2026 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships

The 2026 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships was the 77th edition of the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, the annual world championship for the cycling discipline of cyclo-cross. It was held from 30 January to 1 February in Hulst, Netherlands. The championships were organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale and sponsored by Rabobank.

Venue

Hulst was officially confirmed as the host city in September 2021. The city had previously hosted UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup races, but never a world championship.

The course was long, with of elevation gain, including 7 bridges and a section of 22 stairs.

Competition schedule All times are local, CET (UTC+1). Date Time Race Category Mixed team relay Women's junior race Men's under-23 race Women's elite race Men's junior race Men's elite race

Pre-race favorites Mathieu van der Poel, the reigning seven-time champion, was widely seen as the favorite for the men's elite race. Expected challengers included Thibau Nys, Michael Vanthourenhout, Toon Aerts, Emiel Verstrynge, and Laurens Sweeck. Favorites for the women's elite race included Lucinda Brand, Inge van der Heijden, Aniek van Alphen, Puck Pieterse, and Amandine Fouquenet.

Medal summary Women's eventsWomen's elite race 49' 16" +27" +51" 43' 08" +11" +57"Women's junior race 44' 55" +15" +35" Men's eventsMen's elite race 1h 00' 25" +35" +46"Men's under-23 race 53' 11" +19" +22"Men's junior race 40' 15" +9" +10" Mixed eventsMixed team relay Guus van den EijndenDelano HeerenIsis VersluisLeonie BentveldShirin van AnrooijTibor Del Grosso 47' 06" Filippo GrigoliniStefano ViezziSara CasasolaElisa FerriGiorgia PellizottiFilippo Fontana +16" Fleur MoorsKay De BruyckereJulie BrouwersJari Van LeeZita PeetersNiels Vandeputte +37"

Results Women Elite The Elite Women's race took place on Saturday in 6 laps over a total distance of 19.60 km. 31 riders from 16 nations took part in the race.

+ Result Rank Cyclist Nation Time Lucinda Brand 49:16 Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado 49:43 +0:27 Puck Pieterse 50:07 +0:51 4 Blanka Kata Vas 50:12 +0:56 5 Amandine Fouquenet 50:14 +0:58 6 Jolanda Neff 50:18 +1:02 7 Zoe Bäckstedt 50:21 +1:05 8 Manon Bakker 50:27 +1:11 9 Shirin van Anrooij 50:36 +1:20 10 Marie Schreiber 50:53 +1:37 11 Kristýna Zemanová 51:21 +2:05 12 Hélène Clauzel 51:28 +2:12 13 Inge van der Heijden 51:33 +2:17 14 Aniek van Alphen 51:35 +2:19 15 Annemarie Worst 51:37 +2:21 16 Sidney McGill 53:16 +4:00 17 Sofia Rodriguez Revert 53:30 +4:14 18 Lucia Gonzalez Blanco 53:35 +4:19 19 Larissa Hartog 54:02 +4:46 20 Elizabeth Gunsalus 54:09 +4:53 21 Rebekka Estermann 54:15 +4:59 22 Perrine Clauzel 54:35 +5:19 23 Zuzanna Krzystała 54:48 +5:32 24 Nadja Heigl 55:50 +6:34 25 Anna Megale 55:51 +6:35 26 Maghalie Rochette 57:06 +7:50 27 Ann-Dorthe Lisbygd 28 Kasuga Watabe Sara Casasola Marion Norbert-Riberolle Julie Brouwers

Under-23 The Under-23 Women's race took place on Sunday in 5 laps over a total distance of 16.35 km. 32 riders from 15 nations took part in the race.

+ Result Rank Cyclist Nation Time Leonie Bentveld 43:08 Viktória Chladoňová 43:19 +0:11 Célia Gery 44:05 +0:57 4 Fleur Moors 44:22 +1:14 5 Amandine Muller 44:28 +1:20 6 Vida Lopez de San Roman 44:31 +1:23 7 Alyssa Sarkisov 44:58 +1:50 8 Lidia Cusack 45:09 +2:01 9 Lison Desprez 45:12 +2:04 10 Elisa Ferri 45:15 +2:07 11 Bloeme Kalis 45:25 +2:17 12 Lauren Molengraaf 45:40 +2:32 13 Katherine Sarkisov 45:49 +2:41 14 Electa Gallezot 46:06 +2:58 15 Liv Wenzel 46:11 +3:03 16 Rafaelle Carrier 46:25 +3:17 17 Regina Bruchner 46:33 +3:25 18 Puck Langenbarg 46:37 +3:29 19 Kateřina Hladíková 46:37 +3:29 20 Amálie Gottwaldová 46:53 +3:45 21 Mille Nielsen 46:56 +3:48 22 Jana Glaus 46:57 +3:49 23 Nico Knoll 47:07 +3:59 24 Lorena Patiño Villanueva 47:08 +4:00 25 Lyllie Sonnemann 47:40 +4:32 26 Kaya Musgrave 48:26 +5:18 27 Thea Persson 49:45 +6:37 28 Dorothee Perron 51:06 +7:58 29 Nelia Kabetaj 51:55 +8:47 Mia Aseltine Shanyl De Schoesitter Layla Barthels

Junior The Junior Women's race took place on Saturday in 5 laps over a total distance of 16.35 km. 47 riders from 19 nations took part in the race.

+ Result Rank Cyclist Nation Time Barbora Bukovská 44:55 Lise Revol 45:10 +0:15 Lucie Grohová 45:30 +0:35 4 Giorgia Pellizotti 45:39 +0:44 5 Shana Huber 45:43 +0:48 6 Nynke Jochems 46:04 +1:09 7 Zélie Lambert 46:38 +1:43 8 Zoe Roche 46:47 +1:52 9 Alexa Haviland 46:49 +1:54 10 Laly Pichon 46:55 +2:00 11 Rianne Nieuwenhuis 47:09 +2:14 12 Aitana Gutierrez Velarde 47:11 +2:16 13 Peggy Knox 47:19 +2:24 14 Nicole Azzetti 47:26 +2:31 15 Liese Geuens 47:48 +2:53 16 Nicole Righetto 47:55 +3:00 17 Lujza Bartošíková 48:03 +3:08 18 Kira Mullins 48:10 +3:15 19 Elisa Bianchi 48:21 +3:26 20 Barbora Šíslová 48:29 +3:34 21 Lucie Elizalde 48:52 +3:57 22 Aida Linton 48:59 +4:04 23 Nanami Ishikawa 49:05 +4:10 24 Greta Andersson 49:06 +4:11 25 Mirari Gotxi Olartekoetxea 49:14 +4:19 26 Ada Watson 49:19 +4:24 27 Maxime Takken 49:32 +4:37 28 Beatrix Attelmann 49:41 +4:46 29 Karolína Bortelová 49:58 +5:03 30 Ayaka Hiyoshi 50:02 +5:07 31 Karolína Rothbauerová 50:25 +5:30 32 Tessa Beebe 50:28 +5:33 33 Claire MacKinnon 50:31 +5:36 34 Carla Bañuls Puente 50:37 +5:42 35 Elsa Elf Boberg 50:39 +5:44 36 Graden Daume 50:43 +5:48 37 Alana Fletcher 51:02 +6:07 38 Aoi Kobayashi 51:30 +6:35 39 Gisele Rang 53:27 +8:32 40 Sophie Hiswin 41 Alicia Reynolds Eva Drhová Ida Mahlert Amandine Jakob June Nothum Isis Versluis Zita Peeters

Men Elite The Elite Men's race took place on Sunday in 8 laps over a total distance of 26.10 km. 39 riders from 17 nations took part in the race.

+ Result Rank Cyclist Nation Time Mathieu van der Poel 1:00:25 Tibor del Grosso 1:01:00 +0:35 Thibau Nys 1:01:11 +0:46 4 Joris Nieuwenhuis 1:01:20 +0:55 5 Filippo Fontana 1:01:20 +0:55 6 Gerben Kuypers 1:01:23 +0:58 7 Felipe Orts 1:01:29 +1:04 8 Toon Aerts 1:01:29 +1:04 9 Jente Michels 1:01:29 +1:04 10 Michael Vanthourenhout 1:02:00 +1:35 11 Kevin Kuhn 1:02:09 +1:44 12 Mees Hendrikx 1:02:16 +1:51 13 Joran Wyseure 1:02:34 +2:09 14 Michael Boroš 1:02:40 +2:15 15 Martin Groslambert 1:02:51 +2:26 16 David Menut 1:03:07 +2:42 17 Ryan Kamp 1:03:16 +2:51 18 Danny van Lierop 1:03:22 +2:57 19 Lars van der Haar 1:03:31 +3:06 20 Loris Rouiller 1:03:44 +3:19 21 Cameron Mason 1:03:49 +3:24 22 Nathan Bommenel 1:04:05 +3:40 23 Toon Vandebosch 1:04:36 +4:11 24 Rémi Lelandais 1:04:39 +4:14 25 Fabian Eder 1:04:45 +4:20 26 Marcel Meisen 1:04:53 +4:28 27 Niels Vandeputte 1:05:00 +4:35 28 Mario Junquera 1:05:03 +4:38 29 Kevin Suarez Fernandez 1:05:14 +4:49 30 Pim Ronhaar 1:06:28 +6:03 31 Andrew Strohmeyer 1:07:21 +6:56 32 Lars Sommer 33 David Risberg 34 Karl-Erik Rosendahl 35 Cody Scott 36 Jacob Turner 37 Felipe Timoteo Nystrom Spencer 38 Dovydas Lukšas Loïc Bettendorff

Under-23 The Under-23 Men's race took place on Saturday in 7 laps over a total distance of 22.85 km. 47 riders from 17 nations took part in the race.

+ Result Rank Cyclist Nation Time Aaron Dockx 53:11 Aubin Sparfel 53:30 +0:19 Keije Solen 53:33 +0:22 4 Guus van den Eijnden 53:34 +0:23 5 Arthur van den Boer 53:41 +0:30 6 Barnabás Vas 53:47 +0:36 7 Raul Mira Bonastre 53:48 +0:37 8 Léo Bisiaux 53:48 +0:37 9 Oscar Amey 54:02 +0:51 10 Jules Simon 54:20 +1:09 11 Viktor Vandenberghe 54:22 +1:11 12 Mats Vanden Eynde 54:23 +1:12 13 Henry Coote 54:24 +1:13 14 David Haverdings 54:26 +1:15 15 Zsombor Takács 54:46 +1:35 16 Sil De Brauwere 54:54 +1:43 17 Romain Debord 55:06 +1:55 18 Kenay De Moyer 55:06 +1:55 19 Max Heiner Oertzen 55:16 +2:05 20 Michiel Mouris 55:41 +2:30 21 Kryštof Bažant 55:47 +2:36 22 Hannes Degenkolb 55:48 +2:37 23 Maximilian Kerl 55:56 +2:45 24 Senna Remijn 56:00 +2:49 25 Eike Behrens 56:01 +2:50 26 Ryan Drummond 56:28 +3:17 27 Rafael Sousa 56:35 +3:24 28 Alexis David 56:35 +3:24 29 Floris Haverdings 56:47 +3:36 30 Ben Askey 56:48 +3:37 31 Théophile Vassal 56:50 +3:39 32 Silas Kuschla 56:52 +3:41 33 Calvin Conaway 56:59 +3:48 34 František Hojka 57:08 +3:57 35 Shingen Yunoki 57:11 +4:00 36 Daniel Nielsen 57:26 +4:15 37 Lennox Papi 58:05 +4:54 38 Zenshin Nozaki 58:45 +5:34 39 Declan Oldham 59:02 +5:51 40 Rhett Bates 59:07 +5:56 41 Mads Jørgensen 59:19 +6:08 42 Artur Nichvolodov 43 Mathis Duval Yordi Corsus Peter Šoltés Jonas Posselt Gamborg Stefano Viezzi

Junior The Junior Men's race took place on Sunday in 5 laps over a total distance of 16.35 km. 61 riders from 20 nations took part in the race.

+ Result Rank Cyclist Nation Time Delano Heeren 40:15 Filippo Grigolini 40:24 +0:09 Giel Lejeune 40:25 +0:10 4 Benjamin Noval Suarez 40:30 +0:15 5 Soen Le Pann 40:58 +0:43 6 Soren Bruyere Joumard 41:19 +1:04 7 Noël Goijert 41:24 +1:09 8 Patrik Pezzo Rosola 41:31 +1:16 9 Raul Lopez Sainz 41:37 +1:22 10 Francesco Dell'Olio 41:41 +1:26 11 Victor Devos 41:41 +1:26 12 Luke Trafford 41:43 +1:28 13 Milo Wills 41:43 +1:28 14 Lars Corsus 41:55 +1:40 15 Michal Šichta 42:00 +1:45 16 Ethan Brown 42:06 +1:51 17 Bas Vanden Eynde 42:07 +1:52 18 Benedek Berencsi 42:20 +2:05 19 Cas Timmermans 42:23 +2:08 20 Kacper Mizuro 42:24 +2:09 21 Loek Hovers 42:38 +2:23 22 Emilien Belzile 42:38 +2:23 23 Antonín John 42:50 +2:35 24 Jop van den Biggelaar 42:54 +2:39 25 Jari Van Lee 42:58 +2:43 26 Martin Fernandez Garcia 43:01 +2:46 27 Milan Húsenica 43:09 +2:54 28 Farland Lamont 43:09 +2:54 29 Jacob Steed 43:15 +3:00 30 Matthew Crabbe 43:17 +3:02 31 Tommaso Cingolani 43:19 +3:04 32 David Svoboda 43:24 +3:09 33 Johannes Brædstrup-Holm 43:26 +3:11 34 Melvin Pålsson Gustafsson 43:36 +3:21 35 Ben Fleming 43:40 +3:25 36 Kai van Hoof 43:52 +3:37 37 Jan Prell 44:09 +3:54 38 Krzysztof Gdula 44:11 +3:56 39 Villads Nyegaard 44:32 +4:17 40 Jerguš Melichercík 44:33 +4:18 41 Eduard John 44:37 +4:22 42 Shuntaro Yamada 44:44 +4:29 43 Porter Melvin 44:46 +4:31 44 João Vigário 44:47 +4:32 45 Shogo Mikami 45:02 +4:47 46 Sagan Goertz 45:11 +4:56 47 Magnus Dollerup 45:14 +4:59 48 Alwin Beyer 45:34 +5:19 49 Tadeáš Pazourek 45:50 +5:35 50 Hayden Vimpani 45:56 +5:41 51 Ben Koenig 45:57 +5:42 52 Mathias Petersen 45:59 +5:44 53 Grayson Franks 46:03 +5:48 54 Casper Fransson 46:29 +6:14 55 Niclas Look 46:41 +6:26 56 Oliver Grande 47:10 +6:55 57 Hugo Ramalho 47:18 +7:03 58 Kacper Zygmuntowicz 47:44 +7:29 59 Aron Dahlberg 47:50 +7:35 60 Jacob Hines 47:59 +7:44 61 Clayson Kabetaj

Mixed Event Team Relay This will be the 5th edition of the Mixed Team Relay event at the world championships. Each relay team consisted of 6 riders which could be made up of: 1 Elite Men or 1 Under-23 Men rider, 1 Under-23 Men or 1 Junior Men rider, 1 Junior Men rider, 1 Elite Women or 1 Under-23 Women rider, 1 Under-23 Women or 1 Junior Women rider, 1 Junior Women rider,

Each rider must also be participating in an individual event at the world championships. Each rider rides on lap, with each nation choosing the starting order of their riders.

Medals table

See also 2025–26 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup 2025 UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships

External links Official Website

References