Two-time mountain bike world champion Kate Courtney continues her hit-parade season with a debut on the UCI Highway World Championships for Workforce USA, going down in Montréal, Canada, September 20-27.
Courtney earned her spot with a victory in her first look on the elite ladies’s US Professional highway race championships. She then moved to an off-road marketing campaign that included lacking the defence of her Leadville Path 100 MTB title, and signed a multi-year contract with FDJ United-SUEZ.
Former US highway champion Kristen Faulkner (EF Training-Oatly) returns to the lineup after lacking final 12 months’s World Championships as a result of an damage suffered within the Tour de France Femmes. She is the one elite lady slated to journey each the time trial and the highway race.
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Veteran Lauren Stephens (Aegis x Leaders of Enchantment)) makes her tenth look for Workforce USA and Alexis Magner (EF Training-Oatly) returns for a sixth time in her profession to the Worlds. Three different elite ladies will compete for the primary time: Grace Arlandson (Aegis x Leaders of Enchantment), Natalie Quinn (Mayenne Professional Biking) and Taylor Knibb, a two-time US Professional time trial champion.
Successful the US Professional highway title for a 3rd time, Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek) leads the elite males’s roster that features a complete of eight riders, all of whom are a part of WorldTour or ProTeam squads. EF Training-EasyPost teammates Neilson Powless and Sean Quinn be part of Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike), Kevin Vermaerke (UAE Workforce Emirates-XRG) and Larry Warbasse (Tudor Professional) for the highway race. Brandon McNulty (UAE Workforce Emirates-XRG) and Artem Shmidt (Netcompany Ineos) will compete in each the highway race and time trial for elite males, the 22-year-old Shmidt having received the US Professional elite title within the ITT in June.
The seven elite ladies might be joined by 9 riders competing within the U23 and junior divisions for Workforce USA. Amongst that group are 4 riders with nationwide titles in 2026 – U23 highway race winner Katherine Sarkisov (CCB Kenetik p/b Levine Legislation Group), U23 time trial winner Kylee Hanel (Aegis x Leaders of Enchantment), junior ladies’s highway race winner Sophia Wellmeier (Workforce California Academy) and Liliana Edwards (CCB Kenetik p/b Levine Legislation Group).
The boys’s roster consists of 18 complete riders, 10 competing within the U23 and junior divisions. The 4 riders who received US nationwide titles in June are a part of this group – U23 highway race winner Ashlin Barry (Visma-Lease a Bike Growth), U23 ITT winner Kade Kreikemeier (Meridian Racing), junior males’s highway race winner Enzo Hincapie (Grenke – Auto Eder) and junior males’s ITT winner Kashus Adamski (Sizzling Tubes Biking).
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Racing in downtown Montreal begins with the elite time trial races on Sunday, September 20, the ladies setting off at 9:00 EDT and the lads at 12:45 EDT. The U23 fields competed in races towards the clock on September 21, with blended relay and junior classes competing on September 22. After an open day on Wednesday, competitors resumes from September 24-27 for highway races.
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Workforce USA roster for 2026 UCI Highway World Championships
Elite ladies
- Grace Arlandson (Aegis X Leaders of Enchantment) – Highway Race
- Kate Courtney (FDJ United-Suez) – Highway Race
- Kristen Faulkner (EF Training-Oatly) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Taylor Knibb – Time Trial
- Alexis Magner (EF Training-Oatly) – Highway Race
- Natalie Quinn (Mayenne Professional Biking) – Highway Race
- Lauren Stephens (Aegis X Leaders of Enchantment) – Highway Race
Elite males
- Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease A Bike) – Highway Race
- Brandon McNulty (UAE Workforce Emirates-XRG) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Neilson Powless (EF Training-EasyPost) – Highway Race
- Sean Quinn (EF Training-EasyPost) – Highway Race
- Artem Shmidt (Netcompany Ineos) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek) – Highway Race
- Kevin Vermaerke ( UAE Workforce Emirates-XRG) – Highway Race
- Larry Warbasse (Tudor Professional Biking Workforce) – Highway Race
U23 ladies
- Mia Aseltine (Comp Edge Racing) – Highway Race
- Lidia Cusack (Smurfit Westrock Biking Workforce) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Kylee Hanel (Aegis X Leaders of Enchantment) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Alyssa Sarkisov (CCB Kenetik p/b Levine Legislation Group) – Highway Race
- Katherine Sarkisov (CCB Kenetik p/b Levine Legislation Group – Highway Race
U23 males
- Ashlin Barry (Visma-Lease a Bike Growth) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Nathan Cusack (EF Training-Aevolo) – Highway Race
- Kade Kreikemeier (Meridian Racing) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Marcis Shelton (Comp Edge Rading) – Highway Race
- Gavin Sherry (EF Training-Aevolo) – Highway Race
Junior ladies
- Liliana Edwards (CCB Kenetik p/b Levine Legislation Group) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Emma Jimenez Palos (Metropolis Bikes) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Sofia Tripcevich (Workforce California Academy) – Highway Race
- Sophia Wellmeier (Workforce California Academy) – Highway Race
Junior males
- Kashus Adamski (Sizzling Tubes Biking) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Sylvan Garrelts (Sizzling Tubes Biking) – Highway Race
- Enzo Hincapie (Grenke – Auto Eder) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Cormac Nagle (Sizzling Tubes Biking) – Highway Race
- Rowan Nistal ( Bear Nationwide Workforce) – Highway Race
