The March racing within the 2025 UCI Gravel World Collection ended with the cross-border 114 Gravel, with Matthew Holmes and Lucia Gonzalez Blanco claiming victory within the 123km race which began in Portugal and concluded in Spain.
The brand new inclusion within the world collection, however fifth version of the occasion, delivered a dash end on the finish of the boys’s elite race between former highway skilled Holmes and Jose Maria Sanchez Ruiz, with the British Issue Racing rider claiming the highest spot after 3 hours and 13 minutes. It was then greater than eight-and-a-half minutes again to Enrique Morcillo Vergara who beat Daan Grosemans within the dash for third.
Within the ladies’s elite race Spain’s Gonzalez Blanco (Nesta – MMR) carved out a small hole to runner-up Annabel Fisher, with the British rider simply having returned to the bike after a season of ski racing. It was then greater than two minutes again to third-placed Varvara Fasoi.
The race – which began within the medieval city of Elvas in Portugal and completed over the border in Badajoz, Spain – took in farmland and sandy trails alongside the Guadiana River which acts as a pure border between Portugal and Spain. It was the sixth qualifying spherical for the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships, which at present has its location and date up within the air after it was introduced in February that Good would now not host the occasion.
The following occasion within the UCI Gravel World Collection is Austria’s Wörthersee Gravel Race which takes place on April 6. The organisers of this occasion are amongst those that have put their hand as much as tackle the but to be formally relocated World Championships this yr.
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Elite males’s high 3PositionRider1Matthew Holmes2Jose Maria Sanchez Ruiz3Enrique Morcillo Vergara
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Elite ladies’s high 3PositionRider1Lucia Gonzalez Blanco2Annabel Fisher3Varvara Fasoi
