{"id":58150,"title":"Cycling World Championships on TV 2026","description":"Rijden's TV guide and broadcast schedule for the 2026 UCI Cycling World Championships held in Montr\u00e9al, Canada.","content":"

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Montr\u00e9al, Canada 20-27 September 2026<\/h3>

\"zewr4slf0uihvhli4yz9yppxwxmayiyjawtswjc7vhax7xgy.png.jpg?w=1140&h=auto\"If you can\u2019t make it to Montr\u00e9al to watch the UCI Road Cycling World Championships, find out how you can keep up with the best action as the world\u2019s top cycling stars race for the World titles in Canada.<\/p>

As well as the full list of official broadcasters across the world, we have the broadcast schedules for the BBC, TNT Sports, HBO Max, CBC, Sporza and VRT.<\/p>

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Third World Championships in Canada<\/h2>

This year will be the third time Canada has hosted the World Championships. What happened at the 2003 and 1974 editions?<\/p>

Hamilton 2003<\/h3>

The 2026 Road Cycling World Championships will be the third held in Canada. The last time it was on Canadian soil was 2003, when Hamilton was the host city. On that occasion, the elite men\u2019s title was won by Igor Astarloa, with Spanish teammate Alejandro Valverde in second place.<\/p>

Both would subsequently be banned for doping offences, although it didn\u2019t affect these results. The men\u2019s time trial was won by David Millar. He was later stripped of the title after he confessed to using EPO, and it was awarded to Australian Michael Rogers.<\/p>

The women\u2019s elite race was a triumph for Swede Susanne Ljungskog, who took home her second consecutive world title. The silver medal went to Mirjam Melchers, who was also handy at cyclocross, and the bronze to Britain\u2019s Nicole Cooke, who was handy at everything and an outspoken critic of dopers.<\/p>

Montr\u00e9al 1974<\/h3>

The first Road World Championships in Canada were also raced in Montr\u00e9al. There were only four events: A professional men\u2019s race won by Eddy Merckx from the eternal second Raymond Poulidor and France\u2019s Mariano Martinez. An amateur men\u2019s race won by Poland\u2019s Janusz Kowalski. A sixty-kilometre (37.5 miles) women\u2019s road race contested by a mere thirty riders and won by Genevi\u00e8ve Gambillon <\/strong><\/a>\u27a6<\/strong><\/a>. The French rider took her second world title and was back at work the next week as a nursing assistant. Incredibly, she\u2019d raced the event with a fractured collarbone, which she\u2019d broken less than two weeks before.<\/p>

No longer part of the World Championships, the 100-kilometre team time trial was contested by amateur national teams. The USSR (Soviet Union) and DDR (East Germany) teams were the acknowledged experts at this discipline, which represented their chance to demonstrate that a utopian socialist republic would better the self-interest of capitalism. Sweden was the winner ahead of the USSR and DDR.<\/p>

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When are the Road Cycling World Championships 2026?<\/h3>

The World Championships open on Sunday, 20 September, with the elite men\u2019s and women\u2019s time trials and close on Sunday, 27 September, with the elite men\u2019s road race.<\/p>

The World Championships will be held in Montr\u00e9al, the largest city in the French-speaking province of Quebec, between September 20 and 27, 2026.<\/p>

French settlers from La Fl\u00e8che in the Loire Valley first named their new town, founded in 1642, Ville Marie after the Virgin Mary. The current form of the name, Montr\u00e9al, is believed to be derived from Mount Royal (Mont Royal in French), the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city.<\/p>

Sunday 20 September<\/strong><\/p>