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Magdeleine Vallieres stunned everyone at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda on Saturday as the 24-year-old from Sherbrooke, Quebec won gold in the women\u2019s road race. <\/p>\n
She is the first Canadian\u2014man or woman\u2014to become an elite road race world champion and will have the honour of wearing the rainbow jersey for the next year\u2014including at the 2026 UCI Road World Championships which will take place in Montreal. <\/p>\n
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Canada\u2019s Magdeleine Vallieres Mill celebrates on the podium winning the women\u2019s Elite road race, at the road cycling World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jerome Delay)<\/p>\n
\u201cThe girls believed in me, so I believed in myself and I really committed to going for it,\u201d Vallieres said in reference to her Canadian teammates Alison Jackson<\/a>, Olivia Baril<\/a>, Laury Milette, and \u00c9milie Fortin. \u201cI told myself that I didn\u2019t want any regrets and I don\u2019t!\u201d<\/p>\n Vallieres made her big attack on the final climb in the last two kilometres of the 164.6km race. That allowed her to get the win by 23 seconds ahead of Niamh Fisher-Black of New Zealand. Mavi Garcia of Spain was a further four seconds back for the bronze. <\/p>\n The 11-lap race included two climbs, the steep C\u00f4te de Kigali Golf and the cobbled C\u00f4te de Kimihurura. In the early going of the race, Vallieres smartly rode near the front, but always in the draft of other riders. There was an initial break by Austria\u2019s Carina Schrempf, who was later joined by two other riders, while a chasing group that included Vallieres gradually closed the gap. <\/p>\n On the bell lap, Vallieres found herself in a lead group with a 30-second gap on the pack. As the race neared its end, the three eventual medallists broke away. Heading into the last climb of the C\u00f4te de Kimihurara, Vallieres made her decisive move, which neither Fisher-Black nor Garcia could respond to. <\/p>\n \u201cI knew I probably wouldn\u2019t win in a sprint against Niamh because she is strong,\u201d Vallieres said of her decision to attack when she did. \u201cWe were both committed to this break, working really hard, and then I saw that she was fading a little bit so I told myself I just have to go all-in now and, yeah, it all worked out in the end.\u201d <\/p>\n Vallieres had just one prior road race victory on her resume, the Trofeo Palma Femina in 2024. She was the runner-up in the women\u2019s road race at the 2024 Canadian Championships and finished 14th at last year\u2019s world championships. <\/p>\n Only four other Canadians had ever stood on an elite road race podium at the world championships, all with bronze medals: Steve Bauer<\/a> and Michael Woods<\/a> in the men\u2019s event in 1984 and 2018, respectively, and Alison Sydor<\/a> and Linda Jackson<\/a> in the women\u2019s event in 1991 and 1996, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo\/Jerome Delay September 27, 2025 Magdeleine Vallieres stunned everyone at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,46541,89330,89331,1176,82,36378],"class_list":{"0":"post-175110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-magdeleine-vallieres","12":"tag-magdeleine-vallieres-mill","13":"tag-road-cycling","14":"tag-road-race","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uci-road-world-championships"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175110","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=175110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Wearing](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CP175074411.jpg\")
Canada\u2019s Magdeleine Vallieres Mill celebrates winning the women\u2019s Elite road race, at the road cycling World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jerome Delay)<\/p>\n