Four days, 53 titles and 351 riders entered from 48 nations: the 2026 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships are over. Huntsville, Alabama handed out the last rainbow jerseys of the road season on Monday, the first time these championships had been held in the United States since Greenville in 2014.
Twenty-six time trials on Friday and Saturday, twenty-six road races on Sunday and Monday, and the mixed team relay to close it. Twenty-five nations went home with a medal. This is how the week was won, class by class.
France won a title every three and a half races
France finished with 15 golds, 8 silvers and 6 bronzes — 29 medals, more than a fifth of everything handed out, and three more titles than they took in Ronse a year ago from a squad of almost exactly the same size.
Eight of those titles came against the clock. Gatien Le Rousseau led a French sweep of the men's C4 time trial from Kevin Le Cunff and Mattis Lebeau, and Alexandre Léauté and Arthur Bauchet went one-two in the men's C2 — then did it again in Monday's road race, which made Léauté the only man to win both his events.
Florian Jouanny did the same in H2, Anaïs Vincent won the women's H3 road race two days after a silver in the time trial, and Johan Quaile took H3 on the road before riding the opening leg of the relay.
China returned to the Worlds and left with six titles
China did not start a single rider in Ronse in 2025. They came to Alabama with fourteen and finished second in the medal table on 6-7-4.
Xiaomei Wang won the women's C3 double by 1.80 seconds on Saturday and out of a group of three on Monday. Wangwei Qian and Weicong Liang took the C1 road races, and in the tricycles Jianxin Chen beat his team-mate Rongfei Lu by half a second in the T1 time trial before Lu returned the favour on the road by three seconds.
The United States raced at home and multiplied everything
Twenty-eight American riders started, against sixteen in Ronse, and one gold from last year's championships became six.
Samantha Bosco won the women's C4 time trial and then the road race. Katie Brim did the same in H2 and added a relay silver, three medals in four days. Emi Perry took the women's H4 time trial and Elouan Gardon the men's C5, by 84 seconds. Six golds, five silvers and six bronzes left the United States level with China on titles and separated only by silvers.
Eighteen champions kept the jersey; thirty-four did not
Of the 52 individual titles that were also on the programme in Ronse, 18 stayed with the same rider and 34 changed hands.
Among those who kept theirs: Fabrizio Cornegliani in the men's H1 road race, Tim Celen in T2, Chantal Haenen in both women's H5 events, Katie-George Dunlevy in the women's B time trial, Thomas Frühwirth in the men's H4 time trial, Flurina Rigling in the women's C2 road race and Mitch Valize in the men's H5.
At the other end of the same statistic: of the 46 riders who won in Huntsville, fifteen had never won a world title before in the results this site holds back to 2010 — Amelia Cass, Marvin Odent, Callum Russell, Eliott Pierre, Rita Malinkiewicz, Andrea Biancalani, Louis Hubert, Patrik Jahoda, Loïc Vergnaud, Emi Perry, Imanol Arriortua Zorrilla, Anaïs Vincent, Pokiza Akhmadbekova, Marjona Pardaboyeva and Elouan Gardon.
France close it out in the mixed team relay
The mixed team relay was the last race of the championships and France won it in 29:09 — Quaile, Vincent and Joseph Fritsch, 43 seconds clear of the United States and 46 clear of Australia.
The American team of Thomas Davis, Katie Brim and Matt Tingley took silver in front of a home crowd; Grant Allen, Alexander Welsh and Lauren Parker put Australia on the podium three seconds later.
The medal table
- France 15-8-6, 29 medals
- China 6-7-4, 17
- United States 6-5-6, 17
- Switzerland 3-4-2, 9
- Netherlands 3-3-2, 8
- Great Britain 3-2-5, 10
- Uzbekistan 3-1-0, 4
- Australia 2-4-4, 10
- Italy 2-4-4, 10
- Spain 2-4-1, 7
Belgium and Poland won two titles each, Ireland, Germany, Czechia and Austria one apiece. Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Denmark, Norway, Thailand, Japan, Slovakia and South Africa medalled without winning.
Every world champion crowned in Huntsville
The time trials, Friday and Saturday:
- Women's B — Katie-George Dunlevy (IRL)
- Women's C1 — Tahlia Clayton-Goodie (AUS)
- Women's C2 — Amelia Cass (GBR)
- Women's C3 — Xiaomei Wang (CHN)
- Women's C4 — Samantha Bosco (USA)
- Women's C5 — Heidi Gaugain (FRA)
- Women's H1 — Pokiza Akhmadbekova (UZB)
- Women's H2 — Katie Brim (USA)
- Women's H3 — Lauren Parker (AUS)
- Women's H4 — Emi Perry (USA)
- Women's H5 — Chantal Haenen (NED)
- Women's T1 — Marjona Pardaboyeva (UZB)
- Women's T2 — Celine van Till (SUI)
- Men's B — Elie de Carvalho (FRA)
- Men's C1 — Thomas Tarou (FRA)
- Men's C2 — Alexandre Léauté (FRA)
- Men's C3 — Louis Hubert (FRA)
- Men's C4 — Gatien Le Rousseau (FRA)
- Men's C5 — Elouan Gardon (USA)
- Men's H1 — Patrik Jahoda (CZE)
- Men's H2 — Florian Jouanny (FRA)
- Men's H3 — Marvin Odent (BEL)
- Men's H4 — Thomas Frühwirth (AUT)
- Men's H5 — Loïc Vergnaud (FRA)
- Men's T1 — Jianxin Chen (CHN)
- Men's T2 — Maximilian Jäger (GER)
The road races, Sunday and Monday:
- Women's B — Sophie Unwin (GBR)
- Women's C1 — Wangwei Qian (CHN)
- Women's C2 — Flurina Rigling (SUI)
- Women's C3 — Xiaomei Wang (CHN)
- Women's C4 — Samantha Bosco (USA)
- Women's C5 — Anna Harkowska (POL)
- Women's H1 — Manuela Vos van den Bouwhuijsen (ESP)
- Women's H2 — Katie Brim (USA)
- Women's H3 — Anaïs Vincent (FRA)
- Women's H4 — Sandra Fuhrer (SUI)
- Women's H5 — Chantal Haenen (NED)
- Women's T1 — Marjona Pardaboyeva (UZB)
- Women's T2 — Rita Malinkiewicz (POL)
- Men's B — Imanol Arriortua Zorrilla (ESP)
- Men's C1 — Weicong Liang (CHN)
- Men's C2 — Alexandre Léauté (FRA)
- Men's C3 — Thomas Peyroton Dartet (FRA)
- Men's C4 — Andrea Biancalani (ITA)
- Men's C5 — Eliott Pierre (FRA)
- Men's H1 — Fabrizio Cornegliani (ITA)
- Men's H2 — Florian Jouanny (FRA)
- Men's H3 — Johan Quaile (FRA)
- Men's H4 — Callum Russell (GBR)
- Men's H5 — Mitch Valize (NED)
- Men's T1 — Rongfei Lu (CHN)
- Men's T2 — Tim Celen (BEL)
And the mixed team relay: France, with Johan Quaile, Anaïs Vincent and Joseph Fritsch.
Tandem champions are listed here by the athlete, as the official results are; the pilot rides for the same jersey. Every podium, every finisher and every gap is on the event page, race by race, and the world champions page now carries all 53 of them.
The championships in numbers
- 53 titles: 26 time trials, 26 road races, one mixed team relay
- 351 riders from 48 nations were entered; 322 of them from 47 nations took a result, up from 316 in Ronse
- 25 nations won a medal, 16 of them won a title
- 46 riders became world champion; nine of them won twice
- Two races had no bronze to give: the women's H1 fields were two riders deep
- The narrowest time-trial win of the week: half a second, in the men's T1 time trial
Thank you
To everyone who raced: four days of that, in that heat, is a season's worth of work spent in public. To the mechanics, pilots, guides, staff and volunteers who got 351 riders to the ramp and round the circuit — most of that work never shows up in a result sheet.
And to everyone who followed along here through the week, refreshing a results page at three in the morning in their own time zone: thank you. There is more coming — the class-by-class analysis, the rankings picture after the road season, and the build-up to the track.
Next up: Apeldoorn
The UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships run from 29 October to 1 November in Apeldoorn, in the Netherlands: four days indoors, the kilo and the 500m, the individual pursuits, the sprints and the team sprint.
The entry list, the start lists and every result will be here as they come, the same way they were in Huntsville. A free account will e-mail you whenever a rider you follow takes a result — add them from any profile page.