The women's junior road race of the 2025 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 27 September 2025 in Kigali, Rwanda. It was the 38th edition of the championship. The race was won by Paula Ostiz of Spain.
The course consisted of five laps of a circuit in Kigali, for a total distance of with of elevation gain. Of the 72 riders entered, representing 34 nations, 57 finished the race.
Race summary The event was described as a "race of attrition" by Cyclingnews.com, as the peloton shrank to just 15 riders with to go, but without significant attacks from the favorites. The peloton came to the bottom of the final climb with Great Britain pacing, eventually thinning to a group of five riders. After an attack by Canada's Sidney Swierenga with 500 meters left, Spain's Paula Ostiz started her sprint and won ahead of Italy's Chantal Pegolo by a comfortable margin.
Final classification Rank Position in the road race Time Time taken to complete the road race s.t. Denotes a rider given the same time as the rider above DNF Denotes a rider who did not finish DNS Denotes a rider who did not start
Rank Rider Country Time Gap Paula Ostiz Taco 2:09:19 +0 Chantal Pegolo s.t. s.t. Anja Grossmann s.t. s.t. 4 Sidney Swierenga s.t. s.t. 5 Giada Silo 2:09:22 +3 6 Thais Poirier s.t. s.t. 7 Tsige Kiros s.t. s.t. 8 Neve Parslow s.t. s.t. 9 Maria Okrucinska s.t. s.t. 10 Alyssa Sarkisov s.t. s.t. 11 Laura Five 2:09:25 +6 12 Alejandra Neira Dominguez s.t. s.t. 13 Tully Schweitzer s.t. s.t. 14 Rafaelle Carrier 2:09:36 +17 15 Liliana Edwards 2:09:40 +21 16 Oda Aune Gissinger 2:09:49 +30 17 Lidia Cusack s.t. s.t. 18 Polina Danshina Individual Neutral Athletes s.t. s.t. 19 Elia Marthe s.t. s.t. 20 Megan Arens 2:09:57 +38 21 Eirini Papadimitriou Stampori 2:10:00 +41 22 Elena de Laurentiis 2:10:04 +45 23 Abigail Miller 2:10:07 +48 24 Marlen Rojas Lescot 2:10:08 +49 25 Karolina Špicarova 2:10:34 +1:15 26 Hannah Gianatti 2:11:01 +1:42 27 Arabella Blackburn 2:11:16 +1:57 28 Gabriella McHugh s.t. s.t. 29 Roos Muller s.t. s.t. 30 Alexandra Safiri 2:11:26 +2:07 31 Marte Dolven 2:11:33 +2:14 32 Mabli Phillips s.t. s.t. 33 Milana Ushakova s.t. s.t. 34 Estefania Castillo Lopez 2:12:52 +3:33 35 Leyre Almena Requena 2:13:07 +3:48 36 Irati Aranguren Carbayeda s.t. s.t. 37 Lilia Ismagilova Individual Neutral Athletes 2:17:01 +7:42 38 Elodie Malois 2:17:26 +8:07 39 Mirthe Mons 2:17:28 +8:09 40 Alexis Jaramillo 2:17:31 +8:12 41 Luciana Osorio Betancur 2:17:35 +8:16 42 Anežka Kysilkova 2:17:51 +8:32 43 Angelina Burenkova 2:18:11 +8:52 44 Maite Vitoria Coelho da Silva 2:18:14 +8:55 45 Sanne Laurijssen 2:19:25 +10:06 46 Antonie Cermanova 2:21:33 +12:14 47 Auke de Buysser 2:21:35 +12:16 48 Masengesho Yvonne 2:21:39 +12:20 49 Uwiringiyimana Liliane s.t. s.t. 50 Abigael Fortier 2:22:41 +13:22 51 Rahel Gimbato 2:25:55 +16:36 52 Nahomi Jativa Martinez s.t. s.t. 53 Mariya Yelkina 2:28:24 +19:05 54 Raphaelle Houde 2:28:58 +19:39 55 Syahla Syafiah 2:29:50 +20:31 56 Harshita Jakhar 2:31:38 +22:19 57 Delsia Janse van Vuuren 2:33:39 +24:20
Rank Rider Country Time Erin Boothman DNF Eva Terpin DNF Lidia Castro de la Serna DNF Osaretin Grace Godwin DNF Errin Mackridge DNF Melvina Tankpinou Houeffa DNF Rosemarie Thiel DNF Elvine Marie Rose Yameogo DNF Anna Hanakova DNF Divine Ogbe DNF Mercy Eragae DNF Pontso Makatile DNF Maeva Plagniol DNF Megan Botha DNF Lise Revol DNS
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