USA Biking introduced its roster on Sept. 1 for the 2026 UCI Highway World Championships, deciding on 34 athletes to characterize the USA on the annual occasion in Montréal, Canada, from Sept. 20-27.
The roster contains Olympic gold medalist Kristen Faulkner, three-time U.S. highway race nationwide champion Quinn Simmons and a mixture of WorldTour veterans and rising expertise throughout the elite, U23 and junior age-levels.
Simmons leads the elite males’s highway race staff alongside Matteo Jorgenson, Brandon McNulty, Neilson Powless, Sean Quinn, Kevin Vermaerke and Larry Warbasse. Reigning U.S. time trial nationwide champion Artem Shmidt additionally was chosen and can compete in each the elite males’s highway race and particular person time trial.
Faulkner headlines the elite girls’s staff after successful Olympic gold in Paris. She is scheduled to compete in each the elite girls’s highway race and particular person time trial. Kate Courtney, a former mountain bike world champion and 2026 U.S. highway race nationwide champion, additionally earned a spot on the staff and is about to make her UCI Highway World Championships debut. Taylor Knibb was chosen for the elite girls’s particular person time trial.
USA Biking’s choices additionally function a number of reigning nationwide champions within the U23 and junior ranks, together with Ashlin Barry, Kade Kreikemeier, Katherine Sarkisov, Kylee Hanel, Enzo Hincapie, Kashus Adamski, Sophia Wellmeier and Liliana Edwards.
Full Staff USA Roster
The Staff USA roster is as follows:
Elite Males
- Matteo Jorgenson (Boise, Idaho; Visma | Lease A Bike) – Highway Race
- Brandon McNulty (Phoenix, Ariz.; UAE Staff Emirates-XRG) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Neilson Powless (Roseville, Calif.; EF Training-EasyPost) – Highway Race
- Sean Quinn (Los Angeles, Calif.; EF Training-EasyPost) – Highway Race
- Artem Shmidt (Cumming, Ga.; Netcompany INEOS) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Quinn Simmons (Durango, Colo.; Lidl-Trek) – Highway Race
- Kevin Vermaerke (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.; UAE Staff Emirates-XRG) – Highway Race
- Larry Warbasse (Traverse Metropolis, Mich.; Tudor Professional Biking Staff) – Highway Race
Elite Ladies
- Grace Arlandson (Boulder, Colo.; Aegis X Leaders of Enchantment) – Highway Race
- Kate Courtney (Kenfield, Calif.; FDJ United-Suez) – Highway Race
- Kristen Faulkner (Homer, Alaska; EF-Oatly-Cannondale) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Taylor Knibb (Boulder, Colo.) – Time Trial
- Alexis Magner (Athens, Ga.; EF-Oatly-Cannondale) – Highway Race
- Natalie Quinn (Harrisville, Utah; Mayenne Professional Biking) – Highway Race
- Lauren Stephens (Dallas; Aegis X Leaders of Enchantment) – Highway Race
U23 Males
- Ashlin Barry (Toronto, Ont.; Staff Visma | Lease a Bike Improvement) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Nathan Cusack (Chevy Chase, Md.; EF Training-Aevolo) – Highway Race
- Kade Kreikemeier (Fort Collins, Colo.; Meridian Racing) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Marcis Shelton (Mill Valley, Calif.; Comp Edge Rading) – Highway Race
- Gavin Sherry (West Hartford, Conn.; EF Training-Aevolo) – Highway Race
U23 Ladies
- Mia Aseltine (Littleton, Colo.; Comp Edge Racing) – Highway Race
- Lidia Cusack (Chevy Chase, Md.; Smurfit Westrock Biking Staff) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Kylee Hanel (Portland, Ore.; Aegis X Leaders of Enchantment) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Alyssa Sarkisov (North Potomic, Md.; CCB p/b Levine Regulation Group Biking) – Highway Race
- Katherine Sarkisov (North Potomic, Md.; CCB p/b Levine Regulation Group Biking) – Highway Race
Junior Males
- Kashus Adamski (Bloomfield, Mich.; Scorching Tubes Biking) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Sylvan Garrelts (Brooklyn, N.Y.; Scorching Tubes Biking) – Highway Race
- Enzo Hincapie (Greenville, S.C.; grenke – Auto Eder) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Cormac Nagle (Bolton, Mass.; Scorching Tubes Biking) – Highway Race
- Rowan Nistal (Boise, Idaho; Bear Nationwide Staff) – Highway Race
Junior Ladies
- Liliana Edwards (Washington, D.C.; CCB p/b Levine Regulation Group Biking) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Emma Jimenez Palos (Miami, Fla.; Metropolis Bikes) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Sofia Tripcevich (Berkeley, Calif.; Staff California Academy) – Highway Race
- Sophia Wellmeier (Corta Madera, Calif.; Staff California Academy) – Highway Race
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