2025 UCI Road World Championships: Australia takes collective team time trial gold

The team time trial - mixed relay, held on Wednesday 24 September, wrapped up the time trial events of the 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda. Already crowned in 2024, Australia successfully defended their title thanks to Brodie Chapman, Michael Matthews, Lucas Plapp, Amanda Spratt, Jay Vine (silver medallist in the Men Elite individual time trial - ITT) and Felicity Wilson-Haffenden. France (Bruno Armirail, Cedrine Kerbaol, Juliette Labous, Paul Seixas, Pavel Sivakov, Maeva Squiban) took silver (+5.24), just as they did in 2023, and Switzerland (Jan Christen, Stefan Küng, Ja

The team time trial - mixed relay, held on Wednesday 24 September, wrapped up the time trial events of the 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda. Already crowned in 2024, Australia successfully defended their title thanks to Brodie Chapman, Michael Matthews, Lucas Plapp, Amanda Spratt, Jay Vine (silver medallist in the Men Elite individual time trial - ITT) and Felicity Wilson-Haffenden. France (Bruno Armirail, Cedrine Kerbaol, Juliette Labous, Paul Seixas, Pavel Sivakov, Maeva Squiban) took silver (+5.24), just as they did in 2023, and Switzerland (Jan Christen, Stefan Küng, Jasmin Liechti, Marlen Reusser, Noemi Rüegg) rounded out the podium (+10.00). “It’s not often we get a chance to ride with other Aussies like this,” Matthews rejoiced. “We had full focus for this after we won last year. Just being back with the team, mixing it with the girls the last few days and putting it together today was the cherry on top of the cake.” Spratt added: “It was my first time doing the nations’ team time trials and it’s just incredible to pull it off with the team. Brodie was so strong in that last part. I knew I just had to hold the wheel and it would be close. I could hear our director just screaming to sprint, sprint, sprint… It’s so special.” The event brought together 15 teams of six riders each, three men and three women. The men went first, covering a 20.9km loop (elevation: 370m) around the Kigali Convention Centre, with an ascent of the Côte de Nyanza (2.5km at 5.8%) halfway through the course and a finale featuring the cobbled climb of Côte de Kimihurura (1.3km at 6.3%). As soon as the men had completed their challenge, it was up to the teams’ three female riders to cover the same parcours. Four days of road races will start Thursday.

Source: UCI