Tour de France Femmes 2025 and Olympic mountain bike champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot has confirmed her participation in the 2025 UCI Road World Championships due in Kigali from September 21-28. The French rider revealed that she had already made the decision to race in the World Championship in Kigali early in the season for what she described as “simple reason” that, “even though last year marked the beginning of my return to road racing, I came out of the Olympic period physically and mentally exhausted.” “I clearly didn’t want to relive that moment or ask for extra effort from an already tired body,” the 33-year-old rider said in an Instagram post on Wednesday, August 27. ALSO READ: Australia names squad for UCI World Championships in Kigali Ferrand-Prévot, who rides for Visma–Lease a Bike, has already claimed 12 UCI Elite World Championship titles and secured a gold medal in cross-country mountain biking at the Paris 2024 Olympics. She also became the first French rider to win the modern Tour de France Femmes in its fourth edition earlier this year. Now, she will make history again as the first high-profile female rider to officially confirm her participation in the Kigali championships. She will compete in the elite women’s category, tackling 11 laps of the Kigali circuit for a total distance of 164.6 km with an elevation gain of 3,350 metres.
