PhilCycling road tilt set in February

The PhilCycling National Championships for Road 2026 will be held from 17 to 20 February next year, the International Cycling Union, the sport’s international federation, announced on its website recently.

The national road championships will again be staged in and around a technical course with Tagaytay City as the main hub and the municipalities of the Eighth District of Cavite and First District in Batangas Province as the other major routes.

Integrated Cycling Federation president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino, also the president of the Philippine Olympic Committee, said the 2026 nationals will also showcase the brand new Tagaytay CT Velodrome, which will host the 2026 Asian Cycling Confederation (ACC) Track Championships from 25 to 31 March.

This marks the first time in 31 years that the Philippines is hosting the Asian track championships in Quezon City and Subic. The last time was in 1995 when the country hosted both the Asian Road and Track Championships at the Amoranto Velodrome, which was demolished to give way to a football pitch.

The 2026 nationals will actually begin with the Criterium races on February 16, followed by the Individual Time Trial on 17 February and the Road Races from 18 to 20 February.

Categories will be in the Elite, Under 23, Juniors and Youth both for men and women.

A Masters category will be incorporated in the nationals’ program to determine the country’s representatives to the Asian Road Championships in Saudi Arabia. The ACC has yet to announce the dates.

And as usual, the top performers in the Juniors races will be included on the national team to the Asian championships as incentive.