After a week’s racing in Rwanda, the UCI Road World Championships head into their final weekend with the two blue ribbon events: the women’s and men’s elite road races.

The women’s race comes first, scheduled for this Saturday 27 September, and will see 104 riders from 44 nations competing around the streets of Kigali.

The route for the race comprises 11 laps of a local circuit, with a jagged, sawtooth profile, looping over the Côte de Kigali Golf (0.8km at 8.3%) and the cobbled Côte de Kimihurura (1.3km at 6.3%). The riders will tackle 3,350m of elevation in total, the most of any women’s road race at the Worlds in the professional era.

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Great Britain decided not to field a team in the event. The squad selectors instead chose to prioritise the under-23 women’s race, which was won by France’s Célia Gery on Thursday.