{"id":150839,"date":"2025-09-21T08:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/150839\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:44:14","slug":"uci-road-world-championships-live-race-against-the-clock-in-kigali-for-the-elite-womens-time-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/150839\/","title":{"rendered":"UCI Road World Championships LIVE – Race against the clock in Kigali for the Elite Women’s time trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Refresh <\/p>\n

2025-09-21T08:42:47.550Z<\/p>\n

Nirere is coming to the first time check. She sets a time of 19’11” after just over 10km of racing.<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T08:39:04.880Z<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T08:33:55.416Z<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T08:29:09.018Z<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T08:26:32.433Z<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T08:23:54.507Z<\/p>\n

As expected, absolutely gigantic crowds have packed the course.<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T08:22:58.050Z
\nFirst rider starts<\/p>\n

Xaverine Nirere (Rwanda) sets off on her ride. The national champion opens the 2025 UCI Road World Championships in her home country. An absolutely amazing moment for her.<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T08:20:26.286Z<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T08:17:31.899Z<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T08:15:25.569Z<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T08:06:40.443Z<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T08:02:03.260Z<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

>>> Road World Championships \u2013 elite men’s and women’s time trial start times and order<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"SAINT-PERAY,\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T08:00:51.619Z<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

>>> Marlen Reusser aims for World Championship time trial medal after illness derailed preparation<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"LEZANA\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T07:58:44.510Z<\/p>\n

All the riders to watch for in the race today are in the link below with our race preview…<\/p>\n

>>> Rwanda Road World Championships – Riders to watch in the elite women’s individual time trial<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Marlen\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T07:54:48.563Z<\/p>\n

The temperature is a pleasant 22\u00b0c with the peak later today expected to be 27\u00b0c with sunshine all day.<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T07:54:06.039Z<\/p>\n

The first rider off the ramp in the BK Arena will be Rwanda’s own Xaverine Nirere at 10:10 local time.<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T07:49:40.276Z
\nWinners since 2015<\/p>\n

2015: Linda Villumsen (New Zealand)
2016: Amber Neben (USA)
2017: Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands)
2018: Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands)
2019: Chloe Dygert (USA)
2020: Anna van der Breggen (Netherlands)
2021: Ellen van Dijk (Netherlands)
2022: Ellen van Dijk (Netherlands)
2023: Chloe Dygert (USA)
2024: Grace Brown (Australia)<\/p>\n

Who will take the rainbow jersey this year?<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T07:46:31.016Z<\/p>\n

Rwanda are all set to host the UCI World Championships. A first for Africa. A massive moment in this sport.<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T07:42:53.603Z<\/p>\n

There are three climbs along the route including the cobbled C\u00f4te de Kimihurura (1.3km at 6.3%) which comes right at the end of the race route.<\/p>\n

The other two climbs come earlier and have the two time checks on them. It is the C\u00f4te de Nyanza taken from two sides, first being 2.5km at 5.8% and the second being 4.1km at 3.1%.<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T07:37:19.617Z<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\"UCI\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: UCI)<\/p>\n

2025-09-21T07:35:31.403Z<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

2025-09-18T15:01:07.851Z<\/p>\n

Hello and welcome to Cyclingnews’ live report of the women’s World Championship individual time trial in Kigali, Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Refresh 2025-09-21T08:42:47.550Z Nirere is coming to the first time check. She sets a time of 19’11” after just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-150839","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\/150839","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=150839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}