National Road Championships: Road Race
The 2025 edition of the Lloyds National Road Championships will conclude with two epic road races across the Welsh countryside on Sunday 29 June.
After a presentation start on the seafront, the road races will head out of town towards Y Gors as far as Trawsgoed on a picturesque yet testing 23.4km anti-clockwise loop, heading back towards Aberystwyth passing Abermad. With a maximum gradient of 9.1% at the beginning of each lap, the peloton will be thinned out as the action moves onto the finishing circuit after three laps for the women's race and five laps in the men’s race.
The finishing circuits of 12.4km - four for the women’s and five for the men’s race - use the start and finish point on the seafront as its central focus, running along almost the entirety of the promenade, past the old college and the castle grounds, before a technical section through the old harbour before looping out over Trefechan bridge.
Such is the testing nature of the course, there is a maximum gradient of 8.7% through Southgate to be tackled each lap. The narrow technical 13.8% descent from Moriah back to the main A44 will be a test of bike handling skills as the riders reach the final few kilometres of each championship. From there, the race heads back into the town before concluding on the seafront promenade after 128km for the women and 187km for the men.
National Road Championships
Stage Partners
Welsh Government
As part of a landmark agreement, the Welsh Government are supporting the Lloyds National Road Championships for the next three years.
