Canada’s Magdeleine Vallieres celebrates as she crosses the finish line to win the women’s elite road race.Jean Bizimana/Reuters
Canadian Magdeleine Vallieres has won the women’s elite road race at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships
The 24-year-old from Sherbrooke, Que, riding for the U.S.-based EF Education-Oatly team, attacked out of the breakaway on the final climb of the circuit and held on for the victory.
Vallieres shows off her gold medal for the women’s Elite road race.Jerome Delay/The Associated Press
Vallieres finished the 164.6-kilometre course Saturday in four hours 34 minutes 48 seconds. New Zealand’s Niamh Fisher-Black was second, 23 seconds back, and Spain’s Mavi Garcia third, another four seconds in arrears.
“It was my dream to win it, and it’s true now. It’s crazy,” said Valieres, backed by a team that included Canadian Alison Jackson.
“The girls believed in me, so I believed in myself and I really committed to going for it,” said Vallieres. “I prepared well. I knew I was on good form, so I just told myself I didn’t want to have any regrets.”