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: 17 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
Jack Haig, Jai Hindley, Michael Matthews, Ben O'Connor, Michael Storer, Luke Tuckwell

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, Pavel Sivakov, Bruno Armirail, Jordan Labrosse, Valentin Paret-Peintre, Nicolas Prodhomme, Alex Baudin

Great Britain
Tom Pidcock, Oscar Onley, Adam Yates, Mark Donovan, Finlay Pickering, James Shaw, Callum Thornley, Fred Wright

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
Felix Gall, Felix Großschartner, Patrick Konrad

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, Maximilian Schachmann, 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
João Almeida, Afonso Eulálio, Ivo Oliveira, Tiago Antunes, Nelson Oliveira, António Morgado

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

Countries with 5 riders

Eritrea
Biniam Girmay, Merhawi Kudus, Amanuel Ghebreighzabhier, Henok Mulubrhan, Natnael Tesfatsion

Kazakhstan
Yevgeniy Fedorov, Daniil Marukhin

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

Estonia
Madis Mikhels

Latvia
Kristiāns Belohvosciks, Emīls Liepins, Mārtiņš Pluto, Toms Skujins

Poland
Michal Kwiatkowski, Mateusz Gajdulewicz, Jakub Kaczmarek, Piotr Pekala

Slovakia
Martin Svrcek

Countries with 2 riders
Luxemburg
Arthur Kluckers, Arno Wallenborn

Uruguay
Guillermo Thomas Silva, Eric Antonio Fagúndez

Venezuela
Orluis Aular, Francisco Joel Peñuela

Countries with 1 rider
Algeria
Oussama Abdellah Mimouni

Belize
Derrick Chavarria

Bermuda
Nicholas Narraway, Kaden Hopkins

Brazil
Henrique da Silva Avancini

China
You Li

Chili
Vicente Rojas

Costa Rica
Luis Daniel Oses

Cyprus
Andreas Miltiadis

Dominica
Konath Baron

Greece
Nikiforos Arvanitou

Grenada

Guatemala
Manuel Rodas, Juan Mardoqueo Vásquez

Guinea-Bissau
Gil Landim Gomes

Guyana

Honduras
Fred Matute

Hungary
Attila Valter

Individual/neutral

Israel
Nadav Raisberg

Japan
Jo Hashikawa

Kenya

Mali

Mauritius
Alexandre Mayer

Monaco
Victor Langellotti

Mongolia
Maral-Erdene Batmunkh

Panama
Christofer Robín Jurado

Romania
Iustin-Ioan Vaidian

São Tomé and Príncipe

Sierra Leone

Senegal

Serbia
Mihajlo Stolic
Sweden
Jakob Söderqvist

South Africa
Byron Munton

Thailand
Athit Poulard

Turkey

Uganda

Ukraine
Heorhii Antonenko

Uzbekistan
Samandar Janikulov