{"id":171380,"date":"2025-09-26T22:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171380\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T22:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:40:10","slug":"schedule-cycling-world-championships-day-7-elite-jr-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171380\/","title":{"rendered":"Schedule Cycling World Championships Day 7: Elite, Jr Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first wave of road races on the Kigali circuit has produced wild and unpredictable outcomes, and Saturday’s double-header should be no different.<\/p>\n

\"Vollering\"<\/p>\n

Vollering previews the road course on Thursday. (Photo: Dario Belingheri\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Updated September 26, 2025 04:01PM<\/p>\n

The UCI road world championships<\/a> turn up the volume Saturday with two races featuring the women at center stage.<\/p>\n

The junior women race in the morning before the best riders in the world will clash over the challenging Kigali circuit.<\/p>\n

The first wave of road races has produced wild and unpredictable outcomes, and Saturday\u2019s double-header should be no different.<\/p>\n

With a few top names missing, including two-time defending world champion Lotte Kopecky and Marianne Vos, the women\u2019s elite race could be a bit more wide open.<\/p>\n

The top favorites will see a Tour de France Femmes rematch between Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot<\/a>, already a road world champ in 2014, and Demi Vollering<\/a>, who\u2019s yet to win the stripes.<\/p>\n

Other top favorites include Kasia Niewadiadoma, time trial winner Marlen Reusser, and outsider Kim Le Court, who could become Africa\u2019s first world champion. Elisa Longo Borghini and former three-time world champ Anna Van der Breggen are two heavyweights who cannot be overlooked.<\/p>\n

The 164.6km race over 11 passages on the brutal circuit will deliver a worthy winner.<\/p>\n

In the junior women\u2019s race in the morning, Canada\u2019s Sidney Swierenga lines up as one of the top favorites. Great Britain\u2019s strong duo of Erin Boothman and Arabella Blackburn pack medal potential, and Spain\u2019s Paula Ostiz will be in the mix.<\/p>\n

Team USA brings a balanced junior women\u2019s squad with Lidia Cusack, Liliana Edwards, Alexis Jaramillo, and Alyssa Sarkisov on the start line.<\/p>\n

For the elite women\u2019s road race, last year\u2019s runner-up Chlo\u00e9 Dygert<\/a> headlines the squad, but the climb-heavy route could prove too much for her. The demanding course could tilt more in favor of Ruth Edwards.<\/p>\n

Day 1 \u2013 Sunday, September 21<\/p>\n

Women Elite Individual Time Trial: Marlen Reussen<\/a>
Men Elite Individual Time Trial: Remco Evenepoel<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 2 \u2013 Monday, September 22<\/p>\n

Women Under-23 Individual Time Trial: Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt<\/a>
Men Under-23 Individual Time Trial: Jakob S\u00f6derqvist<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 3 \u2013 Tuesday, September 23<\/p>\n

Women Junior Individual Time Trial: Megan Arens<\/a>
Men Junior Individual Time Trial: Michiel Mouris<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 4 \u2013 Wednesday, September 24<\/p>\n

Mixed Relay Team Time Trial: Australia<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Day 5 \u2013 Thursday, September 25<\/p>\n

Women Under-23 Road Race: C\u00e9lia Gery<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 6 \u2013 Friday, September 26<\/p>\n

Men Junior Road Race: Harry Hudson<\/a>
Men Under-23 Road Race: Lorenzo Finn<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 7 \u2013 Saturday, September 27<\/p>\n

08:20 \u2013 Women Junior Road Race
12:05 \u2013 Women Elite Road Race<\/p>\n

Day 8 \u2013 Sunday, September 28<\/p>\n

09:45 \u2013 Men Elite Road Race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first wave of road races on the Kigali circuit has produced wild and unpredictable outcomes, and Saturday’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,68224,85,100855,100856,75493,75494,111820,67883],"class_list":["post-171380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-parent_category-road","tag-sports","tag-tag-chloe-dygert","tag-tag-demi-vollering","tag-tag-pauline-ferrand-prevot","tag-tag-uci-road-world-championships","tag-tag-womens-racing","tag-type-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171380","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=171380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}