Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel etched his name into the history books with a dominant fourth successive world time trial victory in Montreal on Sunday.
The 26-year-old Belgian came into the men's ITT at the 2026 UCI Road World Championships as the overwhelming favorite, and he did not disappoint.
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Evenepoel, who was the last rider down the ramp as the defending champion, already was more than half a minute ahead of the rest of the field by the second intermediate time check, just over halfway through the race.
By the finish, he had put almost a minute into second-place Filippo Ganna, with Paul Seixas taking third, another 15 seconds back.
Evenepoel became the first man to win the time trial world title four times in a row, while also equaling the record number of overall titles held by German Tony Martin and Swiss Fabian Cancellara.
"It's amazing," Evenepoel said. "It was obviously the goal to come and win here for the fourth time in a row. It was a big motivation. I'm super happy. It was a wonderful experience."
Already the Olympic champion in both this discipline and the road race, Evenepoel has not lost a time trial since the 2025 Tour de France.
He has enjoyed his best season to date, winning the Amstel Gold Race, Clasica San Sebastian and Grand Prix de Quebec, as well as finishing second behind Tadej Pogacar at the Tour de France 2026.
His next objective will be to win a second road race world title next Sunday and become the first man to do the double in the same year.
"There's quite some time to rest now and enjoy this special course," he said. "Full focus on Sunday from Tuesday."
Ganna had started slowly and was only 10th at the first time check, but by the third, he had moved up into the second spot.
Unfortunately, he could not make any headway into Evenepoel, who did not stop increasing his lead from the start to the finish.
Young Swede Jakob Soderqvist, the Under-23 champion in this discipline last year, was second to Evenepoel at the first two time checks but faded over the last 10 kilometers and finished fifth.
Teenage French starlet Seixas, gauged his effort better and put in a strong ride over the final 10 kilometers to finish third.
Nervous Marlen Reusser Wins Women Elite Individual Time Trial At 2026 UCI Road Worlds
In the women's race, Swiss Marlen Reusser retained her world time trial title, as her main rival, Demi Vollering, finished a disappointing eighth.
Time-trial queen Reusser celebrated her 35th birthday with an ultimately comfortable victory, but not before Briton Zoe Backstedt gave her a scare.
Zoe 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 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.
It was a long time trial for a women's race, where they are usually closer to 20 kilometers.
"Apparently, I coped well, but it made me really nervous," Reusser said. "I was really nervous, and I was not really sure, because we don't have time trials like this often.
"I'm used to 20km, and we had huge discussions with the team, with performance coaches, like 'what is good pacing?'
"Until an hour ago, I was not 100% sure, and also, on the course, I was not 100% sure."
Bäckstedt had been a Junior and twice Under-23 world champion in the discipline, but this race was around 12 kilometers further 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 Men Elite Individual Time Trial Results – Top 25
- Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) – 44:53.13
- Filippo Ganna (Italy) – 45:50.44
- Paul Seixas (France) – 46:06.17
- Brandon McNulty (United States) – 46:18.40
- Jakob Söderqvist (Sweden) – 46:19.31
- Stefan Küng (Mexico) – 46:31.96
- Isaac del Toro (Switzerland) – 46:37.57
- Kasper Asgreen (Denmark) – 46:41.67
- Daan Hoole (Netherlands) – 46:55.34
- Callum Thornley (Great Britain) – 46:55.92
- Alec Segaert (Belgium) – 46:56.90
- Mikkel Bjerg (Denmark) – 46:59.23
- Michael Leonard (Canada) – 47:02.78
- Jasha Sütterlin (Germany) – 47:04.01
- Mattia Cattaneo (Spain) – 47:06.26
- Iván Romeo (Italy) – 47:07.52
- Jan Tratnik (Slovenia) – 47:09.00
- Ethan Hayter (Great Britain) – 47:11.92
- Artem Shmidt (United States) – 47:13.57
- Nelson Oliveira (Portugal) – 47:16.37
- Ivo Oliveira (Portugal) – 47:21.74
- Tobias Foss (Norway) – 47:22.31
- Michał Kwiatkowski (Poland) – 47:26.91
- Pablo Castrillo (Spain) – 47:34.74
- Byron Munton (South Africa) – 47:37.44
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