2025 World Championships RR Live Coverage
Welcome to our live coverage of 2025 World Championships RR! Our live profile and commentary are below, followed by a preview of the technical aspects of the route.
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The road race at the World Championships in Rwanda will start and finish in Kigali, covering 267.5 kilometres with a total elevation gain of 5,500 metres. The finish line sits just beyond the top of a 1.3-kilometre cobbled climb averaging 6.3 percent, and the entire race unfolds at roughly 1,500 metres above sea level.
It promises to be a brutal test of endurance. A relentless series of short, steep hills will sap the riders’ legs long before the finish. The course includes five key climbs. Two of them—the Côte de Kigali Golf (800 metres at 8.1 percent) and the Côte de Kimihurura (1.3 kilometres at 6.3 percent, cobbled)—are repeated fifteen times each. The Côte de Péage (1.8 kilometres at 5.9 percent), Mount Kigali (5.9 kilometres at 6.9 percent), and the cobbled Wall of Kigali (400 metres at 11 percent) appear only once.
The race opens with nine laps of a 14.9-kilometre local circuit featuring the Côte de Kigali Golf and Côte de Kimihurura. From there, the riders head west onto a larger loop that includes the Côte de Péage, the long ascent of Mount Kigali—where the route reaches its high point of 1,771 metres—and the punishing Wall of Kigali. After completing this longer section, the peloton returns to Kigali for six more laps of the 14.9-kilometre circuit. In the finale, both key climbs fall in the second half of the lap. From the penultimate passage of the finish line, the riders descend gently for 6.3 kilometres to the base of the Côte de Kigali Golf, leaving 8.6 kilometres to race.
The CĂ´te de Kigali Golf rises 800 metres at 8.1 percent, followed by a 2-kilometre descent that leads directly to the cobbled CĂ´te de Kimihurura. After the 1.3-kilometre climb at 6.3 percent, the road levels briefly before the final 900 metres kick up at more than 4 percent to the line.
The men’s road race begins at 9:20 a.m. local time and is expected to finish around 4:35 p.m.
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