2025 UCI Road World Championships – Riders to watch<\/p>\n
The 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Kigali feature one of the toughest men\u2019s road race courses in Worlds history. With 5,475 metres of climbing on a 267.5 km route, the parcours is set to favour pure climbers – above all reigning champion Poga\u010dar, arriving less than two months after sealing his fourth Tour de France title<\/a>.<\/p>\n With Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a champion Jonas Vingegaard absent, Poga\u010dar\u2019s main rival is expected to be 2022 world champion Evenepoel, while Britain\u2019s Tom Pidcock<\/a>, Italy\u2019s Giulio Ciccone, and Mexico\u2019s Isaac Del Toro are among the outsiders.<\/p>\n The women\u2019s road race is shorter at 165 km, but with 3,350 metres of climbing it promises to be just as demanding. Olympic mountain bike champion Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot is targeting a first road world title for 11 years, but will face stiff competition from the Netherlands\u2019 Demi Vollering<\/a>, Italy\u2019s Elisa Longo Borghini<\/a>, and Poland\u2019s Katarzyna Niewiadoma<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 40.6 km time trial, featuring 680 metres of elevation gain, should see another showdown between Evenepoel and Poga\u010dar, with Jay Vine of Australia, Bruno Armirail of France, and Stefan K\u00fcng of Switzerland also in contention.<\/p>\n In the women\u2019s time trial, the spotlight will be on two-time champion Chlo\u00e9 Dygert<\/a>, with Switzerland\u2019s Marlen Reusse<\/a>r chasing gold after three podium finishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025 UCI Road World Championships – Riders to watch The 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Kigali feature…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-154656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}