Amazing Romain Bardet (Team Picnic PostNL) ! Only three months after retiring at the end of the Giro d'Italiaand for his second race in the special discipline of the Gravel, after a superb top 10 last week, the French won this Saturday Monsterrando Gravel Race 2025, an Italian Gravel renowned Gravel test, integrated since 2022 into UCI Gravel World Seriesthe highest level in this discipline. After 120 kilometers of racing in the Piedmont, he won solo in front of a former professional runner on the road, like the French, the Czech Petr Vakocand the Dutchman Mathijs Loman.
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A victory … who qualifies him at the world championships!
If this victory is already a great performance in itself, only a few days after its first race in Gravel, it also allows it to qualify for the world championships in the discipline, which will take place on October 11 and 12 in Zuid-Limburg in the Netherlands. Before that, Romain Bardet will be able to test themselves again, especially during a stage of UCI Gravel World Series In France, at Les Angles in the Eastern Pyrenees.
