Men Elite highlights | 2025 Bolero UCI Gravel World Championships

Watch the Men Elite highlights of the 2025 Bolero UCI Gravel World Championships in Zuid-Linburg, Netherlands.

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The course is basically a triangular lap. We drop down from the northerly point at beak. We drop down across to Vaval western side. We then go across to Reus on the right hand side of the base of the track before coming back up to beat the men doing three and a half laps of that race circuit. Florian Visha Bisos along with Flores Mantric and Neils Polllet broke clear of the bunch. move on the front just coming through this beat and the bel just seeing this group come together. Pressure goes on the front to try and break this clear as we start to see Blet lose touch with the lead. He’s been doing so much work on the front now. Can he get himself back on? He chased onto that initial leading group. He wasn’t in that leader group initially. The leading group of Vish Beast Boss and Van Tri had gone clear. And you can see here issues with that chain on the bike as the riders disappear off into the distance there. So Flores Vantric Floren Vish and Fritz Beast Boss the leaders Neils Plet at the moment just a distance behind having to work to get back on after those issues with the gears. It’s not a decisive gap between the front and the back of this group at the moment. It’s just separated ones and the twos and Modric now pushes on. Castelli who is now sitting second wheel to Modric in that chasing group going along with Tim Wellins here as we see Niels now see the express train being driven the locomotive that is moderation on the front here now on the move of the road for company. the group behind the pressure as he’s come out. That group just reforming once again. Oh, just taking a look at the moment. Morish at the moment continue to push with Stey and Plet again being distance once the pace is lifted in the latter stages of this race. All that work has gone in early on at the moment the chase behind. Well, that is still coming from Stey and Modic. And at the moment I think we are going to see Plet being swept up by the second of those chasing groups. The gap despite the best arrow efforts of Modric still goes back out again to 38 seconds. Now these three showing no signs of capitulating at this stage as they come through here. Just the gap starting to open to Vantric. So Vish now just losing contact on the way through here leaving two riders at the front here. The lead is now down to two twice silver medalist flowing from of Bris of the Netherlands. You can just see at the moment though this is Modric along with Felix Steelli going to be hooed up by them on the way through. We’ll see what he’s got in the tank. Will he try and latch on to this duo as they come down past in towards beak? Our two leaders though still clear by 50 seconds from anybody else out on the road. We’re heading for 30 km left to go in today’s world championships here as they make their way down through. You can just see the concentration on the pace now. Just a little bit of a slight out for Flores of Van Thricia for just a loss of wheels on the gravel there. Just drifted down. There’s a little bit of a bank. Then you hit those marbles. Down goes Vanrici. That has done the damage now. And Vash Street firmly in fifth place and left chasing Rich on the front here. Steady at the rear of the two riders currently in third and fourth position. potentially a medal at stake, a bronze medal or be it at stake at the moment as we see another big kick coming. What you can see he went from behind. You could just see a long turn there by Bishabush and instead of coming to the front and doing a turn. Well, Visha puts in the attack, he does in the dirt. He goes over the top as the elbow flicked, but that is by racing. And now Vish really on the attack behind him. Vos losing a little bit more ground at the moment. He chases Modric now well over 1 minute 16 back. That has gone back out again. As we now see Marriage start to move and clear. A fight is coming from Fish Steady. But at the moment, former champion Modric on the move on the ascent. 13 seconds separate Visha from Bosch. It’s 1 minute 18 from the front of the race to Modish. Is that a smile on the face of Floren Bish with 11K to go? is now starting to believe that this is his because this is the run. He’s punching the end like he knows Florian Vich twice silver medalist is going to come across the line to take victory. The UCI gravel world champion for 2025. It is going to be Florian Bish. The bike is lifted loft as he crosses the line. It’s a home rider taking the silver medal here today at the men’s elite race. What a ride by. It’s going to be just over a minute behind our race winner to the crowd there today as Marage cruises his way in over the line. Our world champion crowd. He takes the men’s elite title for Belgium ahead of free speech in second place taking the silver medal for the Netherlands and Matric taking third place.