UCI Road World Championships 2025: How to watch, full schedule as Tadej Pogacar, Remco Evenepoel and Demi Vollering hunt rainbow jersey in Rwanda
Updated 21/09/2025 at 18:46 GMT+1
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The 2025 UCI Road World Championships are being held in Rwanda, with all the action live on TNT Sports and discovery+. Tour de France champions Tadej Pogacar and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot headline the action, while Remco Evenepoel, Tom Pidcock, Demi Vollering and Anna Henderson are among the stars competing. The Road World Championships will be held over eight days in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.
'Press record!' - Evenepoel does the unthinkable and catches Pogacar in time trial
Video credit: TNT Sports
History is being made at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships as the competition takes place in Africa for the first time.
First held in 1921, the Road World Championships were in Switzerland last year and Great Britain in 2023.
Rwanda is the first African nation to host the Road World Championships.
Eritrean sprinter Biniam Girmay, winner of the green jersey at last year’s Tour de France, is among the leading riders, along with three-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar.
All the action from the event is live on TNT Sports and discovery+. Here are the details of how to watch, when each race takes place, and who is riding…
When are the 2025 UCI Road World Championships?
The UCI Road World Championships take place from September 21-28.
There will be 13 separate events held over eight days of competition, all taking place in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.
The winners of each event are crowned world champions and can wear the rainbow jersey when they compete in the same discipline the following season.
2025 UCI Road World Championships schedule
*All UK start times
- Sep 22 – Women’s U23 Individual Time Trial (9:35am)
- Sep 22 – Men’s U23 Individual Time Trial (12:35pm)
- Sep 23 – Women’s Junior Individual Time Trial (9:45am)
- Sep 23 – Men’s Junior Individual Time Trial (1pm)
- Sep 24 – Team Time Trial Mixed Relay (11:30am)
- Sep 25 – Women’s U23 Road Race (12:05pm)
- Sep 26 – Men’s Junior Road Race (7am)
- Sept 26 – Men’s U23 Road Race (11am)
- Sep 27 – Women’s Junior Road Race (7:20am)
- Sep 27 – Women’s Elite Road Race (11:05am)
- Sep 28 – Men’s Elite Road Race (8:45am)
How to watch the 2025 UCI Road World Championships
All the races from the 2025 UCI Road World Championships will be live on TNT Sports and discovery+.
TNT Sports is available across all major TV platforms, offering a line-up of up to four TV channels (TNT Sports 1, TNT Sports 2, TNT Sports 3, TNT Sports 4), and up to six digital or red-button channels (TNT Sports 5 to 10), and TNT Sports Ultimate plus TNT Sports Box Office HD.
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Who is riding at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships?
After a season of dominance, Tadej Pogacar is the strong favourite to defend his title in the men’s road race.
A hilly route that features 5,475m of climbing over 267.5km should suit the Slovenian, who has been back in action in Montreal following his third Tour de France win earlier in the summer.
"I want to peak for the World Championships," said Pogacar last week. "That's the main goal for this final stretch of the season. I also want to use these races as good training and hope I'll be ready."
Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock will be among Pogacar’s rivals, fresh off his third-place finish at La Vuelta, along with Remco Evenepoel, who will lead Belgium in the absence of Wout van Aert.
Julian Alaphilippe will lead the French team after beating Pogacar to a one-day race victory in Quebec.
Pogacar was beaten in an "astounding" time trial at the World Championships by Evenepoel, who caught the Tour de France winner on his way to gold.
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'I gave my everything' - Pogacar explains shock Evenepoel overtake in time trial
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Lotte Kopecky has opted not to defend her title in the women’s road race but Demi Vollering leads a strong-looking Dutch team that also includes Anna van der Breggen and Marianne Vos.
Pauline Ferrand-Prevot has enjoyed a strong season, capped by her Tour de France Femmes win, and will have her sights on more success.
Great Britain have not entered a rider in the women’s road race.
Marlen Reusser finally clinched the individual time trial crown after three previous podiums.
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