| Venue: | Heusden-Zolder, Belgium |
| Date: | 30–31 January 2016 |
| Events: | 5 |
| Previous: | 2015 |
| Next: | 2017 |
The 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships was the World Championship for cyclo-cross for the season 2015–16. It was held in Heusden-Zolder in Belgium on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31 January 2016. The championships featured five events, in addition to the men's and women's elite races there was a U23 men's and junior men's races, and for the first time, a U23 women's race.
See main article: List of cyclists at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.
Almost six years since the first allegations of “mechanical doping” in cycling the UCI, during the Women's under-23 race, for the first time in cycling history found evidence of technological fraud when they checked the bicycle of Femke Van den Driessche. The UCI had been testing a new detection system. The offence carries a minimum six-month suspension and a fine of between 20,000 and 200,000 Swiss francs.[1]
| Men's events | |||||||||
| Men's elite race[2] | 1h 05' 52" | +5" | +35" | ||||||
| Men's under-23 race[3] | 51' 18" | +1" | +5" | ||||||
| Men's junior race[4] | 43' 05" | + 35" | + 1' 00" | ||||||
| Women's events | |||||||||
| Women's elite race[5] | 41' 03" | + 14" | + 24" | ||||||
| Women's under-23 race[6] | 41' 34" | + 35" | + 47" | ||||||
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