Eritrea at the 2026 UCI Road World Championships, Montréal

Eritrea's elite men's road race at the 2026 UCI Road World Championships in Montréal finished without a survivor: Biniam Girmay, Henok Mulubrhan and Merhawi Kudus all recorded DNF in the 273.4km race from Brossard to Avenue du Parc on 27 September.

Girmay was the biggest name in the 16-rider move that went clear soon after the flag, and he stayed with the strongest men when the group tore itself apart on the Montréal circuit. The break led by 2:41 with 253km to go before France's Bruno Armirail drove the chase that swallowed it with 106km remaining. Van Aert, Van der Poel, Onley, Roglič and Simmons then lit up the finale.

Brandon McNulty (United States) attacked late to win solo in 6:17:04, becoming the first American elite men's road race world champion since Lance Armstrong in 1993. Michael Matthews (Australia) took second and Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands) third. Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier, named in Eritrea's startlist entry, does not appear in the official classification.

Eritrea's only entrant in the elite women's road race, Monaliza Chneslasie, recorded DNF in the 180.1km race on 26 September, which ran over eight laps of the 13.4km Mount Royal circuit.

Demi Vollering (Netherlands) won the title in 4h 45' 09", with Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Poland) finishing on the same time and Elisa Longo Borghini (Italy) third at four seconds. Marlen Reusser (Switzerland) was fourth at eight seconds.

The race started in Brossard at 09:00 local time and Vollering reached the Avenue du Parc finish at 13:45, well inside the 14:10 slot the organisers had scheduled for the winner.

The elite women's road race was the sixth of the Championships' seven days of racing, and the last before the elite men close the event on the Mount Royal circuit.

Neither of Eritrea's riders in the men's under-23 road race reached the finish on 25 September: Nahom Efriem and Milkiyas Maekele both recorded DNF in the 174.2km race, which covered thirteen laps of the 13.4km Mount Royal circuit.

Ashlin Barry (United States) won in 4h 17' 35", with Héctor Álvarez (Spain) second at 53 seconds and Jesper Stiansen (Norway) third on the same time.

The race set off from Montréal at 09:00 local time and Barry reached Avenue du Parc at 13:17. Ethiopia's three starters — Amaniel Desta, Tekle Alemayo and Aron Tekle — also failed to finish, so no rider from either country was classified in the under-23 men's race.

The under-23 men reached the circuit after the run-in from Montréal, and the 13 laps that followed included the Voie Camillien-Houde climb — 2.3km at an average of 6.2 per cent — and the Chemin de la Polytechnique, whose sections run above 11 per cent.