<\/p>\n 10 May: Italian Vittoria Bussi breaks her own UCI Hour record<\/a> with a distance of 50.455km, nudging her previous best a further 188m. Six days later, she sets the world record for the 4km individual pursuit: 4:23.624. The IP time fell eight times this year after the distance was increased from 3km at the start of the season.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n 16 May: Finance professional Dr Sarah Ruggins<\/a> rides from John o\u2019 Groats to Land\u2019s End and back (2,700km) in five days, 11 hours and 14 minutes \u2013 a new LEJOGLE, or in Ruggins\u2019s case, JOGLEJOG, record.<\/p>\n \n Sarah Ruggins is the JOGLEJOG record holder. (Image credit: James Busby\/@jamesbusbyimages)<\/p>\n 31 May: A blisteringly-fast edition of Unbound<\/a>, the gravel racing<\/a> calendar\u2019s marquee event, sees the men\u2019s and women\u2019s course times fall in both the 200-mile and 350-mile distances.<\/p>\n 25 June: Robin Gemperle becomes the first rider to finish in under 12 days at the Tour Divide<\/a>. His winning time: 11 days, 19 hours and 14 minutes.<\/p>\n 29 June: Time triallist John Archibald<\/a> sets a new competition best at the 50-mile British National Championships<\/a> with a time of one hour, 30 minutes and eight seconds.<\/p>\n 6 July: Ex-pro Molly Weaver<\/a> breaks the record for riding around Britain\u2019s coastline (7,700km), doing so in 21 days, 10 hours and 48 minutes. She is the first woman to hold the record, beating the previous benchmark, set in 1984, by 17 hours.<\/p>\n 27 July: Fastest Tour de France<\/a> in history: Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> wins the 3,302km race in a time of 76 hours and 32 seconds, an average speed of 43.4kph. During the race, the Slovenian also rides the fastest known ascent of Mont Ventoux<\/a>: 53 minutes and 47 seconds for the almost 21km climb from B\u00e9doin.<\/p>\n A year of firsts\n<\/p>\n \n (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n 2025 witnessed the first\u2026 <\/p>\n African to win a stage of the Tour de France Femmes, and to wear the race\u2019s yellow jersey: Kim Le Court-Pienaar 14 August: Para-cyclist Will Bjergfelt<\/a> smashes the 50km barrier in the UCI Hour Record (C5 para-cycling classification). He finishes with a distance of 51.471km, almost 4km more than the previous benchmark.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n 14 August: Matthew Richardson<\/a> becomes the first rider ever to clock below nine seconds in the 200m flying lap on the track. The sprinter breaks his own record again 24 hours later, settling it at 8.857 seconds.<\/p>\n 7 September: Alf Engers\u2019s 25-mile road bike time trial record from 1978 (49 minutes and 24 seconds) is beaten twice on the same day<\/a>; first in Hampshire by Paul Burton, who went three seconds faster, and then by Casper von Folsach in South Wales. The Dane\u2019s record is now 47 minutes and 39 seconds.<\/p>\n 21 September: UAE Team Emirates-XRG collect their 86th victory of the calendar year, thanks to Brandon McNulty at the \u0160koda Tour of Luxembourg<\/a>, and surpass Team Columbia-HTC\u2019s record of 85 from 2009. Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a>\u2019s team would go on to raise the bar to 97.<\/p>\n \n Brandon McNulty’s Tour of Luxembourg win was history-making. (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n 28 September: In beating Lachlan Morton<\/a> at the Yorkshire Dales 3 Peaks Cyclocross, Ribble<\/a> Outliers rider Jenson Young<\/a> sets a new course record: two hours, 49 minutes and 17 seconds.<\/p>\n 19 October: The men\u2019s WorldTour season concludes at the Tour of Guangxi with a record-breaking average speed of 42.913kph across the 36 events.<\/p>\n![\"Sarah](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TRmsqVqFH36byhXHobhfNk.jpg\")
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Canadian elite road race world champion: Magdeleine Vallieres
British men\u2019s junior road world champion: Harry Hudson
Rider to win Il Lombardia five times in a row: Tadej Poga\u010dar
Rider to podium in all five Monuments in the same season: Tadej Poga\u010dar (3rd, Milan-San Remo; 1st, Tour of Flanders; 2nd, Paris-Roubaix; 1st, Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge; 1st, Il Lombardia)<\/p>\n![\"Brandon](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hf4iKEoycpRDRUQnyEmGU8.jpg\")
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