The 2026 UCI Monitor World Championships will happen October 14-18 in Shanghai, China, the place the U.S. staff will look to construct momentum on the street to LA28. USA Biking has nominated a star-studded squad for this yr’s Monitor World Championships, bringing collectively a mixture of returning World Championship medalists, rising stars, and skilled veterans.
Contemporary off the 2026 UCI Street World Championships, Ashlin Barry (Toronto, Ont.; JEGG – SKIL – DJR), Kristen Faulkner (Homer, Alaska; EF-Oatly-Cannondale), and Emma Jimenez Palos (Miami, Fla.; Metropolis Bikes Miami Racing) went on to Carson, Calif., for staff camp forward of the Monitor World Championships.
Barry is contemporary off a historic Street World Championships, the place the 19-year-old gained Workforce USA’s first-ever U23 Males’s Street Race World Title and completed fourth within the U23 Time Trial. Faulkner, a Paris 2024 Olympic gold medalist within the Ladies’s Workforce Pursuit, completed twenty first within the Elite Ladies’s Street Race. Jimenez Palos can be coming off a breakthrough championship season, successful the Junior Scratch Race World Title earlier this yr earlier than making her Street World Championships debut in Montréal.
Barry returns to the Monitor World Championships after serving to the U.S. Males’s Workforce Pursuit squad make historical past in 2025. Alongside Graeme Frislie (Paradise, Australia; CCACHE x Bodywrap), Anders Johnson (Huntsville, Utah), and Grant Koontz (Nederland, Colo.; Star Monitor Biking), Barry helped the staff attain the Males’s Workforce Pursuit last, the place the squad completed fourth. It marked Workforce USA’s finest outcome within the occasion since 1995, when the U.S. final gained a World Championships medal within the self-discipline.
The lads’s endurance squad returns with an added layer of expertise this yr as Taylor Phinney (Boulder, Colo.), a two-time Particular person Pursuit World Champion, comes out of retirement to affix the Workforce Pursuit squad. Peter Moore (Saint Paul, Minn.), who earned a medal within the Factors Race eventually yr’s World Championships, and Brendan Rhim (Norwich, Vt.; Challenge Echelon) spherical out the boys’s endurance squad.
On the ladies’s endurance facet, Faulkner and Jimenez Palos might be joined by Bethany Ingram (Warrington, Pa.; TWENTY28 Professional Biking), Megan Jastrab (Apple Valley, Calif.; UAE Workforce ADQ), Stephanie Lawrence (Colorado Springs, Colo.), and Anna Hicks (Boulder, Colo.; Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY28).
The American dash squad can even look to construct on a historic efficiency from final yr. In 2025, Kayla Hankins (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Emily Hayes (York, S.C.), and Hayley Yoslov (Corte Madera, Calif.) turned the primary U.S. ladies’s staff to advance to the primary spherical of the Ladies’s Workforce Dash on the World Championships. The trio in the end completed seventh, recording the all time World Championships outcome for the U.S. program within the occasion. McKenna McKee (Vancouver, Wash.) joins the dash squad in Shanghai and can compete alongside Hankins, Hayes, and Yoslov within the staff and particular person dash occasions as Workforce USA seems to proceed constructing on its progress.
The Workforce USA Roster is as follows:
Elite Ladies’s Endurance
Kristen Faulkner (Homer, Alaska; EF-Oatly-Cannondale)
Anna Hicks (Boulder, Colo.; Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY28)
Bethany Ingram (Warrington, Pa.; TWENTY28 Professional Biking)
Megan Jastrab (Apple Valley, Calif.; UAE Workforce ADQ)
Emma Jimenez Palos (Miami, Fla.; Metropolis Bikes Miami Racing)
Stephanie Lawrence (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
Elite Males’s Endurance
Ashlin Barry (Toronto, Ont.; JEGG – SKIL – DJR)
Graeme Frislie (Paradise, Au.; CCACHE x Bodywrap)
Anders Johnson (Huntsville, Utah)
Grant Koontz (Nederland, Colo.; Star Monitor Biking)
Peter Moore (Saint Paul, Minn.)
Taylor Phinney (Boulder, Colo.)
Brendan Rhim (Norwich, Vt.; Challenge Echelon)
Elite Ladies’s Dash
Kayla Hankins (Scottsdale, Ariz.)
Emily Hayes (York, S.C.)
McKenna McKee (Vancouver, Wash.)
Hayley Yoslov (Corte Madera, Calif.)
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