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2025-09-21T10:26:18.456Z
Mireia Benito (Spain) goes provisional second by 1’40” behind Van der Breggen.
2025-09-21T10:25:41.376Z
Chloe Dygert (USA) goes 29″ down at the first split behind Reusser. A very big surprise.
2025-09-21T10:23:58.271Z
Marlen Russer goes fastest at the second time check by 28″ over Van der Breggen. She is absolutely flying out there.
2025-09-21T10:22:38.883Z
Anna Henderson (Great Britain) goes third at the first check 12″ down on Reusser.
2025-09-21T10:19:49.451Z
Aalerud now 5″ slower than Van der Breggen at the second time check.
2025-09-21T10:17:42.086Z
Antonia Niedermaier (Germany) also goes faster than Van der Breggen at the first split as she is currently third behind Reusser and Aalerud.
2025-09-21T10:17:03.816Z
Monica Trinca Colonel (Italy) goes provisionally second at the fnish, 2’11” slower than Van der Breggen.
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2025-09-21T10:14:49.581Z
Marlen Reusser (Switzerland) goes fastest at the first split ahead of Aalerud by 9″
2025-09-21T10:12:21.298Z
Cedrine Kerbaol (France) goes 2’29” slower than Van der Breggen at the finish.
2025-09-21T10:11:00.769Z
Both Chloe Dygert (USA) and Demi Vollering (Netherlands) have started and that is everyone who has started the race.
2025-09-21T10:10:12.051Z
Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Poland) goes 2’31” slower than Van der Breggen at the finish. Provisionally second.
2025-09-21T10:08:26.282Z
New fastest time at time check one is set by Katrine Aalerud (Norway). The Uno-X Mobility rider is absolutely flying. She is 6″ faster than Van der Breggen after 10km of riding.
2025-09-21T10:06:51.024Z
Anna Henderson (Great Britain) rolls off the ramp with just Chloe Dygert (USA) and Demi Vollering (Netherlands) left the start.
2025-09-21T10:04:47.825Z
New fastest time
2025-09-21T10:03:02.088Z
Juliette Labous (France) sets off on her ride now as well. Just three riders to go after her.
2025-09-21T10:01:55.830Z
Antonia Niedermaier (Germany) has now set off on her ride. Former U23 world ITT champion, she will be hoping for a top ride today.
2025-09-21T10:00:15.659Z
Anna van der Breggen is looking very good on the cobbles as she is on her way to setting the fastest time so far. She is just over a kilometre away from the finish.
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2025-09-21T09:58:45.032Z
Brodie Chapman (Australia) sets off on her ride. The national champion will be hoping for a good ride on a course that suits her. However, she only got her TT bike yesterday after losing it on her way over.
2025-09-21T09:56:27.092Z
Van der Breggen goes 1’54” faster than Haugset at the third time check as she heads to the cobbled climb.
2025-09-21T09:55:53.982Z
Marlen Reusser (Switzerland) sets off on her ride.
2025-09-21T09:55:38.086Z
Al-Kuwari (Qatar) has finally finished. She is 32’52” slower than Haugset.
2025-09-21T09:52:15.410Z
The next few riders to start are Marlen Ruesser (Switzerland), Brodie Chapman (Australia), Antonia Niedermaier (Germany), Juliette Labous (France), Anna Henderson (Great Britain), Chloe Dygert (USA) and Demi Vollering (Netherlands)
2025-09-21T09:50:24.354Z
Van der Breggen goes 1’31” faster than Haugset at the second time check. She is flying out on course!
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2025-09-21T09:49:48.489Z
Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset (Norway) finishes her ride with a 46’25” which is 59″ faster than Hao Zhang. Very strong ride by the Coop-Repsol rider.
2025-09-21T09:48:25.970Z
Haugset crossed the line at the third time check and is 46″ faster than Zhang. She is on track to go fastest at the finish.
2025-09-21T09:44:57.838Z
Niewiadoma-Phinney is 48″ slower than Van der Breggen at the first split and Kerbaol is 52″ down on the former World Champion.
2025-09-21T09:43:17.638Z
Current top 5
2025-09-21T09:40:58.169Z
Hao Zhang (China) finishes with a time of 47’24” which is the new fastest time by 1’13” over Paladin.
2025-09-21T09:39:41.406Z
Soraya Paladin (Italy) finishes with a time of 48’37” and puts 1’31” into Nirere.
2025-09-21T09:37:58.714Z
Anna van der Breggen goes fastest at the first time check by 50″ over Haugset.
2025-09-21T09:37:27.060Z
Haugset has gone fastest at the second check, 41″ faster than Zhang.
2025-09-21T09:36:50.619Z
Five riders have finished with Xaveline Nirere still leading. However, this is about to change with Soraya Paladin now going under the flamme rouge.
2025-09-21T09:33:52.215Z
Other riders of note on course are Olivia Baril (Canada), Cedrine Kerbaol (France), Monica Trinca Colonel (Italy) and Ruth Edwards (USA).
2025-09-21T09:32:44.447Z
Zhang, once again, obliterates the time of Paladin. She is 1’12” faster than the Italian at the third time check.
2025-09-21T09:30:17.694Z
Paladin is over a minute faster than Nirere at the third split before the cobbled climb up to the finish.
2025-09-21T09:26:55.798Z
Natalia Frolova (Neutral Athlete) finishes 1’01” down on Nirere. That is a very good ride by Nirere.
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2025-09-21T09:25:42.740Z
Serkalem Watango (Ethiopia) has finished her ride and is 1’56” behind Nirere.
2025-09-21T09:25:01.440Z
Meanwhile, Zhang sets the fastest time at the second time check with a 30’47”. That is 57″ faster than Paladin.
2025-09-21T09:24:15.055Z
Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset (Norway) goes fastest at the first split with a 17’40”, that is 19″ faster than Zhang.
2025-09-21T09:23:33.950Z
Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Poland) starts her ride. She has said in interviews that she was expecting the course to be harder!
2025-09-21T09:23:05.991Z
Paladin goes fastest at the second split with a time of 31’44” which is 49″ faster than Nirere.
2025-09-21T09:20:35.274Z
Anna van der Breggen (Netherlands) sets off on her ride. the First of the massive names and the first of just two former winners at this race.
2025-09-21T09:19:27.757Z
Already at the third time check the four riders who have crossed that point are split by 6’45”!
2025-09-21T09:16:47.596Z
Watango and Frolova will be the next riders to finish.
2025-09-21T09:13:30.882Z
First finisher
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2025-09-21T09:11:34.739Z
Flamme rouge for Nirere and back onto the asphalt again.
2025-09-21T09:11:18.127Z
Paladin (Italy) goes fastest at the first split with a time of 18’33” but is immediately beaten by Hao Zhang (China) with a time of 17’59”, that is an amazing 34″ faster than Paladin.
2025-09-21T09:10:07.600Z
Just before the cobbles, Nirere crossed the third split after 26.6km of racing. She set a time of 40’48”. She is now very close to the finish but still on the cobbles.
2025-09-21T09:08:09.549Z
Nirere is on the final climb of the Kimihurua. The cobbles look rather brutal.
2025-09-21T09:04:46.757Z
Al-Kuwari (Qatar) finally made it to the first time check. She was slower to the first time check than Nirere took to get to the second time check.
2025-09-21T09:03:40.667Z
The next rider off the ramp is the Norwegian rider, Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset.
2025-09-21T09:02:28.396Z
Watango goes through the second time check 47″ behind Nirere.
2025-09-21T09:01:56.237Z
We are getting closer to the first big name favourites of Anna van der Breggen (Netherlands) and Cedrine Kerbaol (France) who are just a few minutes away from starting their efforts.
2025-09-21T08:59:15.061Z
Frolova has just set the exact same time as Nirere at the first time check.
2025-09-21T08:56:42.589Z
Nirere goes through the second split with a 32’33” after 19km of racing.
2025-09-21T08:54:49.776Z
Kiplagat (Kenya) goes through the first time check and she is 3’10” down on the fastest time set by Nirere.
2025-09-21T08:51:31.486Z
Soraya Paladin (Italy) sets off on her ride as one of the first bigger and more known names on the start list.
2025-09-21T08:50:51.942Z
Watango (Ethiopia) goes 18″ slower than Nirere at the first split.
2025-09-21T08:48:02.880Z
Nirere has just taken on the hairpin at the furthest point of the course and she heads back towards the capital again. Huge crowds across the whole route.
2025-09-21T08:47:18.947Z
The Neutral Athlete, Natalia Frolova, passes the Botswana rider, Lobopo Kono on course.
2025-09-21T08:45:55.776Z
Faina Potapova (Kazakhstan) and Kendra Masiga (Kenya) are the latest riders off the start ramp in Kigali.
2025-09-21T08:42:47.550Z
Nirere is coming to the first time check. She sets a time of 19’11” after just over 10km of racing.
2025-09-21T08:39:04.880Z
Altitude is meant to be a big factor in these Championships with today’s race being at around 1500 to 1600 metres above sea level.
2025-09-21T08:33:55.416Z
One rider to focus on is Anna Henderson, the British rider is the only elite women representing Great Britain in these World Championships and she isn’t riding the road race. She has given her full focus on the TT with British Cycling focusing on the U23 and junior women instead.
2025-09-21T08:29:09.018Z
Serkalem Watango (Ethiopia) starts her ride. She will be followed by Jelimo Monica Kiplagat (Kenya), Lobopo Kono (Botswana) and many more. Fantastic to see riders for these smaller nations in the sport.
2025-09-21T08:26:32.433Z
Kholoud Shahine Al-Kuwari (Qatar) is the second rider off the ramp inside the BK Arena. The 35-year-old rider is on a road bike and already has had a couple of shaky moments in the early corners.
2025-09-21T08:23:54.507Z
As expected, absolutely gigantic crowds have packed the course.
2025-09-21T08:22:58.050Z
First rider starts
2025-09-21T08:20:26.286Z
There has been a slight delay to the start hence why Nirere’s start time has moved from 10:10 local time to 10:22’30”. Probably making sure everything is set and ready.
2025-09-21T08:17:31.899Z
Demi Vollering (Netherlands) and Anna Henderson (Great Britain) are two riders who will be hoping for a good result this year. Vollering took silver in the Worlds ITT last year with Henderson taking silver in the Paris Olympics ITT.
2025-09-21T08:15:25.569Z
No defending champion this year. Grace Brown retired at the end of last season with the World and Olympic ITT titles and finished things off with a win in rainbows and on her gold bike at the Chrono des Nations in France.
2025-09-21T08:06:40.443Z
Nirere (Rwanda) will start her ride at 10:22 local time and start the 32nd women’s ITT World Championships as well as the entire World Championships in general.
2025-09-21T08:02:03.260Z
The men’s race comes later today, here is the start times for all the riders involved in both women’s and men’s races…
>>> Road World Championships – elite men’s and women’s time trial start times and order
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2025-09-21T08:00:51.619Z
Marlen Reusser (Movistar) is coming into this as one of the favourites but she has suffered a setback with an illness but a medal is still a hope…
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2025-09-21T07:58:44.510Z
All the riders to watch for in the race today are in the link below with our race preview…
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2025-09-21T07:54:48.563Z
The temperature is a pleasant 22°c with the peak later today expected to be 27°c with sunshine all day.
2025-09-21T07:54:06.039Z
The first rider off the ramp in the BK Arena will be Rwanda’s own Xaverine Nirere at 10:10 local time.
2025-09-21T07:49:40.276Z
Winners since 2015
2025-09-21T07:46:31.016Z
Rwanda are all set to host the UCI World Championships. A first for Africa. A massive moment in this sport.
2025-09-21T07:42:53.603Z
There are three climbs along the route including the cobbled Côte de Kimihurura (1.3km at 6.3%) which comes right at the end of the race route.
The other two climbs come earlier and have the two time checks on them. It is the Côte de Nyanza taken from two sides, first being 2.5km at 5.8% and the second being 4.1km at 3.1%.
2025-09-21T07:37:19.617Z
The women’s ITT route starts by Kigali’s BK Arena before taking on the 31.2km undulating route back into the capital to finish by the Convention Centre.
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2025-09-21T07:35:31.403Z
The lineup of 44 riders is stacked with talent including former winners Chloe Dygert (USA) and Anna van der Breggen (Netherlands) but there are plenty riders who will be hoping they can pull on the rainbow jersey later today.
2025-09-18T15:01:07.851Z
Hello and welcome to Cyclingnews’ live report of the women’s World Championship individual time trial in Kigali, Rwanda.