Elite Men Road RaceWorld Championships 2027

The Domancy is 2.5 kilometers long at 9.4 percent, with a steepest stretch of 16 percent. Its top comes about 4.5 kilometers into the lap, and the rest is descent and valley road back to Sallanches. Kigali in 2025 had 5,475 meters of climbing in 267.5 kilometers, and 30 riders finished. Montréal in 2026 had 3,803 meters.

Bernard Hinault won here in 1980, also after 20 laps of the Domancy, more than a minute ahead of Gianbattista Baronchelli. Of the 107 starters, 15 finished. The road up the climb is now called Route Bernard Hinault.

Tadej Pogačar is the clear favorite if he starts. He won the title in Zürich in 2024 and in Kigali in 2025, both times after attacking with about 100 kilometers to go. In the 2025 Critérium du Dauphiné he attacked on the Domancy itself and won the stage to Combloux. In 2026 he won Strade Bianche, Milan-San Remo, the Tour of Flanders, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour de France. He has not raced since stage 8 of the 2026 Vuelta, where he crashed while leading the race and broke a collarbone and a vertebra in his neck. His team has given no date for his return, and he has not said whether he will ride in Sallanches.

The open question is Jonas Vingegaard. He has never started the elite road race at the Worlds, and one-day races are the gap in his record. His only one-day win is the 2022 Drôme Classic, his best finish in a Monument is 14th, and at the 2025 European Championships he was dropped with 108 kilometers to go. "I haven't discovered how to perform in them yet," he said before that race. This climb suits him, though. The 2023 Tour de France time trial from Passy to Combloux went over the Domancy, and he beat Pogačar by 1 minute 38 seconds. He won the Giro d'Italia in 2026, broke his collarbone at the Tour and has not raced since. Danish national coach Michael Mørkøv says Vingegaard has told him he wants to be ready for the Worlds. If he starts in form, he is the second favorite.

Paul Seixas will be 20 and racing at home. In 2026 he won La Flèche Wallonne, finished second to Pogačar at Liège-Bastogne-Liège and at Strade Bianche, and was fourth in his first Tour de France. His two Worlds road races so far ended in 13th and 15th place. Isaac del Toro followed Pogačar's attack in Kigali before he was dropped and finished seventh; he was fifth in Montréal and third in the 2026 Tour. Tom Pidcock was seventh in Montréal and lost Milan-San Remo to Pogačar by half a wheel. In Kigali, the course most like this one, he was tenth, nine minutes down.

Remco Evenepoel was second in the 2026 Tour and second in Kigali. Brandon McNulty defends the title he won alone in Montréal, where Pogačar did not start.

Behind them are riders with results on hard one-day courses. Giulio Ciccone was sixth in Kigali and ninth in Montréal. Mattias Skjelmose was fourth in Kigali. Richard Carapaz, the Tokyo Olympic champion, won the mountains classification of the 2026 Tour. Felix Gall, Giulio Pellizzari and Florian Lipowitz have the Grand Tour results for 5,700 meters of climbing and little to show yet in one-day races. In Montréal Gall and Pellizzari did not finish and Lipowitz was 47th.