World Road Championships

The UCI World Road Championships is an annual competition consisting of events for the road race and the individual time trial, for elite men and women and for the under-23 and junior categories, plus a mixed team relay. The Championships is regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and is held in a different city each year. The winner of each event wears the rainbow jersey for the following season.

Winning the road race title in the same year as the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France is known as the Triple Crown of Cycling, a feat achieved only by Eddy Merckx in 1974 and Stephen Roche in 1987.

2026 World Road Championships

The 2026 Championships were held in Montréal, Canada, from 20 to 27 September. The elite titles went as follows.

The men's road race was the race of the week. Over 273.4km and twelve laps of the Mont-Royal circuit, Brandon McNulty went clear with 33km to run and held on by 13 seconds, giving the United States its first elite men's road race world title since 1993. In the women's race, over 180.1km, Demi Vollering outsprinted Katarzyna Niewiadoma to claim the first world title of her career.

Remco Evenepoel won a fourth consecutive men's time trial title, while Marlen Reusser took the women's. Italy, led home by Filippo Ganna and Elisa Longo Borghini, won the mixed team relay.

History and Hosts

A Cycling World championships were first held in 1921, a road race for amateur cyclists. The first professional world championship took place in 1927. The women's road race was introduced in 1958. A men's team time trial for national teams was introduced in 1962 and run until 1994. A trade team time trial for men and women was added in 2012, and in 2019 both were replaced by the mixed team relay that is raced today.

No championships were held between 1939 and 1945 because of the Second World War. The 2033 host has not yet been announced.