MONTREAL, Canada (September 25, 2026) — Ashlin Barry (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) gave the US its first-ever Below-23 males’s street race world title Friday on the 2026 UCI Street World Championships, using solo to victory on his nineteenth birthday.
Barry, who races for Crew Visma | Lease a Bike Growth, attacked with slightly below 29 kilometers remaining on the demanding Mont Royal circuit and stayed clear to the end. He accomplished the 174-kilometer race in 4 hours, 17 minutes, 35 seconds, ending 53 seconds forward of Spain’s Hector Alvarez and Denmark’s Jesper Stiansen.
America began 5 riders within the U23 males’s street race: Barry, Gavin Sherry of EF Schooling-Aevolo, Marcis Shelton of Comp Edge Racing, Kade Kreikemeier of Meridian Racing and Nathan Cusack of EF Schooling-Aevolo.
The race lined 13 laps of the Mont Royal circuit.
A four-rider breakaway shaped early, however the peloton saved the group inside attain. On the fourth lap, Barry attacked from the sphere and closed a 40-second hole to achieve the leaders.
The break continued to increase its benefit, constructing a lead of greater than 1 minute, 40 seconds with 100 kilometers remaining.
Denmark’s Kristian Egholm later attacked from the entrance group on the Mont Royal climb, and Barry adopted. The pair labored collectively earlier than Barry made the decisive transfer with two laps to go.
From there, Barry rode alone.
“I saved seeing the hole and saved anticipating it to return down on the climbs. One way or the other, I used to be in a position to maintain it. I used to be form of simply using my tempo and anticipating some riders would come throughout to me. I simply tried to not overextend or go over my restrict, and I saved pushing and consuming and consuming as a lot as attainable,” Barry stated.
“I believed, ultimately, I’d get caught or form of hit a wall, and by some means it by no means occurred. I actually simply rode my very own tempo and went as quick as I may to the end. The final two laps I simply gave it the whole lot I had.”
The win carried added significance for Barry and his household.
Barry holds each American and Canadian citizenship. His father, Canadian Olympian Michael Barry, and his mom, American Olympian Dede Barry, each raced and gained on the Mont Royal course.
Along with his household watching on the end, Barry added a world title to that household historical past on the identical roads — and did it on his nineteenth birthday.
Outcomes
1st — Ashlin Barry (USA) — 4:17:35
2nd — Hector Alvarez (ESP) — +0:53
third — Jesper Stiansen (DEN) — +0:53
twelfth — Marcis Shelton (USA) — +1:19
seventieth — Gavin Sherry (USA) — +9:57
DNF — Kade Kreikemeier (USA)
DNF — Nathan Cusack (USA)
