Seixas\u2019 first (hopefully not last!) trip here.<\/a><\/p>\nTom Pidcock is another \u201crookie.\u201d The British rider\u2019s job r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes two Olympic mountain bike titles and a Strade Bianche dub. The hilly circuits in Qu\u00e9bec and Montr\u00e9al should absolutely work for his style. A cagey ride could see him take Qu\u00e9bec, methinks. But if not, bring it on Camille-Houde. Speaking of mountains, the dude just took another rainbow jersey on Sunday at the world mountain bike champs.<\/p>\n
His Canadian teammate, Nickolas Zukowsky, will almost certainly be there too, he\u2019s on the road worlds so the two Grand Prixs would be a logical choice.<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s Michael Matthews. He\u2019s definitely spent some time racing in Canada.<\/p>\n
The Australian has won the GPCQM four times, including three dubs in Qu\u00e9bec and one in Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n
His four wins are already a record, and he will have a shot to add a fifth title to his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 this September.
Matteo Jorgenson will lead the charge for Visma-Lease a Bike. The American has won Paris-Nice twice and finished second at Tirreno-Adriatico this year, adding another rider who could absolutely light up either Quebec or Montreal.
Oh, there\u2019s more.<\/p>\n
Quinn Simmons, Giulio Ciccone, Arnaud De Lie, Michal Kwiatkowski and Ben Healy are also among the confirmed starters.<\/p>\n
Simmons comes to Canada as U.S. national champion. Ciccone is doing pretty solid too, with wins at the 2025 Cl\u00e1sica San Sebasti\u00e1n and the KOM jersey at the Giro d\u2019Italia and Tour de France. De Lie won the<\/p>\n
Quebec race in 2023. Kwiatkowski is a former world champion, and Healy has a Tour de France stage win and a third-place finish at the 2025 world championships on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9. Some mega-talent.<\/p>\n
Gee-West leads Canadian contingent<\/p>\n
The home riders will have their own reason to believe they can make an impact.
Derek Gee-West will lead the Canadian contingent in both races. The Lidl\u2013Trek rider is the reigning Canadian time trial champion and finished fourth overall at the 2025 Giro d\u2019Italia. With the world championships coming to Montr\u00e9al a week later, a strong performance on home roads would be particularly significant. The Canadian national TT champ raced the GP back in 2024, so it will be nice to see him here. The Qu\u00e9bec course isn\u2019t perfect for him\u2014but he can definitely fly up Mont Royal.<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll be joined by Guillaume Boivin, a three-time Canadian road champion; Pier-Andr\u00e9 C\u00f4t\u00e9, the 2023 Pan American road race champion; 2026 Canadian road champion J\u00e9r\u00f4me Gauthier; and Michael Woods, who has won stages at both the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and took bronze at the 2018 world championships. (He\u2019s back!)<\/p>\n
The timing of this year\u2019s GPCQM adds another layer to an already strong start list. Riders will get their final chance to race the Qu\u00e9bec and Montr\u00e9al roads before returning to the same part of the country for the world championships.<\/p>\n
For some, the two races will be about winning one of the most prestigious one-day races in North America. For others, they will be the last serious test before the biggest week of the season.<\/p>\n
Canadian Cycling Magazine will be on the ground at both the Grand Prixs and the road worlds. If you can, you should try and make it too! The road worlds haven\u2019t been here since 2003, so it\u2019s hardly a regular thing to have the biggest race of the calendar in our country. But if you can\u2019t, donchu worry, we got you covered with all kinds of reports and interviews and content. Our Instagram channel will be busy, as will all our other social channels, trust me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We Canadian cycling fans are about to be spoiled. The Grands Prix Cyclistes de Qu\u00e9bec et de Montr\u00e9al…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-883447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}