Who Won The Men Elite Road Race At The 2025 UCI Road Worlds? Results Here
Who Won The Men Elite Road Race At The 2025 UCI Road Worlds? Results Here
Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar won an epic men's road race at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships on Sunday, going solo from 66km out on the 267km slog.
Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar won an epic men's road race at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships on Sunday, going solo from 66 kilometers out in the 267-kilometer slog over the hills around Kigali, Rwanda.
In successfully defending his 2024 title, the 27-year-old finished 1 minute, 28 seconds ahead of Olympic champion Belgian Remco Evenepoel, who crossed the line with his head down after a mid-race mechanical.
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"I didn't come here for the silver, I wanted the gold," Evenepoel said smiling later. "Destiny had other ideas for me."
Ireland's 2025 breakout star, Ben Healy, also wore a broad smile as he took bronze over the balmy, 1500m altitude course, leading the chase to catch Pogacar over the 33 hills and earning a place on the podium at 2 minutes, 16 seconds.
Just as impressive was Paul Seixas, the 19-year-old Frenchman tipped as a future Tour de France winner, who came in 13th on a day where officials said crowds of around 1 million turned out for the final day of the weeklong worlds, the first on African soil.
The course was made up of 15 loops around the city, with two climbs and one longer, even harder loop with an extra cobbled climb.
Pogacar broke away with Mexican Isaac del Toro and Spain's Juan Ayuso, who both were on the books of Team UAE this season, but Ayuso had a mechanical, and Del Toro ran out of steam.
Pogacar, though, was a man transformed just a week after a humiliation in the time trial, where he was overtaken by Evenepoel, who started 2 minutes, 30 seconds later than him.
"It wasn't the original plan, to attack so far out," said Pogacar, a four-time Tour de France winner. "The boys tried to stop me, but I felt so good."
This time, Evenepoel displayed frayed nerves when he suffered a mechanical, waving away a reserve bike and kicking away stones waiting for his team car.
He lost valuable time with his tantrum, but when his car arrived he set off again on another of his golden-framed bikes, denoting his Olympic champion status.
He swiftly caught Healy and the Pogacar pursuit, but never at any time was able to chip away at a constant lead of 1 minute, 20 seconds held by the Tour de France champion.
Hopes were high for Briton Tom Pidcock after his third place finish at the Vuelta a España, and the Yorkshireman was in the mix until late on. He finished 10th.
"That was the most enjoyable race I've done this year," Pidcock said.
For Pogacar, the gorilla mascot he picked up for his win may not be the last of yet another dominant season.
He won four stages on his way to the Tour de France title in July, and of the five massive one-day races known as Monuments, he won the Tour of Flanders and Liege-Bastogne-Liege, was second at Paris-Roubaix and third at Milan-San Remo. He is favorite to win the the upcoming Tour of Lombardy in two weeks.
In the women's race Saturday, rank outsider Magdeleine Vallieres of Canada pulled of a surprise win.
The winners are awarded a rainbow jersey that they wear for the year, a much coveted prize in a race where riders represent their nations, rather than a professional team.
2025 UCI Road World Championships Men Elite Road Race Results
*All Finishers
- Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia) – 6:21:20
- Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) – 6:22:48
- Ben Healy (Ireland) – 6:23:36
- Mattias Skjelmose (Denmark) – 6:24:13
- Toms Skujins (Latvia) – 6:28:01
- Giulio Ciccone (Italy) – 6:28:07
- Isaac del Toro Romero (Mexico) – 6:28:07
- Juan Ayuso Pesquera (Spain) – 6:28:07
- Afonso Eulalio (Portugal) – 6:28:26
- Thomas Pidcock (Great Britain) – 6:30:25
- Primož Roglič (Slovenia) – 6:30:25
- Mikkel Honoré (Denmark) – 6:30:27
- Paul Seixas (France) – 6:30:27
- Harold Alfonso Tejada Canacue (Colombia) – 6:30:27
- Pavel Sivakov (France) – 6:31:07
- Jai Hindley (Australia) – 6:31:21
- Andrea Bagioli (Italy) – 6:31:26
- Marc Hirschi (Switzerland) – 6:31:26
- Michael Storer (Australia) – 6:31:32
- Carlos Canal Blanco (Spain) – 6:31:32
- Bauke Mollema (Netherlands) – 6:31:32
- Gianmarco Garofoli (Italy) – 6:31:36
- Kevin Vermaerke (United States) – 6:31:36
- Artem Nych (AIN) – 6:31:36
- Andreas Leknessund (Norway) – 6:31:38
- Cian Uijtdebroeks (Belgium) – 6:31:38
- Embret Svestad-Bardseng (Norway) – 6:32:08
- Valentin Paret Peintre (France) – 6:32:19
- Jan Christen (Switzerland) – 6:33:15
- Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier (Eritrea) – 6:33:24
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