Overview

• The Slovenian split the race over Mount Kigali with roughly 104km remaining and pressed on alone from about 66km out to finish unchallenged.
• He won by 1 minute 28 seconds over Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel, with Ireland’s Ben Healy third at 2:16 for his nation’s first men’s road race medal since 1989.
• The 267.5km course featured steep cobbled ramps and more than 5,000m of climbing at around 1,500m elevation, contributing to heavy attrition with only about 30 finishers.
• Evenepoel dealt with mid‑race mechanical problems that required bike changes yet still secured silver after winning the time trial title earlier in the week.
• Canada’s Magdeleine Vallieres took a surprise victory in the women’s road race, outsprinting her breakaway rivals on the final cobbled climb to win ahead of Niamh Fisher‑Black and Mavi Garcia.