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June 29, 2025
National Championships 2025 (NC) โ Spain ๐ช๐ธ โ Road Race WE – Granada – Granada : 144,7 km
The Spanish National Road Race Championships are held annually to decide the Spanish cycling champions in the road race discipline,
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June 29, 2025
National Championships 2025 (NC) โ Spain ๐ช๐ธ โ Road Race WE – Granada – Granada : 144,7 km
The Spanish National Road Race Championships are held annually to decide the Spanish cycling champions in the road race discipline, across various categories.
Climber Sara Martรญn (Movistar) sprinted to her first-ever national title in the Spanish road championships on Sunday, beating five-time winner Mavi Garcรญa (Liv AlUla Jayco) in a two-up sprint to the line in Granada.
Defending champion Usoa Ostolaza (Laboral Kutxa Fundaciรณn) sprinted to third from a three-rider chasing group behind, after Martรญn and Garcรญa attacked in the final 10km of a hilly parcours in southern Spain.
The under-23 title went to Paula Blasi (UAE Team ADQ Development) after a long solo chase that never saw her catch the main groups, but she adds the U23 road title to the TT title she took earlier in the week.
It was a tough 121km route in the Granadan hills, with the main action in the women’s road race kicking off in the final 60km after a gradual whittling down process.
Only a dozen or so riders were still in contention with 60km to go, with small groups breaking apart.
With 48km to go, Ane Santesteban (Laboral Kutxa Fundaciรณn) attacked solo, and for a long time it looked like she might be on the way to victory, but she slid out on a corner with 15km to go, and with only a small gap, the chasing group containing Martรญn, Garcรญa, Ostolaza and Mireia Benito (AG Insurance-Soudal) came past her before she remounted her bike.
Santesteban did get back into the group, and she and Ostolaza attempted some tag-team attacks, but the move that stuck was when Martรญn and Garcรญa attacked on a small rise with 8km to go.
Santesteban tried to help her teammate in the chase, but soon dropped away. With little cooperation from Benito, the 2024 champion, Ostolaza struggled to make any inroads into the strong Martรญn and Garcรญa group, whose gap only increased towards the finish.
It was to be a sprint between non-sprinters in Granada, and Martรญn led it out early, but ultimately that was enough to take the win as Garcรญa just lacked the speed to take a sixth national title.
Ostolaza outsprinted Benito for third, whilst Santesteban came back for fifth after the crash ended her chances of winning.
Behind Blasi in sixth, the next group finished six and a half minutes down on the leader, exemplifying how much the race split up on a difficult course.
Results :
 โ Spain ๐ช๐ธ โ Road Race WE </strong> - Granada - Granada : 144,7 km
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The Spanish National Road Race Championships are held annually to decide the Spanish cycling champions in the road race discipline, across various categories.
Climber Sara Martรญn (Movistar) sprinted to her first-ever national title in the Spanish road championships on Sunday, beating five-time winner Mavi Garcรญa (Liv AlUla Jayco) in a two-up sprint to the line in Granada.
Defending champion Usoa Ostolaza (Laboral Kutxa Fundaciรณn) sprinted to third from a three-rider chasing group behind, after Martรญn and Garcรญa attacked in the final 10km of a hilly parcours in southern Spain.
The under-23 title went to Paula Blasi (UAE Team ADQ Development) after a long solo chase that never saw her catch the main groups, but she adds the U23 road title to the TT title she took earlier in the week.
It was a tough 121km route in the Granadan hills, with the main action in the women's road race kicking off in the final 60km after a gradual whittling down process.
Only a dozen or so riders were still in contention with 60km to go, with small groups breaking apart.
With 48km to go, Ane Santesteban (Laboral Kutxa Fundaciรณn) attacked solo, and for a long time it looked like she might be on the way to victory, but she slid out on a corner with 15km to go, and with only a small gap, the chasing group containing Martรญn, Garcรญa, Ostolaza and Mireia Benito (AG Insurance-Soudal) came past her before she remounted her bike.
Santesteban did get back into the group, and she and Ostolaza attempted some tag-team attacks, but the move that stuck was when Martรญn and Garcรญa attacked on a small rise with 8km to go.
Santesteban tried to help her teammate in the chase, but soon dropped away. With little cooperation from Benito, the 2024 champion, Ostolaza struggled to make any inroads into the strong Martรญn and Garcรญa group, whose gap only increased towards the finish.
It was to be a sprint between non-sprinters in Granada, and Martรญn led it out early, but ultimately that was enough to take the win as Garcรญa just lacked the speed to take a sixth national title.
Ostolaza outsprinted Benito for third, whilst Santesteban came back for fifth after the crash ended her chances of winning.
Behind Blasi in sixth, the next group finished six and a half minutes down on the leader, exemplifying how much the race split up on a difficult course.
<strong>Results : </strong>
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