The UCI Road World Championships will return to cycling-historic Montreal from September 20 to 27 in 2026, 52 years after Eddy Merckx and Geneviève Gambillon were crowned world champions in what was the first-ever Road Worlds held outside Europe in 1974.
It will mark the third time the sport’s centre-piece event is held in Canada, having also taken place in Haliton in 2003.
The 2026 UCI Road World Championships will also be the city’s largest sporting event since the 1976 Olympic Games, with 13 events – time trials, road races, and mixed relay -bringing together nearly 1,000 cyclists across junior, under-23 and elite categories.
The two elite road races – 180km for the elite women and 273.2km for the elite men – will start in Brossard, Montérégie, before passing through seven other municipalities in the region and crossing the Samuel-De-Champlain Bridge to reach the final Mount Royal circuit.
The elite women and elite men will compete in the same individual time trials that will take on the same 39.9km circuit around Montréal, featuring the Gilles-Villeneuve Circuit and Parc Jean-Drapeau, before crossing the Concorde Bridge into the city centre.
Elite women’s individual time trial, 39.9km
The elite women’s individual time trial will kick off the 2026 UCI Road World Championships with a 39.9km route in Montreal. The route will feature 195m of elevation.
The technical but mostly flat route will begin in Montreal and race through the city streets and along the famed St Lawrence River, cross the Samuel-De-Champlain Bridge, orbit the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve – a famous motor-racing circuit that hosts the annual Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix – cross back over the…
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