THESE ARE THE MEDAL-WINNING MACHINES THAT CAME FROM CANYON IN 2025

The bikes behind Canyon's biggest wins in 2025

At Canyon there is a love for performance in all its different forms. From the elite athletes Canyon works with to the performance characteristics inherent in every single one of its bikes. Performance is so deeply embedded into the DNA of Canyon that every goal achievement – whether it’s a personal goal, a business goal, an athlete win or a great group-test review - is rightly celebrated.

That's why, with 2025 being another year where Canyon athletes have pushed performance further, especially with its Canyon Factory Racing division and the nine World Champions currently riding for the brand, Canyon is looking back at the the medals and the awards its bikes have won this year:

• In May 2025 Canyon launched the latest version of its Sender CFR. It was designed to be the fastest downhill bike on any course and at any race. Did it deliver? It certainly did. Two Elite World Cup wins for Marine Cabirou, four Junior World Cup wins for Aletha Ostgaard, career-best performances for Henri Kiefer and Luca Shaw, and the Team of the Season title for the most points amassed across the 10 World Cup rounds. Consistently excellent.
• Could those wins have anything to do with Canyon’s new director of suspension technology Jose Gonzalez? The modest man from mid-west USA will tell you it’s a true team effort but his insights have been crucial in the continual development of the Sender CFR – the mid-season introduction of a new rear triangle and suspension tuning coincided with an incredible run of form for the CLLCTV DH team.
• In Cross Country it was one of the best seasons ever for Canyon’s Lux World Cup CFR. The ever-popular Swedish rider Jenny Rissveds had a career renaissance, winning the World Championships and eight World Cup rounds, and we witnessed the rise of Canyon’s U23 talent Valentina Corvi who won the overall U23 World Cup.
• Away from bike races, Canyon’s mountain bikes also won several major awards. For example MTB-News.de readers voted the Lux Trail bike to be their down country bike of the year, the Neuron:ON CF 7 won awards from Bike-X and Imtest, and the Spectral:ONfly won an iF Design Award.

• Major success on the Road came early in the season as Mathieu van der Poel won the Cyclocross World Champs title for the record-equalling 7^th time. His Inflite cyclocross bike also saw success thanks to Tibor del Grosso and Zoe Bäckstedt in the Under-23 men’s and women’s races.
• Mathieu followed that with a glorious spring, winning Milan-Sanremo and the E3 Classic before winning Paris-Roubaix for the third time in a row. You want the perfect bike for the Classics? The Aeroad has already etched itself into history.
• Into July arguably even bigger victories came as Jasper Philipsen took a Tour de France stage win and the first yellow jersey, before handing it over to stage 2 winner Mathieu van der Poel who lead the race until stage 7. And with Kaden Groves’ win on stage 20 it rounded out a great tour for Canyon with Alpecin-Deceuninck and the Aeroad CFR.
• In women’s racing Marlen Reusser and a Liane Lippert double gave the Aeroad CFR three wins at the Giro D’Italia with Movistar. Plus Marlen Reusser won the Tour de Suisse, Puck Pieterse won La Fleche Wallonne, and many of our female riders won national championships including Millie Couzens (UK), Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Poland) and Sara Martin (Spain).
• For those who prefer their road riding a little less competitive, the new Endurace:ONfly took Canyon’s learnings about high-performance racing and added the new, superlight TQ motor and battery to provide a 40 Nm of power to boost up hills, winning a 2025 iF Design Award for its innovative, boundary-pushing design.
• Some other awards worth highlighting include the Aeroad winning Road Bike of the Year and Canyon winning the E-Road Bike Brand of the Year in the Rennrad-News User Awards 2025, the Aeroad and the Ultimate taking the two top spots in Road.cc’s best money-no-object superbikes list, and the Endurace CF 7 taking top place in Velomotion’s entry-level road bike test.

• In the Men’s Triathlon World Championships Sam Laidlow once again threw down an incredible bike leg, claiming the fastest split time on the Speedmax CFR, completing the hilly 180 km Nice course with an average speed of 40.13 km/h. What's more, according to Slowtwitch's survey, Canyon's Speedmax also won the World Championships popularity count with almost a quarter of the competitors riding Canyon's dedicated triathlon machine.
• In short distance triathlon, Hayden Wilde is on course to wrap up the T100 overall title after winning five rounds so far, and Kat Matthews won the Ironman Pro Series Title for the second year in a row, proving the versatility and consistency of the Speedmax CFR over both long and short courses.
• Taking the triathlon performance DNA and aero credentials and making the bike UCI compliant, Canyon’s Speedmax TT bike demonstrated the same consistency as its triathlon counterpart thanks to Marlen Reusser, Zoe Bäckstedt and Paula Ostiz, who won Elite, U23 and Junior gold respectively at the Time Trial World Championships in Rwanda.
• And for the third variation of the Speedmax, it was the Speedmax CFR Track bike that claimed two golds at the Track World Championships in October, following wins for Team Denmark Men in the Team Pursuit and Spanish rider Albert Torres in the Omnium.

• Canyon athlete Rosa Klöser had a real breakthrough season, rarely finding herself off the podium. She scored wins with the Grail CFR at the UCI’s Eislek Gravel Luxembourg and Hegau Gravel Race, and The Rift, Core, Lauf Gravel Worlds, Gravel DM, and Ranxo Gravel to win the Gravel Earth Series overall.

• At Unbound Heather Jackson laid down an incredible performance to win the 350-mile XL Race. Tiff Cromwell doubled down on that success with a win in the Unbound 100-miler, both on the Grail CFR.

• Also notching up the win count on the Grail CFR were Peter Stetina (Grasshopper Low Gap, Rock Cobbler, Lost & Found), and Petr Vakoc (Gralloch, Czech National Champs)

• On the product side of things though, it was the Canyon Grizl that was new for 2025. This adventure bike was one of Canyon’s stand-out product introductions of the year, coming in two flavours, the Grizl OG version and the Grizl Escape version, including options with ECLIPS lighting, RIFT suspension and a Full Mounty cockpit design, depending on your type of adventure. The new Grizl won high praise from esteemed magazines and websites like TOUR Magazin, Bike Magazin, Bike-X, VeloNews, Bikeradar, Gran Fondo and Off-Road.cc after it launched in June.  

While Canyon’s urban bikes aren’t made for racing – except perhaps for a quick sprint to beat the traffic lights – the idea of performance is still inherent here too. Outside of racing, Canyon calls this ‘democratised performance’. The idea is that it’s not just elite professionals who can ride with a performance mindset. Whether you’re counting your commutes, logging your mileage, looking to shed a few pounds or trying to beat a PB, performance comes in many different guises. And so do the bikes that power those performances. This year Canyon introduced the Citylite family and a new version of the Pathlite:ON SUV in its urban and recreation category, winning awards from Imtest and Nimms-Rad in the process.

To wrap up a year of incredible performances it would be remiss not to mention the Design & Innovation Awards given to Canyon's new PACE Bar, Stingr and Disruptr helmets and Tempr shoes. Plus Canyon was rated as the best price/performance brand, best on customer service by MTB-News readers, and the most recommended road bike brand and gravel bike brand by Rennard-News.

So, whatever category you’re looking at, whether it’s a bike for a professional athlete, an aspiring athlete, or a cycling commuter, you can be sure that Canyon is taking everything it knows about performance and distilling that down into a performance package to suit you.

• If you’re interested to dive deeper into the tech behind 2025 pro sports wins or product introductions, drop us a line – we’d be happy to discuss arranging an interview.
• The nine World Champions on Canyon in 2025 are: Mathieu van der Poel (Men's Elite Cyclocross), Tibor del Grosso (Men's U23 Cyclocross), Zoe Bäckstedt (Women's U23 Cyclocross), Jenny Rissveds (Women's Elite XCO), Team Denmark (Men's Elite Team Pursuit), Albert Torres (Men's Elite Omnium), Marlen Reusser (Women's Elite ITT), Zoe Bäckstedt (Women's U23 ITT), Paula Ostiz (Women's Junior Road Race)