Summary

  • Click the 'Watch live' button for BBC coverage from Kigali, Rwanda.

  • Canada's Magdeleine Vallieres Mill wins gold

  • New Zealand's Niamh Fisher-Black wins silver, Spain's Margarita Victo Garcia Canellas takes the bronze medal

Live Reporting

  1. Rwanda hosts UCI World Championships: What could it do for cycling in Africa?

    Africa hosts cycling's Road World Championships for the first time.

    As Rwanda host one of cycling's most prestigious events, we ask what the competition being held in Africa for the first time could do for cycling on the continent. BBC World Service reporter, Victoria Uwonkunda, the former team principal of the first African first team to compete in the Tour de France, Doug Ryder, and BBC cycling reporter, Matt Warwick, tell John Bennett that cycling is already huge in Africa and will only grow in popularity after the Championships.

  2. Britain's Hudson wins junior road race as UCI retires Furrer's number

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    Britain's Harry Hudson has won the junior road race at the UCI Road World Championships in Rwanda.

    Hudson, 18, beat France's Johan Blanc to the line by 16 seconds, with Jan Michal Jackowiak of Poland in third.

    In warm conditions on a hilly 119.3km sequence of laps around the capital Kigali, Hudson - who is known to be a good climber - crossed the line in two hours 55 minutes and 19 seconds, with team-mates Max Hinds and Matthew Peace in fourth and fifth respectively.

    Meanwhile, cycling's world governing body the UCI announced it will retire the number 84 from women's junior competition at the road worlds.

    It was assigned to Muriel Furrer, who died of a head injury following a crash during the women's junior road race a year ago today in Switzerland.

    Read here.