Trinidad and Tobago’s cyclist Jadian Neaves was a 48th-place finisher in the men’s under-23 time trial from 68 riders when the 2026 UCI Road Cycling World Championships continued in Montréal, Canada, yesterday.
The reigning back-to-back national under-23 road race and time trial champion, the 23-year-old Neaves, clocked a time of 41 minutes, 42.01 seconds over the distance of 31.3 kilometres to finish four minutes, 16.85 seconds behind the winner, the Netherlands’ Ryan Gil, who won gold in 37 minutes, 26.16 seconds, with Italian Nicolas Milesi taking the silver in 37 minutes, 33.17 seconds, and Spain’s Hector Alvarez, the bronze in 37 minutes, 38.04 seconds.
Neaves will now shift his attention to the 174-kilometre men’s Under-23 road race on Friday from 9 am.
A two-time bronze medal winner at the 2024 Junior Pan American Track Championships, he also got a bronze in the under-23 road race at the 2025 Caribbean Road Championships.
On Sunday, SX-time national champion Teniel Campbell was a 25th-place finisher in the women’s elite individual time trial contested over 39.2 kilometres that started from Avenue du Parc and returned for a scenic and demanding finish at the Jeanne Mance Park and featured a field of 52 entrants.
The 28-year-old Campbell, the 2018 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games road race champion, completed the course in 55 minutes, 32.19 seconds, to be five minutes and 07.75 seconds adrift of the winner, Switzerland’s Marlen Reusser, who won in 50:24.44 minutes.
Switzerland’s Reusser and Belgian Remco Evenepoel ruled the first day of competition.
The first rainbow jersey awarded went to Reusser, who celebrated her 35th birthday in spectacular fashion as she retained the title she claimed last year in Kigali, Rwanda.
She was followed by two newcomers on the Women Elite ITT podium: Great Britain’s Zoe Bäckstedt and Germany’s Franziska Koch.
Soon after, Remco Evenepoel retained his rainbow jersey in the Men Elite ITT. The Belgian superstar made history by becoming the first rider to win the title in four successive editions.
After Stirling, Scotland (Great Britain, 2023), Zürich (Switzerland, 2024) and Kigali (Rwanda, 2025), he ruled Montréal ahead of Italy’s Filippo Ganna and France’s Paul Seixas.
Marlen Reusser powered to her fifth ITT UCI World Championships medal – two gold, two silver and one bronze – thanks to an average speed of 46.660 km/hr.
At the first checkpoint, she had the fifth-best time, 10 seconds behind Bäckstedt, former ITT UCI World Champion as a junior (2022) and under-23 (2025) rider.
Her strategy and power saw her claim victory with a time of 50:24.44, just over 40 seconds ahead of Bäckstedt. Koch registered the third best time at every checkpoint and eventually secured bronze. Forty-seven riders representing 33 nations participated in the race.
Backstedt was second in 51:04.55 minutes, with Koch taking the bronze medal in 61:09.98 minutes.
Campbell, who last year placed 23rd in the time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda, next competes in the 180.4 kilometres women’s elite road race, which is carded for Saturday, September 26, in which she will be among the field of 177 riders.
