Switzerland's Marlen Reusser retained her Women Elite Individual Time Trial title in Montreal on Sunday, as her main rival at the 2026 UCI Road World Championships, Demi Vollering, finished a disappointing eighth.
Time-trial queen Reusser celebrated her 35th birthday with an ultimately comfortable victory, but not before Briton Zoe Bäckstedt gave her a scare.
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Bäckstedt had been quickest at the first two intermediate time checks on the 39.2-kilometer course, but Reusser powered away in the second half of the race to beat the 21-year-old by 40 seconds, with German Franziska Koch finishing third, a further six seconds back.
Double world champion Reusser has been virtually unbeatable in races against the clock in the last few years.
She is a four-time European champion and has won time trial stages at the Tour de France Femmes and Giro d'Italia Women.
Bäckstedt had been a Junior and twice Under-23 world champion in the discipline, but this race was around 12 kilometers farther than any previous time trial in which she had competed.
Koch's bronze medal continued a dream season for the German, who won Paris-Roubaix in April.
Vollering, the European road race champion, was never in the running for a medal.
2026 UCI Road Worlds Women Elite Individual Time Trial Results – Top 25
- Marlen Reusser (Switzerland) – 46:40.24
- Zoe Bäckstedt (Great Britain) – 47:20.35
- Franziska Koch (Germany) – 47:25.78
- Elisa Longo Borghini (Italy) – 47:30.27
- Cédrine Kerbaol (France) – 47:50.38
- Antonia Niedermaier (Belgium) – 48:28.50
- Lotte Kopecky (Germany) – 48:29.78
- Demi Vollering (Netherlands) – 48:29.78
- Dominika Włodarczyk (Poland) – 48:38.32
- Vittoria Guazzini (Italy) – 48:44.61
- Lotte Claes (Belgium) – 48:49.30
- Lieke Nooijen (Netherlands) – 48:55.46
- Taylor Knibb (United States) – 48:58.33
- Lauretta Hanson (Australia) – 48:59.07
- Anna Morris (France) – 49:30.31
- Juliette Berthet (Great Britain) – 49:36.23
- Christina Schweinberger (Austria) – 49:41.87
- Paula Blasi (Spain) – 49:45.16
- Nadia Gontova (Canada) – 49:52.91
- Mireia Benito (Spain) – 50:16.73
- Kristen Faulkner (United States) – 50:20.21
- Anniina Ahtosalo (Finland) – 50:55.70
- Olivia Baril (Canada) – 51:25.90
- Nika Bobnar (Slovenia) – 51:40.35
- Teniel Campbell (Trinidad & Tobago) – 51:46.99
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