Canada's Magdeleine Vallieres celebrates as she crosses the finish line to win the women's elite road race.

Canadian Magdeleine Vallieres has won the women’s elite road race at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships

The 24-year-old from Sherbrooke, Que, riding for the U.S.-based EF Education-Oatly team, attacked out of the breakaway on the final climb of the circuit and held on for the victory.

Vallieres shows off her gold medal for the women's Elite road race.

Vallieres finished the 164.6-kilometre course Saturday in four hours 34 minutes 48 seconds. New Zealand’s Niamh Fisher-Black was second, 23 seconds back, and Spain’s Mavi Garcia third, another four seconds in arrears.

“It was my dream to win it, and it’s true now. It’s crazy,” said Valieres, backed by a team that included Canadi

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