<\/p>\n Kl\u00f6ser was crowned after gapping her SD Worx rival on the final corner and then putting down the power to make the most of the advantage. Beers, on the other hand, looked to be on the back foot coming through the final corners given Swenson had determinedly kept him in the front position through the approach. However, even though the South African had been forced into the front spot early he was not going to give it up when it counted most, kicking up the pace a gear as Swenson slipped out of the draft and celebrated on the line of Gravel Worlds.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n “That\u2019s a good feeling,” said Beers in an Instagram post<\/a> after clinching the $17,500 winner’s prize. “Proper race out there today! Gnarly conditions which made it even more challenging than it already was going to be. But I\u2019m super happy to put this one together – It\u2019s not often I win a sprint so that was nice.”<\/p>\n The course of Gravel Worlds, not to be confused with the more recently introduced UCI Gravel World Championships<\/a>, delivered a packed field of the global top names in gravel and had only three miles of pavement. It also threw more than 10,000 feet (3048m) of climbing into the mix and included eight miles of minimum maintenance roads (MMR) spread through the course. These MMR’s were described as dirt in the route reconnaissance video but by race day were more accurately characterised as sticky mud, given the rain that preceded the race.<\/p>\n Matt Beers (Specialized Off-Road) sprints to victory ahead of Keegan Swenson (Santa Cruz htSQD) at Lauf Gravel Worlds 2025 (Image credit: Kevin Mackinnon\/ Gravel Worlds)<\/p>\n “A brutal day out there,” said Beers in a post race interview. “Obviously the running and the mud made it really hard and really decisive but we played our cards and we attacked in the right spots.”<\/p>\n![\"Matt](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DKWAwPuR42R2RpyRrD5sKn.jpg\")
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