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: 27 September - final start list

Countries with 8 riders

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

Denmark
Søren Kragh Andersen, Mads Pedersen, Kasper Asgreen, Michael Valgren, Mikkel Honoré, Mikkel Bjerg, Andreas Kron, Anthon Charmig

France
Paul Seixas, Pavel Sivakov, Bruno Armirail, Jordan Labrosse, Valentin Paret-Peintre, Nicolas Prodhomme, Alex Baudin, Jordan Jegat

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, Mattia Cattaneo, Davide Piganzoli, Christian Scaroni, Lorenzo Finn

Netherlands
Mathieu van der Poel, Bauke Mollema, Tim van Dijke, Daan Hoole, 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, Matteo Jorgenson, Brandon McNulty, Kevin Vermaerke, Larry Warbasse, Artem Shmidt, Sean Quinn, Riley Sheehan

Country with 7 riders

Slovenia
Primoz Roglic, Matej Mohoric, Tilen Finkst, Gal Glivar, Matevz Govekar, Luka Mezgec, Jan Tratnik

Countries with 6 riders

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

Canada
Michael Woods, Hugo Houle, Michael Leonard, Nickolas Zukowsky, Pier-André Côté, Guillaume Boivin

Colombia
Nairo Quintana, Santiago Buitrago, Sergio Higuita, Brandon Smith Rivera, Harold Tejada, Wilmar Andres Paredes

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

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

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

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

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

Countries with 4 riders

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

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

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

Poland
Michal Kwiatkowski, Piotr Pekala, Jakob Kazcmarek, Mateusz Gajdulewicz

Countries with 3 riders

Austria
Felix Gall, Felix Großschartner, Patrick Konrad

Czech Republic
Mathias Vacek, Jakob Otruba, Pavel Novák

New Zealand
Corbin Strong, Laurence Pithie, Ben Oliver

Countries with 2 riders

Bermuda
Nicholas Narraway, Kaden Hopkins

Guatemala
Manuel Rodas, Juan Mardoqueo Vásquez

Kazakhstan
Anton Kuzmin, Daniil Marukhin

Countries with 1 rider

Algeria
Oussama Abdellah Mimouni

Belize
Derrick Chavarria

Brazil
Henrique da Silva Avancini

Chili
Vicente Rojas

China
You Li

Costa Rica
Luis Daniel Oses

Cyprus
Andreas Miltiadis

Dominica
Konath Baron

Ecuador
Jhonatan Narváez

Estonia
Madis Mikhels

Greece
Nikiforos Arvanitou

Guinea-Bissau
Gil Landim Gomes

Honduras
Fred Matute

Hungary
Attila Valter

Individual/neutral
Aleksandr Vlasov

Israel
Nadav Raisberg

Japan
Jo Hashikawa

Luxembourg
Arno Wallenborn

Malta
Andrea Mifsud

Mauritius
Alexandre Mayer

Monaco
Victor Langellotti

Mongolia
Maral-Erdene Batmunkh

Panama
Christofer Robín Jurado

Refugee Cycling Team
Amir Arsalan Ansari

Romania
Iustin-Ioan Vaidian

Saudi Arabia
Ali Al Shaikahmed

Serbia
Mihajlo Stolic

Slovakia
Vladimir Kovacik

South Africa
Byron Munton

Sweden
Jakob Söderqvist

Thailand
Athit Poulard

Ukrain
Heorhii Antonenko

Uruguay
Guillermo Thomas Silva

Uzbekistan
Samandar Janikulov