Who Won The Elite Women TT At The 2025 UCI Road Worlds? Full Results Here
Who Won The Elite Women TT At The 2025 UCI Road Worlds? Full Results Here
Marlen Reusser made a golden breakthrough Sunday as she claimed the elite women's time trial at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda.
Marlen Reusser made a golden breakthrough Sunday as she claimed the elite women's time trial at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda.
Although she had won a couple of team golds, the Swiss woman had endured a series of individual near misses in major championships, collecting world silvers in 2020 and 2021 and bronze in 2022, as well as silver in the 2020 Olympics.
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"I have the feeling I was like, 10 times on the podium," Reusser said. "I can almost not believe it. I know it's real, and it happened, but I tried so many times, and it didn't work out. And now, I think I made it, and it's really special, but it was such an effort."
A day after her 34th birthday, she claimed the first world championship cycling medal in Africa, completing the 31.2-kilometer course in 43 minutes, 9 seconds.
She beat Anna van der Breggen by 52 seconds, with a her Dutch compatriot Demi Vollering another 13 seconds back.
Reusser, a qualified doctor, dominated the race on a course with several steep climbs, including the cobbled Kimihurura hill, which proved torturous for the less-experienced riders.
Reusser, who is 1.80m (5-foot-11) tall, said the toughness of the course worked in her favor.
"I went really hard on the climbs," she said. "Then, the final climb, maybe even I went too hard in the beginning, so I was full of lactic acid, but I think it was the right way to pace it and I think also I have an advantage.
"I'm quite a heavy rider, so without a lot of effort, I still go down pretty fast, and then I can put all my effort in the climb. So, I did this, and it was super hard. It was so hard. But yeah, I made it."
Reusser, who joined the Movistar team last winter, crowned an impressive season with her title.
She won the Tour of Burgos and Tour of Switzerland and finished second in the Giro d'Italia, despite being ill at the end.
French time trial champion Cedrine Kerbaol struggled home, 3 minutes, 20 seconds behind Reusser.
"Time trials aren't very enjoyable to begin with, but this was pure suffering," Kerboal said. "Even on the descents. It was hard to enjoy myself with the difficulty of the course, the altitude, the humidity and the heat."
In a festive atmosphere, Rwanda's Xaverine Nirere was the first of 44 competitors to start the race from inside the BK Arena, an ultra-modern sports and concert hall with a capacity of 10,000 people.
She finished 27th, almost seven minutes behind Reusser.
The men's time trial will take place Sunday afternoon, with Belgium's Remco Evenepoel, the two-time defending champion, and Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar as the big favorites.
2025 UCI Road World Championships Women Elite Time Trial Results
- Marlen Reusser (Switzerland) – 43:09.34
- Anna van der Breggen (Netherlands) – 44:01.23
- Demi Vollering (Netherlands) – 44:14.07
- Brodie Chapman (Australia) – 44:30.21
- Katrine Aalerud (Norway) – 44:33.68
- Antonia Niedermaier (Germany) – 44:38.41
- Juliette Labous (France) – 44:42.33
- Anna Henderson (Great Britain) – 44:47.06
- Chloe Dygert (United States) – 45:34.77
- Mireia Benito Pellicer (Spain) – 45:41.39
- Monica Trinca Colonel (Italy) – 46:11.92
- Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset (Norway) – 46:24.60
- Cedrine Kerbaol (France) – 46:30.31
- Katarzyna Anna Niewiadoma (Poland) – 46:32.33
- Yuliia Biriukova (Ukraine) – 46:32.34
- Urška Žigart (Slovenia) – 46:39.95
- Anna Kiesenhofer (Austria) – 46:58.99
- Zhang Hao (China) – 47:23.67
- Ruth Edwards (United States) – 47:31.17
- Olivia Baril (Canada) – 47:43.43
- Marthe Goossens (Belgium) – 47:53.00
- Leung Wing Yee (Hong Kong) – 48:15.58
- Teniel Campbell (Trinidad and Tobago) – 48:25.09
- Diana Carolina Penuela Martinez (Colombia) – 48:30.45
- Nora Jenčušová (Slovakia) – 48:32.30
- Soraya Paladin (Italy) – 48:36.76
- Xaveline Nirere (Rwanda) – 50:07.67
- Natalia Frolova (Athletes in Neutral) – 51:08.95
- Lucie de Marignylagesse (Mauritius) – 51:14.45
- Faina Potapova (Kazakhstan) – 51:28.19
- Yulduz Hashimi (Afghanistan) – 51:51.78
- Brhan Abrha (Ethiopia) – 51:55.79
- Serkalem Watango (Ethiopia) – 52:03.57
- Aurelie Halbwachs (Mauritius) – 52:28.10
- Diane Ingabire (Rwanda) – 52:57.79
- Akpeiil Ossim (Kazakhstan) – 53:00.22
- Kendra Tabu (Kenya) – 54:13.05
- Monica Kiplagat (Kenya) – 57:55.65
- Hermionne Ahouissou (Benin) – 58:21.87
- Jamila Abdullah (Tanzania) – 58:23.49
- Lobopo Kono (Botswana) – 1:00:28.51
- Trinitah Namukasa (Uganda) – 1:02:26.23
- Lolwa Al Marri (Qatar) – 1:08:10.98
- Kholoud Al-Kuwari (Qatar) – 1:24:16.08
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