The 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Kigali will be a unique event in the history of the sport. Cycling’s first Road World Championships ever to be held in Africa opens up opportunity to a continent where the sport is growing rapidly in parts.
Cycling is a sport with hundreds of narratives playing out at any one moment. The likes of Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Demi Vollering (FDJ-SUEZ) will grab the headlines during this World Championships, but there will be so many more stories to tell of African riders competing in the biggest race of their lives.
