Canada’s Magdeleine Vallieres become’s women’s road race world champion in Rwanda

Magdeleine Vallieres secured a shock gold medal for Canada in the women’s road race at the 2025 World Championships, the 24-year-old attacking in the final two kilometres to win by 23 seconds.

Vallieres had only won one race before in her career – the 2024 Trofeo Palma Femina – but she was the strongest rider in Kigali, taking advantage of a strange race in which none of the pre-race favourites featured at the front of the race.