If you\u2019ve been following cycling for a while, you may be seeing some familiar names tearing it up on the streets of Montreal at the 2026 road worlds. And they are also doing pretty damn well.<\/p>\n
During the junior time trial worlds, there were a couple of names that stood out\u2014\u00c9lodie Malois, Elly Moore and Carter De Veer. They have some parents who were pretty damn great back in the day. Of course, good genes isn\u2019t everything (insert Sidney Sweeney joke for SEO here), you still need to train just like folks did, but it\u2019s still cool to see.<\/p>\n
The Moores and Malois<\/p>\n
\u00c9lodie Malois has been having a great 2026. She won the Tour de L\u2019Abitibi Femmes<\/a>, took a bunch of national championships, and finished a respectable 19th at the TT worlds. Her father, John, was also a great rider\u2014having raced the points race at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. He\u2019s still very active in cycling as a coach.<\/p>\n Elly Moore is one of two talented juniors from a cycling family. She\u2019s racing the road worlds and finished 27th in the TT. She\u2019s also had a terrific year, finishing second overall at Abitibi, including a stage win there, and multiple medals at the nationals.<\/p>\n Elly Moore solos to victory at Tour de l\u2019Abitibi<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Her brother Evan is also a talent<\/a>\u2014on both the road and \u2018cross. He had some fine rides in Europe this past winter.<\/p>\n Their parents, Mike and Amy, are also cyclists. Amy Moore was a former national team rider and pro, notably for the American powerhouse team back in the day, Saturn as well as T-Mobile. She, like Elly, also competed at the worlds<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Holmgrens<\/p>\n TheHolmgren twins are some of the best riders in the world, whether it\u2019s on the dirt or road. They both race for Lidl-Trek, and between the two of them have a boatload of huge results, including rainbow jerseys, worlds medals, pro wins and national titles. Ava just had a fine ride in the under-23, finishing sixth<\/a>, and will join her sister Bella in the road race.<\/p>\n Why Isabella Holmgren is Canada\u2019s best hope for rainbow jersey in Montreal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Their brother Gunnar<\/a> is also a talented MTB rider, and their folks, Lisa and Rob have been in the sport for decades. Both of them raced, and Rob is now the national team coach down under at Aus Cycling.<\/p>\n De Veer and Walton<\/p>\n Carter De Veer is a name you\u2019ve probably seen on the pages of Canadian Cycling Magazine. He won this year\u2019s Tour de L\u2019Abitibi<\/a> and has been racing on the Bahrain Victorious feeder team in Europe. His dad, Craig, was a long-time bike racer and has been a Cycling Canada staffer for years.<\/p>\n Jonas Walton is a seriously talented time triallist, who finished sixth at the road worlds in Rwanda in the under-23 category, and 16th on Monday. The national TT champ has been racing in France for CIC Pro Cycling Academy, with some great rides. His father, Brian, rode for teams like 7-Eleven and Motorola with Steve Bauer, and also took the silver at the 1996 Olympics in the points race.<\/p>\n Another day, another loooooong breakaway for Jonas Walton<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s a couple of kids with some very famous parents when it comes to pro racing, in fact, some of their parents even raced on the same team, US Postal. (Lance Armstrong\u2019s kids seem to prefer football.)<\/p>\n Barry, Hincapie, Noval and Wiggins<\/p>\n Ashlin Barry, the Girona-born, Toronto-living, Canadian-U.S. dual citizen who switched to an American licence after racing with a Canadian one, is the son of Olympic silver medallist Dede and former WorldTour rider Michael Barry. Ashlin Barry rides for the Visma-Lease a Bike deva team and finished fourth in his first year as an U23 in the TT.<\/a><\/p>\n Barry\u2019s former Postal teammate, George Hincapie\u2014one of the best Classics riders of the 90s and Tour de France stage winner\u2014is the father of Enzo, who is one of the big favourites in the junior men\u2019s road race.<\/p>\n Barry, Hincapie go 1-2 in Germany<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n There\u2019s another name that runs in the family\u2014not just the last name, but the first too. Spain\u2019s Benjamin Noval won the junior time trial<\/a>, and his father\u2014also Benjamin Noval\u2014was a pro with a 12-year career riding for various teams, including Postal, Astana and Tinkoff.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s Ben Wiggins, son of Sir Brad, who\u2019s racing in the under-23 category. His dad won the Tour de France, Olympic gold, and was one of the greatest TT riders of his era.<\/p>\n Wiggins, Hincapie and Barry actually all grew up in Girona when their parents were racing, and even hung out as kids. There\u2019s also Aussie star racing in Montreal, Cameron Rogers. His parents Raeleigh Tennant and Peter Roger raced, as did his uncle, Michael, a former multiple world TT champ.<\/p>\n Now, they are tearing it up on the global scene.<\/p>\n The MTB stars of of the past<\/p>\n If you followed MTBing in the 90s, you may recognize another last name, H\u00f8ydahl. Jonas Kind H\u00f8ydahl\u2019s pop, Rune, was one of the stars of off-road racing, and is one of the few riders\u2014along with John Tomac (his kid races motocross, however)\u2014that can say he won a XCO and DH World Cup, something nowadays that is pretty much impossible to imagine.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a few other names that you may not at first recognize, but also have parents you definitely remember if you followed cycling 30 years ago.<\/p>\n Patrik Pezzo Rosola is an Italian junior and finished fifth in the TT. His mom, the great Paola Pezzo, won two Olympic MTB golds; his dad, Paolo Rosola, was a pro road racer.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s Bogdan Zabelinskiy. He\u2019s from Cyprus and finished eighth in the U23 TT. His mom, Olga Zabelinskaya, is an Olympic medallist; his dad, Sergei Ivanov, won a Tour stage. Plus, his grandfather, Sergei Sukhoruchenkov, was also an Olympic champion.<\/p>\n Watch Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt tear up when Tom Pidcock surprises her with special gift<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n (There are all kinds of other sons or daughters of former pros in the pro tanks too, Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt, Mathieu van der Poel, Manuel Beloki, and on and on and on.) So if you see a last name that seems familiar (and there are so many not even mentioned here) go over to ProCyclingStats<\/a> and check their r\u00e9sum\u00e9\u2014it\u2019s highly probable their folks were pretty, pretty good.<\/p>\n But at the end of the day, these talented cyclists are hardly just sons or daughters of former pros or bike racers\u2014they are making a name for themselves with hard work. Because it\u2019s not just about cycling DNA or having a famous last name\u2014you also have to put in the hours, suffer through the bad days and actually go out there and race your bike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve been following cycling for a while, you may be seeing some familiar names tearing it up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[220587,49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-906573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2026-road-worlds","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906573","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=906573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}