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Mara Winter finished fourth at the 2026 UCI Road World Championships in Montréal, 33 seconds off the medals on a 134km circuit with 2,690m of climbing. That gap is a chase group, not a defeat — Winter was still there with a shot at bronze deep into one of the hardest routes on the calendar.
Fleur Moors got dropped by leaders Viktória Chladoňová and Isabella Holmgren, and Winter was one of three riders — alongside Talia Appleton and Eline De Schepper — who chased to bring her back. They never closed the gap to bronze, but the fact they were close enough to threaten it says more about Winter's level than the final placing does. Chladoňová beat Holmgren in the sprint for the win; Winter left Montréal with a top-five finish on a course built to punish exactly this kind of racing.
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