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UCI World Road Championships are underway and anticipation is building for the weekend's elite road races — who will win rainbows?
UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships heads to Kigali, Rwanda, for Africa’s first road worlds. The racing takes place across eight day from September 21-28, 2025, with nearly 1,000 athletes from more than 100 nations competing for the prestigious rainbow jersey.
Road race schedule
Day 1 – Sunday, September 21 10:10 – Women Elite Individual Time Trial 13:45 – Men Elite Individual Time Trial Day 2 – Monday, September 22 10:30 – Women Under-23 Individual Time Trial 13:35 – Men Under-23 Individual Time Trial Day 3 – Tuesday, September 23 10:45 – Women Junior Individual Time Trial 14:00 – Men Junior Individual Time Trial Day 4 – Wednesday, September 24 12:30 – Mixed Relay Team Time Trial Day 5 – Thursday, September 25 13:05 – Women Under-23 Road Race Day 6 – Friday, September 26 08:00 – Men Junior Road Race 12:00 – Men Under-23 Road Race Day 7 – Saturday, September 27 08:20 – Women Junior Road Race 12:05 – Women Elite Road Race Day 8 – Sunday, September 28 09:45 – Men Elite Road Race100% x PELOTON Chapter 1: The Triple Champ
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Dennis vs Dumoulin? Your guide to the men’s time trial at the 2018 Worlds
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Women’s TT worlds: Dutch sweep, Annemiek repeats
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Worlds: Belgian Remco Evenepoel triumphs in men’s junior TT
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Teams hope to revive TTT championship by next season
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Worlds: Bjerg defends U23 TT title; Ammerlaan tops junior women TT
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Aru pulls out of world championships due to poor form
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Women’s world championship TTT: Canyon-SRAM overcome pre-race favorites
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Porte out of road world championships
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Yates flies flag for Britain at road world championships
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Froome, top stars take aim at controversial union election
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Back-room drama set to spice up road worlds
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Who will lead Colombia at worlds?
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Winder on track for worlds with Ardèche stage win
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Yates twins to spearhead British road worlds team
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Dutch rider Mollema aims for worlds breakout
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Guarnier, King lead Team USA for Innsbruck worlds
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King’s Vuelta results earn him spot on U.S. worlds team
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Sagan wants another win in rainbow jersey
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Thibaut Pinot targets rainbow jersey on hilly Innsbruck course
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Richie Porte and Amanda Spratt to lead Australia at Road World Championships
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After record sixth green, Sagan will ‘respect’ world title
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A missing mountain at the women’s Road Worlds
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Mud! Friday Recon at the 2018 ‘Cross World Championships
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The SHEcret Pro: Off-season guilt, saying goodbye and what’s happening to our bodies?
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Katrin Garfoot not choosing between a baby or Olympics: “I want both”
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On par: six times when the women equalled the men
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Photo Essay: Team USA takes on worlds in Norway
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Photo Essay: Sagan sprints to rainbow hat-trick
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VN podcast, ep. 52: Worlds, banned beards, and Froome vs. Dumoulin
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By the numbers: What it took to be competitive in the men’s Worlds road race
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Photo gallery: The women’s rainbow battle in Bergen
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Worlds: What you missed in the final 4km
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Worlds roundtable: How did Sagan do it?
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How the Race Was Won: 2017 Elite Men’s World Championships in Bergen, Norway
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Photo gallery: The beauty and the pain of the World Championships men’s races
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Three-Peter! Sagan Does it Again!
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Rainbow record: Sagan wins historic third elite world road race championship
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How the Race Was Won: 2017 Elite Women’s World Championships in Bergen, Norway
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Dutch Domination Continues: Blaak Wins Women’s WC RR
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Dutch deliver as Chantal Blaak wins World Championships road race
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World Championships Countdown: Elite Men’s Road Race Favorites, Part 1
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‘Screw the naysayers’: Chloe Hosking ready to make an impact at Worlds
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Preview: Can anyone beat the powerful Dutch women in worlds road race?
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Preview: 2017 elite men’s world championship road race
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Commentary: Bike swap ‘controversy’ at world TT championship was overblown
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Photo gallery: The women’s races against the clock at Worlds
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Bergen worlds power rankings: Elite women’s road race
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Bora refutes reports, says Sagan is healthy for Bergen worlds
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Preview: The men’s Worlds time trial is a case of Dumoulin vs Froome
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Fastest woman in the world: Annemiek van Vleuten wins world individual time trial title
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Worlds: Van Vleuten wins her first rainbow jersey
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Pidcock and Pirrone win junior TT worlds titles
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Froome looks to cap glorious year with world title
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Bjerg wins U23 TT worlds; McNulty rides to silver
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Sunweb’s double-gold success story
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Then there were seven: Australia adds Hosking and Neylan to Road Worlds team
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Cycling Australia selectors told to reconsider women’s Road Worlds team
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Froome aims for unique triple after Tour, Vuelta wins
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Froome to ride at upcoming road worlds in Norway
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The SHEcret Pro: Worlds, Aussie selection drama, transfer travails
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Chloe Hosking to appeal Road Worlds non-selection: “This is bigger than my personal ego”
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Worlds and the UCIWWT final: the season comes to a close in September
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Far from done: Ellen van Dijk eyes world title, Olympic gold, hour record
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Rainbow diaries: Champagne showers and the beginning of a new era
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Cavendish: My career is over if I don’t let this fracture heal properly
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Vuelta unlikely for Sagan, all eyes on worlds three-peat
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Seven months after Doha world championships, 130 staff said to be awaiting payment
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Rainbow diaries: Dideriksen on major milestones made sweeter by rainbows
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The Secret Pro: Motors, discs, jiffy bags, and more
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