{"id":174302,"date":"2025-09-28T01:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174302\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T01:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:38:07","slug":"magdeleine-vallieres-becomes-1st-ever-canadian-to-win-elite-race-at-road-cycling-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174302\/","title":{"rendered":"Magdeleine Vallieres becomes 1st-ever Canadian to win elite race at road cycling worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian Magdeleine Vallieres won the women’s elite road race at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships on Saturday\u00a0in Kigali, Rwanda.<\/p>\n

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 Kigali circuit and held on for the historic victory.<\/p>\n

She became the first-ever Canadian\u00a0to win an elite road race world title.<\/p>\n

“It was my dream to win it, and it’s true now. It’s crazy,” said Vallieres, backed by a team that included Canadian Alison Jackson.<\/p>\n

\"AVallieres celebrates on the podium after her historic win. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Vallieres finished the 164.6-kilometre course 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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Vallieres, who participated in a pre-race altitude camp with her teammates, joined a late-race breakaway and pushed the pace in the group.<\/p>\n

At the bottom of the final climb, the Canadian made her move.<\/p>\n

“I knew I probably wouldn’t win in a sprint against Niamh, because she’s so strong,” Vallieres said. “We were both really committed to the break, working really hard.<\/p>\n

“I saw that she was fading a little bit, so I told myself I just have to go all in now and try and it worked out in the end. I don’t believe it yet, for sure not. It is great to do it here and with the worlds next year in Montreal, it’s perfect. I’ve been dreaming about this for a while now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian Magdeleine Vallieres won the women’s elite road race at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships on Saturday\u00a0in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-174302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}