Australian Felicity Wilson-Haffenden claimed the U23 Girls’s Particular person Time Trial (ITT) title on the ongoing 2026 UCI Street World Championships in Montréal, Canada, clocking 27 minutes and 40.72 seconds over the 20.3km course on Monday.
The 21-year-old rider completed 3 minutes and 42 seconds forward of Rwanda’s Jazilla Mwamikazi, who was the best-placed Rwandan rider after ending thirty ninth amongst 52 rivals.
The championships are being held in Montréal following final yr’s version in Kigali.
The U23 girls’s time trial was held with out defending champion Zoe Bäckstedt of Nice Britain, who opted to compete within the elite girls’s time trial as an alternative.
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The race began on Avenue du Parc, one among central Montréal’s main streets, earlier than winding its method to a demanding end at Jeanne-Mance Park, the place Haffenden secured the world title.
Haffenden was adopted by Netherlands’ Nienke Vinke and Belgium’s Luca Vierstraete, who accomplished the rostrum.
Vinke completed 48 seconds behind the Australian, whereas Vierstraete crossed the road in third.
Apart from Mwamikazi, Rwanda was additionally represented by Mariate Byukusenge, who completed forty third in 32 minutes and 59.60 seconds, 5 minutes and 19 seconds behind the winner.
The championships proceed on Tuesday with the Blended Relay Crew Time Trial over 40.6km, adopted by the lads’s Junior ITT over 20.3km and the ladies’s Junior ITT over 10.7km.
Rwanda will probably be represented within the junior occasions by Brian Ishimwe and Pacifique Byusa within the males’s class, whereas Donatha Akimana and Yvonne Masengesho will compete within the girls’s class.
Girls’s U23 ITT outcomes
- Felicity Wilson-Haffenden (Australia) — 27:40.72
- Nienke Vinke (Netherlands)
- Luca Vierstraete (Belgium)
- Viktória Chladoňová (Slovenia)
- Mackenzie Coupland (Australia)
