The 2026 UCI Para-Biking Highway World Championships made their debut in Huntsville, Alabama, on September 4-7, bringing collectively the world’s prime para-cyclists to compete for rainbow jerseys. Group USA opened the championships with a robust displaying on Friday, incomes 5 medals throughout the Handcycle and Tricycle Time Trials, together with two World Titles and three extra podium finishes.

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After profitable each the Time Trial and Highway Race World Titles in 2022 and 2024, Kate Brim (Lowell, Mich.) continued her dominant run with one other World Title in Huntsville. Brim delivered a blazing efficiency, posting a time that might have put her third within the males’s class, incomes her fifth World Title of her profession. 

Outcomes:

1. Kate Brim (USA)

2. Roberta, Amadeo (ITA)

3. Patcharapha Seesen (THA) 

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Emelia Perry (Philadelphia, Penn.) delivered an unbelievable efficiency to assert her first UCI Para-Biking Highway World Championship title within the Time Trial. Perry improved on her silver medal from final 12 months, taking the highest step of the rostrum in simply her second Paracycling World Championships.

Outcomes: 

1. Emelia Perry (USA)

2. Sandra Hurer (SUI)

3. Cornelia Wibner (AUS) 

WH3

After a difficult day racing within the Alabama warmth, Jenna Rollman (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) battled to a seventh-place end within the Ladies’s H3 Time Trial.

Outcomes:

1. Lauren Parker (AUS)

2. Anais Vincent (FRA)

3. Jessica Moreira Ferreira (BRA)

7. Jenna Rollman (USA) 

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Barry Wilcox (Port Angeles, Wash.) put down a blazing-fast trip to take the recent seat early within the Males’s H1 Time Trial. Wilcox finally completed second after Patrick Johoda (CZE) moved into the highest spot, ending simply 14 seconds forward. Wilcox’s silver medal marks one other sturdy World Championship efficiency on dwelling soil for Group USA.

Outcomes:

1. Patrick Johoda (CZE)

2. Barry Wilcox (USA)

3. Nicolas Pieter Du Preez (RSA)

MH2

After a string of fourth-place finishes, Cody Wills (Harrisburg, Penn.) lastly broke by way of for his first World Championship medal, incomes bronze within the Males’s H2 Time Trial. Teammate Jeremy Van Tress (Herriman, Utah) completed simply 11 seconds behind Wills to take fourth after a robust trip in his World Championship debut. Additionally in his first World Championships, Nicholas McCoy (Boerne, Texas) put collectively a stable efficiency to complete ninth.

Outcomes:

1. Florian Jouanny (FRA)

2. Luca Lazzone (ITA)

3. Cody Wills (USA)

4. Jeremy Van Tress (USA)

9. Nicholas McCoy (USA)

MH3

Ryan Pinney (Phoenix, Ariz.) got here inside seconds of the rostrum after a robust race within the Males’s H3 Time Trial. Racing two laps of the 14.6-kilometer course for a complete of 29.2 kilometers, Pinney completed fourth. Owen Daniels (Fontana, Calif.) additionally put collectively a stable trip, ending twelfth.

Outcomes:

1. Marvin Odent (BEL)

2. Micha Wafler (SUI)

3. Daniel Uhmann (GER)

4. Ryan Pinney (USA)

12. Owen Daniels (USA)

MH4

The Males’s H4 area accomplished two laps of the 14.6-kilometer course, taking over the difficult Alabama warmth. Group USA earned two top-10 finishes, with Tom Davis (Fremont, Ind.) inserting fifth and Matt Tingley (Colorado Springs, Colo.) ending seventh.

Outcomes:

1. Thomas Fruhwirth (AUT) 

2. Callum Russell (GBR)

3. Joseph Fritsch (FRA)

5. Tom Davis (USA)

7. Matt Tingley (USA)

MH5

Freddie De Los Santos (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.) and Josue Barron (Los Angeles, Calif.) took on the 29.2-kilometer Males’s H5 Time Trial. Each riders battled by way of the demanding circumstances over the two-lap course, with De Los Santos ending fifth and Barron taking tenth.

Outcomes:

1. Loic Vergnaud (FRA)

2. Mitch Valize (NED)

3. Qiangli Liu (CHN)

5. Freddie De Los Santos (USA)

10. Josue Barron (USA)

MT2

Dennis Connors (Beaverton, Ore.) put himself in medal competition with a blazing 22:33 trip within the Males’s T2 Time Trial, taking the recent seat early within the competitors. Connors finally secured the bronze medal, ending simply 11 seconds behind the primary place finisher after a tightly contested race.

Outcomes:

1. Maximilian Jager (GER)

2. Calum O’Neill (GBR)

3. Dennis Connors (USA)

Group USA will proceed with extra Time Trials tomorrow then conclude with the Highway Races on Sunday and Monday. 

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