Montréal unveils 2026 Worlds courses
Organizers of the 2026 UCI Road World Championships unveiled courses for the event, scheduled for late September. The road courses keep much of the familiar Grand Prix de Montréal circuits, but with the addition of a long opening loop.
The men's and women's road races will start in Brossard, across Lac Saint-Louis from Montréal, with a mostly flat first third before entering the hilly Mont Royal finishing circuits. The elite men will do 12 laps and the women eight laps, which include the Camillien-Houde climb (2.3 km at 6.2% average). The finish is on a false flat after a descent.
Road courses for the Elite men (left) and women for the 2026 UCI Road World Championships in Montréal, Canada.
The men's race will be 273.2 km while the women's race will break another distance record at 180 km. After the climb-fest of Kigali, Rwanda in 2025, total elevation gain is more manageable with 2,502 meters of climbing for the women and 3,720 m for the men. Full courses for all road and time trial events are now posted. [Montréal 2026]
