{"id":167810,"date":"2025-09-29T09:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167810\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:43:10","slug":"no-regrets-because-i-did-my-best-mavi-garcia-on-road-race-bronze-medal-at-rwanda-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167810\/","title":{"rendered":"No regrets \u2018because I did my best\u2019 – Mavi Garc\u00eda on road race bronze medal at Rwanda 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Known for instigating breakaways and shining in challenging one-day races, Mavi Garc\u00eda<\/a> came to the elite women\u2019s road race at the UCI Road World Championships<\/a> as an outsider but rode her way onto the podium with bronze. Though she didn\u2019t take the victory, the Spanish rider was more than satisfied with her result.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe it,\u201d Garc\u00eda said in a flash interview minutes after crossing the finish line. \u201cThis time, my shape was really good, but you never know, because this circuit was really crazy, the cobbles were super hard. I think I take the good moments and it is the key of the race today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The 41-year-old rider was still \u201cin shock\u201d when she spoke to the assembled media at the Kigali Convention Centre following the podium ceremony. \u201cBecause I didn’t expect this moment like this. I don’t know, I prefer a really good world championship at altitude. And everything I can do I did, but I don’t expect to take the medal, it\u2019s a dream, and today it comes through.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI started late in cycling, and this [11th season] is not so long for me, but this, I think, is the cherry in my career, because this is really important for me.”<\/p>\n

With 22km remaining, Garc\u00eda attacked from a 10-rider break on the C\u00f4te de Kigali, quickly joined by Canada\u2019s Magdeleine Vallieres and New Zealand\u2019s Niamh Fisher-Black, while the chase groups behind failed to organize to try and reel them back in.<\/p>\n

The trio continued to work together until they hit the bottom slopes of the final climb, the steep cobbled C\u00f4te de Kimihurara, where Vallieres launched her winning move<\/a>. Fisher-Black followed for second and Garc\u00eda crossed the line 27 seconds later to secure third.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think today, I took the right moment in the race to go, and I knew [that] I’m not the strongest in the race, and I need to do something different in the race. And today, I think I took the right moment to go for the win.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The 2025 season hadn\u2019t been kind to Garc\u00eda, despite the hard training, but she turned it around with a victory on Tour de France Femmes stage 2 in July, and now a bronze medal in Kigali.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year I started really good, in really good shape, but in the races, I don’t know, I don’t show good moments or crashes or problems or always something. But then in the final decision, it was a really, really good race for me, and now it’s the best race I can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if she had any regrets, Garc\u00eda quickly replied with \u201cNo, nothing because I did my best.\u201d<\/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. Find out more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Known for instigating breakaways and shining in challenging one-day races, Mavi Garc\u00eda came to the elite women\u2019s road…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-167810","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\/167810","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=167810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}