World Cycling Championships 2026: Riders Road Race – men

fotobureau Cor VosMathieu van der Poel, Remco Evenepoel and Mads Pedersen will be looking to reclaim the rainbow jersey in a field that includes Wout van Aert, Giulio Ciccone, Ben Healy, Juan Ayuso and Richard Carapaz. Cyclingstage.com brings you the start list for the 93rd Road World Championships.

Published: 2 September 2026
Last updated: 10 September

Country with 9 riders
Slovenia
Primoz Roglic, Jakob Omrzel, Matej Mohoric, Tilen Finkst, Gal Glivar, Matevz Govekar, Luka Mezgec, Jan Tratnik

Countries with 8 riders
Australia

Belgium
Remco Evenepoel, Wout van Aert, Thibau Nys, Maxim Van Gils. Tiesje Benoot, Alec Segaert, Gianni Vermeersch, Quinten Hermans

Denmark
Mattias Skjelmose, Søren Kragh Andersen, Mads Pedersen, Michael Valgren, Mikkel Honoré, Mikkel Bjerg, Andreas Kron

France
Paul Seixas

Great Britain

Italy
Alberto Bettiol, Giulio Ciccone, Giulio Pellizzari, Matteo Trentin, Diego Ulissi, Mattia Cattaneo, Davide Piganzoli, Christian Scaroni, Matteo Sobrero

Netherlands
Mathieu van der Poel, Bauke Mollema, Tim van Dijke, Menno Huising, Mathijs Paasschens, Pascal Eenkhoorn, Bart Lemmen

Spain
Juan Ayuso, Enric Mas, Iván Romeo, Marcel Camprubí, Markel Beloki, Igor Arrieta, Carlos Verona, Raúl García Pierna

USA
Quinn Simmons, Neilson powless, Mattao Jorgenson, Brandon McNulty, Kevin Vermaerke, Larry Warbasse, Artem Shmidt

Countries with 6 riders
Austria

Canada
Derek Gee-West, Michael Woods, Hugo Houle, Michael Leonard, Nickolas Zukowsky, Pier-André Côté

Colombia

Ecuador
Richard Carapaz, Jonhatan Narváez, Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda, Jefferson Alexander Cepeda

Ireland
Ben Healy, Jamie Meehan, Ryan Mullen, Darren Rafferty

Germany
Florian Lipowitz, Marco Brenner, Georg Zimmermann, Felix Engelhardt, Nico Denz

Mexico
Isaac del Toro, Ulises Alfredo Castillo, Tomas Aquirre Garza, Carlos Alfonso García, José Antonio Escarcega, Edgar David Cadena, Eder Frayre

New Zealand
George Bennett, Finn Fisher-Black, Ben Oliver, Corbin Strong, Josh Kench, Laurence Pithie

Norway
Tobias Halland Johannessen, Andreas Leknessund, Tobias Foss, Embret Svestad-Bårdseng, Jørgen Nordhagen, Anders Skaarseth

Portugal
Afonso Eulálio

Switzerland
Stefan Küng, Stefan Bissegger, Marc Hirschi, Jan Christen, Mauro Schmid, Fabio Christen,

Teams with 5 riders

Eritrea
Merhawi Kudus

Kazakhstan
Yevgeniy Fedorov

Countries with 4 riders
Czech Republic
Mathias Vacek, Jakob Otruba, Pavel Novák

Estonia

Latvia

Poland
Michal Kwiatkowski

Slovakia

Uruguay

Venezuela

Countries with 1 rider
Algeria

Belize

Brazil

China

Costa Rica

Greece

Grenada

Guatemala

Guyana

Hungary

Individual/neutral

Israel

Japan
Jo Hashikawa

Kenya

Mali

Mauritius
Alexandre Mayer

Monaco
Victor Langellotti

Mongolia

Panama

Romania

São Tomé and Príncipe

Sierra Leone

Senegal

Serbia

Sweden
Jakob Söderqvist

South Africa
Byron Munton

Thailand

Turkey

Uganda

Ukraine

Uzbekistan

Venezuela