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Family-friendly Cycling Race Coming to Montreal

Rando Velo Beneva to complement UCI 2026 Road World Championships

The world of competitive cycling will be making its way to Montreal later this year, as the UCI 2026 Road World Championships will take place here from September 20-27. As well, cycling enthusiasts will have the chance to experience this event firsthand on September 19, with the Rando Velo Beneva.

“This will be the largest cycling event to happen in Montreal since the 1976 Summer Olympics,” said Joseph Limaire, who is the Executive Director of the Local Organizing Committee of the 2026 UCI Road World Championships, during a recent gathering at Parc Jean-Drapeau to officially announce the event.

The Rando Velo Beneva is open to participants of all ages, amateurs and elites, either solo, groups or families across the Greater Montreal Area. They will have the option to ride along the official time trial courses from the starting point at the corner of Avenue du Parc and Mount Royal Avenue in the 10, 20, 40 or 70 kilometre distance categories. “Although we will welcome the cycling world, the Rando Velo Beneva will not only promote sports as a means toward a healthy lifestyle, but also a festive atmosphere amongst all communities in Montreal,” added Mr. Limaire.

Registration fees range from $5 to $40 and 6,000 spots are now available; however, it was announced at the press conference that 1,000 registrations were already received earlier that day.

Also on hand at the press conference were Geneviev Tardif, Montreal 2026 event ambassador; Martin Robert and Jean Routhier from Beneva, the event’s title sponsor; Antoine Duchesne, UCI Road World Championships Montreal 2026 Ambassador, plus representatives from the governments of Montreal, Quebec and Canada.

For more information, or to register, go to montreal2026.org.

story and photos by Stuart Nulman

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Stuart Nulman

Stuart Nulman was born and raised in Montreal. He began his journalism career in 1980 as an entertainment reporter/reviewer for the Vanier College student newspaper. Two years later, he worked as a summer student intern at CBC Montreal, where he worked in the English TV news division, CBC Radio and CBC Communications. During the late 80s, he worked as an assistant copy editor and columnist for The Suburban Newspaper for three years, and then joined the staff of the Hampstead/Weekly Herald before it closed in 1991. Stuart also worked as a comedy researcher/writer for the Just For Laughs festival, where he was responsible for creating and editing the festival's entire advertising and program book copy for the 1994 edition, as well as providing background research about comedians who performed there. After a seven-year stint as a technical editor for the flight simulator company CAE Inc., Stuart returned to the world of journalism, writing book reviews, covering the Montreal summer festival scene, conducting celebrity interviews and writing travel pieces for a number of platforms, such as the Montreal Times, BestStory.ca (a long form journalism website), and his blog Stuart Nulman's Grapevine. As well, since 2009, he does a book review segment called "Book Banter", which is heard twice a month on The Stuph File Program with Peter Anthony Holder podcast, which evolved from the segment of the same name he did for 19 years on CJAD's "Holder Tonight/Overnight" program. He also authored the book "Beyond the Mountain: True Tales About Montreal", which was published in 2002 and was a local bestseller, which peaked at #2 on the Gazette's nonfiction best seller list. Stuart is currently semi-retired after working for 20 years at the English Montreal School Board (EMSB), and still writes articles, reads and reviews books, and travels more frequently.

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