{"id":909733,"date":"2026-09-26T00:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T00:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909733\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T00:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T00:40:13","slug":"with-the-world-championship-win-in-montreal-ashlin-barry-has-to-re-evaluate-the-style-of-rider-he-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909733\/","title":{"rendered":"With the world championship win in Montreal, Ashlin Barry has to re-evaluate the style of rider he is"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI kept thinking I was going to get caught. I just expected it. Somehow it never happened,\u201d Ashlin Barry said.<\/p>\n

The rider, who turned 19 years old on the day of the men\u2019s under-23 world championship road race, didn\u2019t think the course in Montreal would necessarily suit him. And yet.<\/p>\n

Early in the 174.2-km race that featured 13 laps of the Montreal city circuit, Barry got off the front with a few riders. They were caught. But by 128 km to go, Barry was away with the day\u2019s breakaway along with Samuel Nov\u00e1k (Slovakia), William Heffernan (Australia), Matthew Dodd (Great Britain) and Kristian Egholm (Denmark). They worked well as a group gaining close to two minutes on the bunch. With about 79 km left in the race, Dodd attacked the breakaway on Camillien-Houde. Barry did most of the chasing to reel in the GB rider. On the fourth last lap to go, Egholm attacked on the course\u2019s primary climb. Barry caught him and the duo kept away. After the Pagnuelo climb, Barry was solo.<\/p>\n

The plan was to get ahead early, which he did. If he got caught, then, ideally, he could hang with that group and keep an eye out for another opportunity.<\/p>\n

Ashlin Barry may ride for the U.S., but home is a nuanced thing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Ashlin\u2019s father, Michael Barry, was watching his son from the roadside. \u201cAshlin was smiling when he\u2019d pass by. He seemed comfortable. He managed his effort well,\u201d Michael said after the race. It was around a lap and a half to go when Michael, who was then with Steve Bauer, said he figured Ashlin could make it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not always a climber who wins on this course. Dede told Ashlin how she won on the climb and she wasn\u2019t the strongest on that day,\u201d Michael said of his wife and Ashlin\u2019s mom who took the 2002 women\u2019s World Cup on the top of the Camillien-Houde.<\/p>\n

Michael also revealed the level of preparation Ashlin put into worlds. \u201cA couple of months ago, Ashlin began to plan for this race. He looked at the distances up the climbs. They are around five minutes at most, so considering his power numbers, he figured he could be up there,\u201d Michael said.<\/p>\n

In the end, Ashlin Barry triumphed solo<\/a>. To his father, the chaotic racing behind, and the fact that many of the riders seemed cooked, played into Ashlin\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n

In the days ahead of the race, publicly, Ashlin said he wasn\u2019t sure the climbs for Montreal really suited him. But after the race, with the rainbow jersey on, his victory and research seemed to have him tentatively re-evaluating himself for the world. \u201cI guess the race shows I can go up hills pretty well. I\u2019m definitely a bigger rider. I think people kind of make the assumption I can\u2019t go uphill well, and so maybe I internalize that a little,\u201d he said. \u201cI was being honest when I said I wasn\u2019t sure this course suited me. I didn\u2019t have huge expectations for this road race. To perform the way I did is just incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael mentioned that while popular opinion might pigeonhole Ashlin a bit, the coaches who Ashlin works with at Visma-Lease a Bike, are careful not to set limits on the young rider. \u201cThey know he\u2019s still developing,\u201d Michael said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think today probably makes me more uncertain of the type of rider I am,\u201d Ashlin said. \u201cI really like the classics. I think that kind of racing suits me well, really long days on the bike and chaotic racing. But I think I\u2019m just a good all-rounder so I\u2019ll see what I can do and try to be good at everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI kept thinking I was going to get caught. I just expected it. Somehow it never happened,\u201d Ashlin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-909733","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\/909733","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=909733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}