Frølich Honoré + 3' 14" 20 Davide Piganzoli + 3' 20" 21 Primož Roglič + 3' 29" 22 Michael Valgren + 4' 20" 23 Toms Skujiņš + 4' 25" 24 Anthon Charmig s.t. 25 Tiesj Benoot + 4' 31" 26 Pavel Sivakov + 4' 37" 27 Santiago Buitrago + 4' 41" 28 Wout van Aert + 5' 11" 29 Maxim Van Gils s.t. 30 Andreas Kron + 5' 46" 31 Adam Yates + 6' 37" 32 Michael Leonard + 6' 39" 33 Tobias Halland Johannessen + 6' 48" 34 Guillermo Thomas Silva s.t. 35 Michael Woods s.t. 36 Jhonatan Narváez s.t. 37 Aleksandr Vlasov Individual Neutral Athletes s.t. 38 Georg Zimmermann s.t. 39 Byron Munton s.t. 40 Michael Storer s.t. 41 Menno Huising + 6' 51" 42 Jack Haig + 6' 53" 43 Igor Arrieta s.t. 44 Nicolas Prodhomme s.t. 45 Nickolas Zukowsky s.t. 46 Marcel Camprubí + 7' 02" 47 Florian Lipowitz + 7' 04" 48 Riley Sheehan + 10' 00" 49 Corbin Strong s.t. 50 Michał Kwiatkowski s.t. 51 Tobias Foss s.t. 52 Embret Svestad-Bårdseng s.t. 53 Jai Hindley s.t. 54 Felix Großschartner s.t. 55 Lorenzo Mark Finn s.t. 56 Nelson Oliveira + 13' 11" 57 Lawrence Warbasse + 15' 35" 58 Ivo Oliveira s.t.
Status Rider Nation DNF Ali Al Shaikhahmed DNF João Almeida DNF Amir Arslan Ansari Refugee Cycling Team DNF DNF Tiago Antunes DNF Bruno Armirail DNF Nikiforos Arvanitou DNF Kasper Asgreen DNF Henrique Avancini DNF DNF Maral-Erdene Batmunkh DNF Alex Baudin DNF DNF Markel Beloki DNF Alberto Bettiol DNF Stefan Bissegger DNF Mikkel Bjerg DNF Guillaume Boivin DNF Marco Brenner DNF Edgar Cadena DNF Ulises Alfredo Castillo DNF Mattia Cattaneo DNF DNF Fabio Christen DNF Jan Christen DNF Pier-André Côté DNF Nico Denz DNF Mark Donovan DNF Pascal Eenkhoorn DNF Felix Engelhardt DNF José Antonio Escarcega DNF Afonso Eulálio DNF Tilen Finkšt DNF Eder Frayre DNF Mateusz Gajdulewicz DNF Felix Gall DNF DNF Raúl García Pierna DNF Biniam Girmay DNF Gal Glivar DNF Matevž Govekar DNF DNF Quinten Hermans DNF Sergio Higuita DNF Marc Hirschi DNF Daan Hoole DNF Kaden Hopkins DNF Hugo Houle DNF Samandar Janikulov DNF Jordan Jegat DNF Christofer Jurado DNF Jakub Kaczmarek DNF Patrick Konrad DNF Vladimír Kováčik DNF Søren Kragh Andersen DNF Merhawi Kudus DNF Anton Kuzmin DNF Jordan Labrosse DNF Victor Langellotti DNF Andreas Leknessund DNF Bart Lemmen DNF Li You DNF Emīls Liepiņš DNF Daniil Marukhin DNF Enric Mas DNF DNF Alexandre Mayer DNF Jamie Meehan DNF Luka Mezgec DNF Andrea Mifsud DNF Madis Mihkels DNF Andreas Miltiadis DNF DNF Matej Mohorič DNF Bauke Mollema DNF António Morgado DNF Ryan Mullen DNF Henok Mulubrhan DNF DNF Pavel Novák DNF Thibau Nys DNF Ben O'Connor DNF Ben Oliver DNF DNF Jakub Otruba DNF Mathijs Paasschens DNF Valentin Paret-Peintre DNF Piotr Pękala DNF Giulio Pellizzari DNF Finlay Pickering DNF Laurence Pithie DNF Mārtiņš Pluto DNF DNF Sean Quinn DNF Nairo Quintana DNF Darren Rafferty DNF Nadav Raisberg DNF Brandon Rivera DNF Manuel Rodas DNF Vicente Rojas DNF Iván Romeo DNF Maximilian Schachmann DNF Alec Segaert DNF James Shaw DNF Artem Shmidt DNF Anders Skaarseth DNF Jakob Söderqvist DNF DNF Harold Tejada DNF Callum Thornley DNF Jan Tratnik DNF Matteo Trentin DNF Luke Tuckwell DNF Mathias Vacek DNF DNF Attila Valter DNF Tim van Dijke DNF Mardoqueo Vásquez DNF Kevin Vermaerke DNF Gianni Vermeersch DNF Carlos Verona DNF DNF Fred Wright
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