World Championships Road Race 2026 - Women Elite
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What is the layout and key climbs of the Montreal World Championships women's road race?
Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast, the recap of the Women's World Championships road race from Montreal. Well, actually, starting in Brossard, finishing in Montreal on the Montreal Circuit. Uh, 180 kilometers long, 2,400 meters of elevation gain, and we do eight laps, yeah, seven laps of the Montreal Circuit. It features three key climbs: the Voix. Camillion Hood, which is 1.7k 7%, and then a quick descent, a little punch. Then there's the a short heel around the polytechnic that you don't really see on the profile, but that's actually one of the steepest parts of the course and really saps the legs of the riders. Then there's another fast hill, like a power climb, 500 meters, 5%, where a lot of the crowds were in the nice in the shade, uh in the forest.
And then we go around and do it all again. So the lap itself is about 12 kilometers long and it finishes with an uphill drag to the finish in Montr uh yeah in Montreal. Benji, can you do you want to do a recap of the the men's junior, men's U twenty three, women's junior race, more how the races were were won. Ooh. I'll highlight men's junior first. Okay. And what we're seeing is the attacks in between are some of the most decisive. So I think one rider was watching, and we'll get to her where she attacked today, but I'll across the finish line, everybody's thinking as they get to the finish line. So you go up this 500 meter drag, you go through a feed zone just after, I think. Yeah and then Then everyone's thinking we got the big climb coming up.
But through that feed zone's a little bit of flat. And Benjamin Naval attacked there and he was gone solo. And he took everybody by surprise. Uh and I think, yeah, that was a pretty Yeah. That was a pretty good place to attack.
Yeah, it was also very dominant victory in the end. That's for sure. Probably one of the more dominant ones we've seen across the the four races we had before today. But I actually really enjoyed both the women's U-23 and the women's junior race. Those two I found uh really intriguing, the junior and and U-23 women's races. And in in the women's U-23 race, and even in the junior race, it was really the clums that made the the decisive moves, though. Like, yes. the the in between say it's to be honest there's four segments to attack on this parkour and The one is the big climb. The second one is the polytechnique climb. The third one is the gradual climb you have is like the third climb on the parkour, which just a bump in the road, where a certain rider goes today.
Then you've got the ELB spot, like you say. I don't think anyone's gotten the way in any of the races on the third of those climbs in the route. As in the third bump, the one after Polytechnique with four kilometers to go, roughly.
No, I don't think so. It's too high a draft. I think is that where Sykesas did like the the telegraft attack?
I think so. I think that's the exact climb.
You get too much draft on that one. Um Royce was very strong on that climb, whereas the other ones that the one before was too punchy. So yeah, different ways the race has been won in all the races. We've had small group strengths, we've had a long we've had a a favorite solo in between the climbs, we've had an early break victory from Barry. So j different ways to approach the course.
My favorite of the ones before today was actually the junior women's race. The fight between Nira, Grossmann, Rossignoli in the last lap, with then the other two coming back in the final stretch. I absolute cinema to me. Also with a surprising winner from that group. I expected the Polish rider to win.
Exactly. Her or Rossignoli, but in fact yeah, it was Naira. So uh her and Grossman looked the strongest on the climbs. But yeah, it's been you've seen riders come back. You can come back because if it's a group of three in front and they're all thinking about the sprint and a particularly on the on a flat sprint finish you you carry some speed but in an uphill sprint finish like this is if you start to finesse you lose so much time so quickly to chasers who keep the pressure on the pedals so yeah I didn't know exactly how the race would pan out today uh it was a very closed race initially because the Netherlands
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the layout and key climbs of the Montreal World Championships women's road race?
0:00β7:13
2
How did the early attacks and solo moves shape the first half of the women's race?
7:13β14:01
3
What impact did the major crash around the 60βkm mark have on the contenders?
14:01β19:56
4
How did team tacticsβespecially the Dutch strategyβcontrol the peloton in the middle laps?
19:56β25:46
5
What were the decisive moves on the final climbs that set up the sprint?
25:46β31:20
6
How did Demi Vollering execute her final attack and win the world title?
31:20β37:26
7
What were the postβrace analyses of the top finishers and the raceβs overall difficulty?
37:26β42:09
8
What are the hostsβ final thoughts and predictions for next yearβs World Championships?
42:09β53:14