The 2026 UCI Para-Biking Observe World Championships will happen October 29-November 1 in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, bringing the world’s finest para biking observe athletes collectively for 4 days of racing.
Para Biking observe athletes compete throughout two divisions: Cycle (C), for riders on standard bicycles with variations as wanted, and Tandem (B), the place visually impaired athletes race alongside a sighted pilot.
USA Biking will area 4 tandems in Apeldoorn, together with a number of returning athletes and new pairings.
Branden Walton (Livermore, Calif.) and pilot Ian Anderson (Fort Collins, Colo.) return to the World Championship boards after incomes bronze within the Tandem Pursuit finally 12 months’s World Championships of their first worldwide occasion collectively. Michael Murphy and pilot Harrison Devine will make their World Championship debut as a tandem after impressing at this 12 months’s Nationwide Championships, whereas Michael Stephens (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and pilot Joe Christiansen (Lyons, Colo.) will tackle the dash occasions. Present Pan-Am Champion Hannah Chadwick (Arcata, Calif.) can even race the tandem dash occasions alongside her new pilot, Hayley Bates (Lengthy Seaside, Calif.).
Within the C courses, Allison Jones (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Shawn Morelli (Meadville, Penn.), and Katie Walker (Chula Vista, Calif.) will all return to the World Championship boards. Morelli enters the competitors because the reigning bronze medalist within the WC4 Scratch Race, and Jones is coming off her bronze medal within the 2026 UCI Para-Biking Street World Championships Time Trial.
On the boys’s aspect, 4 MC4 riders will characterize the U.S., together with Ryan Jastrab (Apple Valley, Calif.), Jason Macom (Colorado Springs, Colo.), John Terrell (Colorado Springs, Colo.), and Brady Hout (Ronan, Mont.), who will make his World Championship debut.
“We’re actually excited to take this crew to Apeldoorn for the World Championships,” stated Chris Furber, Senior Director of Para Biking. “Final 12 months we got here away with two medals, and our ambition is to construct on that efficiency. For us, it’s about including worth to efficiency, with each member of the crew centered on how they will make a constructive contribution to every athlete’s efficiency. Simply as importantly, it is a studying atmosphere. With solely three main observe occasions from right here till the LA 2028 Video games, now we have restricted alternatives to organize our athletes at this stage. We have to be taught and enhance rapidly to make each alternative depend.”
USA Biking will probably be supported in Apeldoorn by coaches Ben Sharp, a longtime Olympic and Paralympic medalist coach, and Pete Mitchell, a seven-time World Champion tandem pilot for Staff GB.
The Staff USA Roster is as follows:
Males
Ian Anderson (Fort Collins, Colo.) – Pilot (Walton)
Joe Christiansen (Lyons, Colo.) – Pilot (Stephens)
Harrison Devine (Bellevue, Wash.) – Pilot (Murphy)
Brady Hout (Ronan, Mont.) – C4
Ryan Jastrab (Apple Valley, Calif.) – C4
Jason Macom (Colorado Springs, Colo.) – C4
Michael Murphy (San Diego, Calif.) – MB
Michael Stephens (Huntington, W.Va.) – B
John Terrell (Colorado Springs, Colo.) – C4
Branden Walton (Livermore, Calif.) – B
Girls
Hayley Bates (Lengthy Seaside, Calif.) – Pilot (Chadwick)
Hannah Chadwick (Arcata, Calif.) – B
Allison Jones (Colorado Springs, Colo.) – C2
Shawn Morelli (Meadville, Penn.) – C4
Katie Walker (Chula Vista, Calif.) – C5
USA Biking’s participation within the World Championships is made attainable by way of the assist of devoted donors and companions. To assist the USA Biking Nationwide Staff, members can donate to the USA Biking Basis right here.
