The 2025 Road World Championships in Rwanda would be the first ever held in Africa and one of many hardest races in rainbow jersey historical past, with the elite males climbing 5,475 metres of elevation throughout their 267.5km race.
The race routes have been formally unveiled in the course of the 2024 Road World Championships in Zürich on Thursday. The races can be held within the Rwanda’s capital Kigali between September 21-28, 2025.
Rwanda is called the ‘Land of a Thousand Hills’ and Kigali sits at an altitude of 1850 metres, including an extra issue to the racing.
“The excessive altitude and the climbs will problem the riders to push their limits. A spot within the historical past books is at stake,” organisers stated.
The time trials are scheduled from Sunday to Wednesday. The elite males will cowl 680 metres of altitude throughout their 40.6km race, whereas the elite girls will climb 460 metres in simply over 31.2km.
The street races can be held between Thursday and Sunday with a under-23 girls’s street race held individually from the elite girls’s race for the primary time.
The street races can be held on a 15.1km circuit which incorporates two brief climbs and steady rolling and testing roads. The males will cowl 15 laps plus an additional mid-race 42.5km extension circuit to climb the notorious Mur du Kigal, the cobbled climb that kicks up at 11%.
The elite girls’s race will cowl 11 laps of the Kigali circuit for a distance of 164.6km and an elevation of three,350 metres however they won’t cowl the Mur du Kigali.
“Bringing the World Cycling Championships to the African continent has been my imaginative and prescient for a few years,” UCI President David Lappartient stated.
“In a yr’s time, it will turn into a actuality. I’m delighted that this historic occasion will happen in Rwanda, which is already identified for the attractive Tour of Rwanda.
“Kigali and your complete nation have a wealthy biking tradition, which is able to now be shared with the world. I am unable to wait to welcome the biking household to what can be a milestone within the improvement and globalisation of our sport.”
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