A year of dirt and gravel – 2025 winners of the most epic off-road races select their favourite photos

Gravel and off-road racing showed no signs of easing from a meteoric rise in popularity in 2025. High-profile races across mud, rocks, sand and soil in Europe and North America featured deep fields among the elite riders, while amateurs continued to grind through scenic landscapes and epic personal journeys of more than 100 events around the globe, a number that is a modest estimate.

Events at Unbound Gravel and The Traka continued to reign supreme as the ‘monuments’ of off-road racing, with Karolina Migoń etching a new level of success with wins at both The Traka 360 and Life Time Unbound Gravel 200. At The Traka 200, both Mads Würtz Schmidt and Sofia Gomez Villafañe won on inaugural appearances at the Girona race. New Zealander Cameron Jones made Kansas feel like home with a signature solo victory in the elite men’s race at Unbound 200.