Cycling-Canada's Vallieres claims shock women's road race world title


  • Cycling
  • Saturday, 27 Sep 2025

Cycling - Road World Championships 2025 - Kigali, Rwanda - September 27, 2025 Canada's Magdeleine Vallieres celebrates winning the women's elite road race REUTERS/Jean Bizimana

KIGALI (Reuters) -Canada's Magdeleine Vallieres took a surprise gold in the women's road race at the UCI road world championships after a decisive attack on the final climb on Saturday.

The 24-year-old Vallieres was in a breakaway group with New Zealand's Niamh Fisher-Black and Spanish veteran Mavi Garcia at the climax of the 164km slog on a hilly Kigali circuit when she burst clear on the cobbles.

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