Overview

• Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar attacked on Mount Kigali around 104km out, dropped his last companion with 67km to go and won by 1min 28sec, completing a Tour–Worlds double for the second straight year.
• Remco Evenepoel added road-race silver to his dominant time-trial gold after a mid-race mechanical interrupted his chase.
• Ireland’s Ben Healy secured bronze at 2min 16sec, the nation’s first men’s road race medal since Sean Kelly in 1989.
• The 267.5km course featured repeated steep cobbled climbs at roughly 1,500m altitude, with vast crowds for the first Road Worlds on African soil.
• Canada’s Magdeleine Vallieres attacked on the final cobbled rise to win the women’s race by 23 seconds over Niamh Fisher-Black, with Mavi Garcia third.