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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.