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  "description": "It's here, the weird weekend between the Tour(s) de Suisse and Tour de France when a large segment of the pro pelotons return home to race for the opportunity to wear their nation's colours for the next 12 months.\n\nWhile the most exciting or intriguing results may get more coverage, we'll collate the big results here to keep you apprised of the new class of national champions crowned this June.\n\nItalicised name denotes back-to-back title; bold for 2026 double champions.\n\n\n2026 national champions",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-27T13:49:29.000Z",
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  "textContent": "It's here, the weird weekend between the Tour(s) de Suisse and Tour de France when a large segment of the pro pelotons return home to race for the opportunity to wear their nation's colours for the next 12 months.\n\nWhile the most exciting or intriguing results may get more coverage, we'll collate the big results here to keep you apprised of the new class of national champions crowned this June.\n\nItalicised name denotes back-to-back title; bold for 2026 double champions.\n\n### 2026 national champions – road race:\n\n  * Ecuador: Kevin Navas (Best PC Ecuador) and **Ana Maria Torres** (Best PC Hino-Chia-In)\n  * USA: _Quinn Simmons_ (Lidl-Trek) and Kate Courtney\n  * Eritrea: Milkias Maekele (Ineos Grenadiers Academy) and Suzana Fiseha\n  * Canada: Jérôme Gauthier (Project Echelon) and Maggie Coles-Lyster (Human Powered Health)\n  * Spain: Marcel Camprubí (Pinarello-Q36.5) and **Mireia Benito** (AG Insurance-Soudal)\n  * Portugal: **António Morgado** (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Maria Martins (Canyon-SRAM)\n  * Poland: Kacper Maciejuk (Voster Team) and **Dominika Włodarczyk** (UAE Team ADQ)\n  * Ukraine: **_Yuliia Biriukova_** (Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi)\n  * Kazakhstan: Nicolas Vinokourov (XDS-Astana) and Rinata Sultanova (UAE Devo)\n  * Italy: Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) and _Elisa Longo Borghini_(UAE Team ADQ)\n  * France: Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ United) and Célia Gery (FDJ United-Suez)\n  * Czech Republic: **_Mathias Vacek_** (Lidl-Trek) and **Julia Kopecký** (SD Worx-Protime)\n  * Slovakia: **_Lukáš Kubiš_** (Unibet Rose Rockets) and _**Viktória Chladoňová** _(Visma-Lease a Bike)\n  * Switzerland: Jan Christen (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and _Steffi Häberlin_ (SD Worx-Protime)\n  * Germany: Felix Engelhardt (Jayco-AlUla) and **_Franziska Koch_** (FDJ United-Suez)\n  * Ireland: Seth Dunwoody (Bahrain Victorious Devo) and **Lara Gillespie** (UAE Team ADQ)\n  * Afghanistan: **_Fariba Hashimi_** (Vini Fantini-BePink)\n  * Norway: Anders Skaarseth (Uno-X Mobility) and Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset (Uno-X Mobility)\n  * Slovenia: Roman Ermakov (Bahrain Victorious) and **Nika Bobnar** (Nexetis)\n  * Luxembourg: _Arthur Kluckers_ (Tudor) and _Marie Schreiber_ (SD Worx-Protime)\n  * Mauritius: Jeremy Raboude and **_Kim Le Court-Pienaar_** (AG Insurance-Soudal)\n  * Austria: Michael Gogl (Alpecin-Premier Tech) and Katharina Sadnik (Visma-Lease a Bike)\n  * Great Britain: Fred Wright (Pinarello-Q36.5) and **Zoe Bäckstedt** (Canyon-SRAM)\n  * Netherlands: Wilco Kelderman (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Lieke Nooijen (Visma-Lease a Bike)\n  * Belgium: Rune Herregodts (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Shari Bossuyt (AG Insurance-Soudal)\n  * Denmark: Magnus Cort (Uno-X Mobility) and Amalie Dideriksen (Cofidis)\n\n\n\n### 2026 national champions – ITT:\n\n  * Ecuador: Jonathan Klever Caicedo (Wheeltop Rotor Chengdu from 22/6) and **Ana Maria Torres** (Best PC Hino-Chia-In)\n  * USA: _Artem Schmidt_ (Netcompany-Ineos) and Taylor Knibb\n  * Latvia: Kristiāns Belohvoščiks (BIKE AID) and _Dana Rožlapa_\n  * Netherlands: Huub Artz (Lotto Intermarché) and Daniek Hengeveld (Visma-Lease a Bike)\n  * Kazakhstan: _Yevgeniy Fedorov_ (XDS-Astana) and Rinata Sultanova (UAE Devo)\n  * Switzerland: Jan Christen (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Jasmin Liechti (Nexetis)\n  * Italy: _Filippo Ganna_ (Netcompany-Ineos)\n  * Spain: Pablo Castrillo (Movistar) and **_Mireia Benito_** (AG Insurance-Soudal)\n  * France: Rémi Cavagna (Groupama-FDJ United) and Célia Le Mouël (Ma Petite Entreprise)\n  * Great Britain: _Ethan Hayter_ (Soudal-Quick Step) and **_Zoe Bäckstedt_** (Canyon-SRAM)\n  * Canada: Derek Gee-West (Lidl-Trek) and Nadia Gontova (Liv AlUla Jayco)\n  * Czech Republic: **_Mattias Vacek_** (Lidl-Trek) and **_Julia Kopecký_** (SD Worx-Protime)\n  * Luxembourg: Alex Kirsch (Cofidis) and Nina Berton (EF Education-Oatly)\n  * Poland: Michał Kwiatkowski (Netcompany-Ineos) and **Dominika Włodarczyk** (UAE Team ADQ)\n  * Slovakia: **Lukáš Kubiš** (Unibet Rose Rockets) and _Viktória Chladoňová_(Visma-Lease a Bike)\n  * Norway: _Tobias Foss_ (Netcompany-Ineos) and _Katrine Aalerud_ (Uno-X Mobility)\n  * Ireland: _Ryan Mullen_ (NSN) and **Lara Gillespie** (UAE Team ADQ)\n  * Afghanistan: **_Fariba Hashimi_** (Vini Fantini-BePink)\n  * Monaco: Victor Langellotti (Netcompany-Ineos)\n  * Belgium: Alec Segaert (Bahrain Victorious) and Lotte Claes (Fenix-Premier Tech)\n  * Denmark: Kristian Egholm (Lidl-Trek Future Racing) and Sif Nikoline Bendix Madsen (Aarlborg Cykle-Ring)\n  * Germany: Nils Politt (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and **Franziska Koch** (FDJ United-Suez)\n  * Portugal: **_António Morgado_** (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Ana Caramelo (Matos Mobility Flexaco IHS)\n  * Slovenia: Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe) and **Nika Bobnar** (Nexetis)\n  * Eritrea: _Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier_ (Lidl-Trek) and _Monalisa Araya_ (Canyon-SRAM Generation)\n  * Mauritius: _Alexandre Mayer_ (Burgos Burpellet BH) and **_Kim Le Court-Pienaar_** (AG Insurance-Soudal)\n  * Austria: _Felix Großschartner_ (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and _Christina Schweinberger_ (Fenix-Premier Tech)\n\n",
  "title": "Newly-crowned 2026 national champions summary",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-28T21:43:28.405Z"
}