Elite Women Road RaceWorld Championships 2027

Each lap has the same 285 meters of climbing as the men's race a week earlier. The total is 70 meters more than Kigali had in 2025, in six kilometers less, and 850 meters more than Montréal in 2026. In Kigali, Magdeleine Vallières won alone and the favorites finished a minute and a half behind her.

Demi Vollering is the rider to beat. She won the title in Montréal in a sprint of two against Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney, and in 2026 she also won the Tour de France Femmes, the Giro d'Italia Women, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and La Flèche Wallonne.

Niewiadoma-Phinney beat her on Mont Ventoux. She won that stage of the Tour by 1 minute 16 seconds over Vollering and finished second overall. Elisa Longo Borghini was third in the Tour and third in Montréal. Marlen Reusser, the world time trial champion, was fourth there, eight seconds behind.

France races at home. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, world champion in 2014 and winner of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes, has named these Worlds as an objective for the last years of her career. She has not raced since she left the 2026 Tour ill on August 8. Juliette Berthet, who raced as Juliette Labous until 2026, was the best French rider in Montréal in fifth place, and Célia Gery was seventh.

Three riders born in 2002 and 2003 climbed with the best in 2026. Paula Blasi won La Vuelta Femenina and was fifth in the Tour. Antonia Niedermaier was second in the Giro, 30 seconds behind Vollering, and fourth in the Tour. Puck Pieterse was second at Liège-Bastogne-Liège and at La Flèche Wallonne and sixth in Montréal.

The women also raced at Sallanches in 1980, the day before Hinault's win. Beth Heiden of the United States took the title.