{"id":111950,"date":"2025-09-03T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111950\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:56:09","slug":"tadej-pogacar-takes-aim-at-world-championship-double-with-time-trial-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111950\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Poga\u010dar takes aim at World Championship double with time trial in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) will race the individual time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Rwanda<\/a> in September, alongside defending his title as road race champion.<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar’s race plan, first reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport<\/a>, will mean a crowded September for the four-time Tour de France champion.<\/p>\n

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He is set to attend the GP Qu\u00e9bec and GP Montr\u00e9al in Canada on September 12 and 14, respectively. He will then fly to Rwanda for the time trial, which takes place on September 21 \u2013 coinciding with Poga\u010dar’s 27th birthday \u2013 before tackling the road race a week later on September 28 as he bids to claim a double World title in 2025.<\/p>\n

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Remco Evenepoel<\/a> (Soudal\u2013Quick-Step) was the last rider to secure a men’s road race-time trial double title at the World Championships in Wollongong<\/a> in 2022. He went on to also snatch an Olympic double title in 2024. The Belgian, who is currently racing the Tour of Britain, is the most obvious rival for both titles, in the absence of time trial juggernaut Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A win in either discipline would mark an exceptional end of season for the Poga\u010dar, who has dominated events across the season \u2013 including the Tour de France \u2013 and only failed to win three races that he has started.<\/p>\n

The Slovenian’s attendance in both events will be a boon for the Rwandan World Championships, the first ever to be held in Africa, in the wake of fears that major names may skip the championships.<\/p>\n

It is also understood that Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d<\/a> (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) will be part of the Slovenian contingent heading to Rwanda in support of Poga\u010dar.<\/p>\n

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Despite some speculation to the contrary, the brutally mountainous route<\/a> was not enough to lure Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> (Team Visma\u2013Lease a Bike). He will not race in Kigali but instead target the European Championships in France on October 5, where he will face Poga\u010dar.<\/p>\n

Subscribe to Cyclingnews to unlock unlimited access to our coverage of the first-ever UCI Road World Championships on African soil. Our team of journalists will bring you all the major storylines, in-depth analysis, and more directly from the action in Rwanda as the next rainbow jerseys are decided.\u00a0Find out more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Poga\u010dar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) will race the individual time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-111950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}